VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Around 50 Visalia Unified high school students have committed their summer break to work that will give them a competitive advantage in the medical field someday.
Mt. Whitney senior Dayan Moreno Navarrete is part of the district's health sciences linked learning academy.
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She has already finished her 100 hours of volunteer work at Kaweah Delta Medical Center but is still volunteering there Monday through Thursday.
In the hospital's mother-baby unit, she prepares rooms and brings food and water to new mothers.
Occasionally, she even gets to hold the newborn babies.
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Moreno Navarrete says she wanted to be a pediatrician.
But through her volunteer work, she thinks being a nurse will allow her to have an even closer connection with patients.