MSN Alumni Stephens Finalist for "Remarkable Woman" After Surviving Life Threatening Car Crash
MSN'19 Alumni Alketa Stephens was recently featured in a CBS17 news story as a finalist from our region for the Remarkable Woman Award. The award is given to a woman making a difference in her community. A total of 136 entries were narrowed down to four and Alketa is the first of the four finalists. If she wins locally then she will get a trip to New York to be on the Mel Robbins Show.
Alketa traveled the world to help others and as a DUSON student she participated in global clinical immersions. And now she's fighting to regain her own life after a hit-and-run crash just days after graduating from DUSON with her MSN. She took the brunt of the impact and was in coma for nearly three months. Doctors said there was a slim chance she would survive. But one day, she woke up and her support from family and friends, including Anne Derouin, MSN Program Director, helps her get through painstaking physical and speech therapy.