This week, the 29-year-old got his nursing degree from NYU's Rory Meyers College of Nursing , after finishing an accelerated 15-month program. "He was always compassionate to patients and families," said Nataly Pasklinsky, who's now the director of simulation learning at the NYU nursing school. "I felt inspired by them to become a nurse, so I told them 'I want to be a nurse like you guys,'" he said. But watching the nurses work made the things he was learning "come to life." Now that he's graduated, Baez is getting ready for his licensing boards and hopes to get a nursing job at NYU.

Source: CNN May 22, 2019 18:59 UTC