Colleges prepare future nurses with new teaching approach during pandemic By: Cesar Rodriguez and last updated 2020-12-16 14:57:00-05 Jasmin Lara does not consider herself a hero. She is a mom, doing something extraordinary to protect what is most precious in the world. âMy oldest, Alexander, heâs 7 now,â Lara said. âWhen he was a toddler, he had a lot of respiratory infections. I was constantly in the emergency room with him. Turns out he had enlarged tonsils.â This moment motivated her to do something she had never thought of accomplishing: she enrolled in college to become a nurse and help her child.