CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) — It’s Draft Day at Chesapeake Regional Healthcare, and nothing could prepare the group of future nurses as staff members shaking pom-poms cheered them on as they made their way down a blue carpet.
“This is the coolest thing. I love the celebration time we got coming in,” said nurse Kajarah Pettway, a recent newcomer to the area who came looking for a job in the medical surgical unit.
“We were kind of told it was going to be kind of like, set up like a football draft, and it kind of is,” said Hope Marshall, a nursing student from ECPI…