{"id":4379,"date":"2019-04-12T15:26:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T19:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=4379"},"modified":"2019-04-12T15:26:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T19:26:57","slug":"spotlight-on-students-meet-vnso-president-caitlin-obren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/spotlight-on-students-meet-vnso-president-caitlin-obren.php","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Students: Meet VNSO President Caitlin Obren"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Vet Gazette continues its \u201cSpotlight on Students\u201d feature this week by focusing on Caitlin Obren, a junior in the Purdue Veterinary Nursing Program<\/a>. Caitlin serves as president of the Veterinary Nursing Student Organization (VNSO) and has always loved Purdue University. Even as a child, she dreamed of working in the veterinary field and being a Boilermaker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most\nof Caitlin’s family attended Purdue, which led her to be passionate about being\na Purdue student and dedicating herself to her studies. As a Purdue freshman, Caitlin\nbegan volunteering in Purdue Veterinary Medicine\u2019s oncology service and she\nsaid that\u2019s when she realized she wanted to pursue a career in veterinary\nmedicine.  She said one thing that makes\na PVM education distinctive is that students are able to spend so much time in\nthe hospital perfecting skills. She loves how she and her classmates receive so\nmuch valuable experience before entering the workforce. Caitlin noted that by\nthe end of her fourth year, she will have spent more than 1,300 hours in\nclinical rotations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VNSO President Caitlin Obren (2nd from right) enjoyed being involved in the 2019 PVM Open House<\/a> with her fellow veterinary nursing students.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Caitlin said she appreciates how she has been able to learn about a variety of practice areas, because of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital\u2019s role as a specialty referral hospital. Her experiences with hospital cases have sparked her interest in such areas as physical therapy, emergency and critical care, and oncology. She also said she loves being a veterinary nursing student because the excellent veterinary nursing instructors are so willing to help the students achieve success. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caitlin also explained that as president of VNSO, she has been able to develop better leadership skills.  \u201cI definitely have noticed myself becoming more responsible and a better leader,\u201d Caitlin said, looking back on her term as president. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caitlin\u2019s formative experiences with PVM make her excited about her future career in the veterinary nursing field. She has yet to decide whether to pursue a specific specialty area, and looks forward to starting out in general practice. As she gains work experience, she wants to further develop her skills and interests and possibly pursue a specialty designation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caitlin\u2019s formative experiences with PVM make her excited about her future career in the veterinary nursing field. She has yet to decide whether to pursue a specific specialty area, and looks forward to starting out in general practice. As she gains work experience, she wants to further develop her skills and interests and possibly pursue a specialty designation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,29,42,644],"tags":[1071,26,56,960,959,1018,1072],"class_list":["post-4379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-our-people","category-students","category-veterinary-nursing","tag-caitlin-obren","tag-featured-story","tag-homepage","tag-student-leadership","tag-student-spotlight","tag-veterinary-nursing-class-of-2020","tag-veterinary-nursing-student-organization"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4379"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4434,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions\/4434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}