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Pulse 2010
A look back
Brenda Myrick shares her passion and experience with colleagues everyday at Pitt County Memorial Hospital.
Brenda
Myrick By Crystal Baity Her grandmother knew before Brenda Myrick recognized it. She should go to nursing school. “She was right,” Myrick said. When Myrick first arrived at ECU in 1977, she explored psychology and speech language pathology before taking a biology course that she really enjoyed. She entered Pitt Community College, where she earned an associate’s degree in nursing and became a registered nurse. “After completing the associate degree program at PCC, I realized nursing
A PIRATE PAYS IT FORWARD
was the right choice for me,” said Myrick, who returned to ECU in 1991 to advance her nursing career when her son, Patrick, was three. With the support and encouragement of her grandmother, Evelyn Boone, her mother Nellie Darden, her three sisters and her son, now a 20-year-old student-athlete at Washburn University, Myrick graduated with a bachelor’s of nursing degree in 1992. Now a graduate student in ECU nursing’s leadership concentration, Myrick loves her courses and instructors although there was an initial adjustment after 18 years away from the classroom. “All my courses are online. It is totally different from being in a