Graduating Student Profile 2012 - Reumilda correia

I wanted to be a nurse because I just really care for people. It comes very naturally. I really like to be there for people and just be a good friend and taking care of people has always been a part of me, I say my "caring genes" I have, of course, done clinicals, I've done classes, I've made friends, I've made friends with the teachers. I am actually currently a new member of a diversity group where were trying to spread the word and importance of diversity. I have a nursing ambassador. A nursing ambassador basically invites perspective students into the school, and we try and give them opinions from seniors about time management, and we're just, i guess you could say, mentor. My experience in a Living/Learning community was a very positive one. It was definitely a motivator because you'd have friends in your classes, that while watching T.V., they're still in the books, and they're studying for the tests coming up. I found it very import to say "ok, let me take out my books and start studying as well". The nursing program, they did tell us at the very beginning, "before you graduate, you're definitely gonna see how everything in cyclical, and all the information will touch each other and come back around. When I first started, I really didn't understand what that meant, but now as a graduating senior, I can definitely see what they meant. All the information has come back around to me, and I feel so much more enabled to critical think and try and understand a patient scenario, and I definitely feel like the school has provided that for me.