Wants to give premature babies a fighting chance

Tayler Lee speaks to the keystone heights Rotary Club on June 22.

BY DAN HILDEBRAN

Monitor Editor

KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— Tayler Lee, the winner of the Keystone Heights Rotary Club Service Scholarship, told the club during its June 22 meeting that she wants to help children in the same way that health care providers helped her after her birth.

“Nursing has always been what I wanted to do with my life,” she told the club.  “After I was born, I spent eight weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit.  Knowing that those nurses worked tirelessly to keep me alive, it has always been an influence on deciding what I wanted to do in my life.”

The Keystone Heights High School graduate added that she plans to start her journey at North Florida Technical College in Starke, ultimately becoming a labor and delivery nurse practitioner.

Lee also said that community service has been a part of her life throughout high school, noting that while at KHHS, she logged 200 hours of community service. She also served as president of the National Technical Honor Society.