Follow Our Students
Follow three of our students over the course of their training at UNE’s School of Nurse Anesthesia. Click on the photos to hear Jessica, Rozanna and Jake narrate their experiences during various stages of the program.
Jessica McCaleb
I am a native of Tennessee and the youngest member of the Class of 2009. I graduated from the University of Tennessee in 2005 with a BSN and a minor in Spanish. Before entering anesthesia school, I worked as an ICU nurse in the level one trauma unit at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. My passions (other than anesthesia!) are traveling, medical missions, foreign languages, creative photography, waterskiing, and since moving to Maine - snowskiing!
Rozanna Alperovich
When I was 16 I moved to Iowa City with my mother from Russia, where I learned English and graduated from high school. I became an RN in 2003 by completing an ADN program, and received a BSN from the University of Massachusetts in Boston. Prior to the Nurse Anesthesia school I worked in the emergency department and in the cardiothoracic surgery ICU in Boston. I am truly enjoying nurse anesthesia program, it has the best of my favorite worlds: the critical care of the ICU and the dynamic variety (as well as the adrenaline rush) of the emergency room.
Jacob Ricks
I am from southeastern Idaho. I am married and have a two year old son. I worked as a Registered Nurse in Medical/Surgical Intensive Care for two years prior to attending nurse anesthesia school.
