Tiffany Owens
2007-2008 Winner | Master’s Degree
Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Tiffany currently lives in Edwardsville, Illinois to be close to Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, where she is currently a graduate student pursuing her MSN in Anesthesia.
From 1998-1999, she lived in New Zealand on a student visa. She worked as a CNA at a pediatric hospital for 4 years, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in MICU for 1 year, at Ranken Jordan Pediatric Hospital consecutively as RN for 1 year (as CNA for 4 years), and traveled California and Missouri as a travel nurse working in various ICU's for 1 year. In 2004, she graduated from University of Missouri-St. Louis with a BSN. Her expected graduation date from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville is December 2008.
In the future she plans to do medical missions and work in the rural Midwest region post graduation. Traveling and anesthesia are her passions!
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