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Sarah
Chen
sarah
.
chen
.
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@
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· (206) 555-0147 · 2842
Brooklyn
Avenue
,
Seattle
,
WA
98122
University
of
Washington
School
of
Nursing
·
Bachelor
of
Science
in
Nursing
·
Fall
2027
The
first
time
I
understood
what
it
meant
to
truly
nurse
another
human
being
,
I
was
holding
the
hand
of
a
woman
who
did
not
speak
my
language
.
It
was
3:00
a
.
m
.
in
the
emergency
department
at
Harborview
Medical
Center
,
where
I
had
volunteered
every
Saturday
for
the
past
eight
months
.
Mrs
.
Alvarez
had
arrived
with
abdominal
pain
,
confused
and
frightened
,
and
because
the
interpreter
phone
was
broken
,
we
had
no
way
to
explain
the
CT
scan
to
her
.
I
held
her
hand
while
the
nurse
practitioner
drew
diagrams
on
a
paper
towel
,
and
I
watched
Mrs
.
Alvarez
'
s
breathing
slow
from
panicked
gasps
to
steady
rhythm
not
because
we
had
fixed
the
language
barrier
,
but
because
someone
had
stayed
.
That
moment
crystallized
for
me
what
I
had
been
circling
for
two
years
:
nursing
is
not
the
performance
of
tasks
in
a
patient
'
s
proximity
.
It
is
the
choice
to
remain
present
in
uncertainty
,
to
advocate
when
words
fail
,
and
to
translate
fear
into
trust
through
competence
and
compassion
.
My
path
toward
nursing
began
in
the
aftermath
of
my
grandmother
'
s
stroke
.
I
was
seventeen
,
and
I
watched
the
rehabilitation
nurses
at
Swedish
Medical
Center
not
only
manage
her
feeding
tube
and
range
-
of
-
motion
exercises
but
also
notice
when
she
was
embarrassed
to
ask
for
a
bedpan
,
when
she
missed
her
garden
,
when
her
silence
meant
pain
rather
than
fatigue
.
They
adjusted
pillows
,
yes
,
but
they
also
adjusted
their
expectations
,
meeting
her
where
she
was
each
morning
rather
than
where
the
chart
said
she
should
be
.
I
began
visiting
the
unit
after
school
,
not
because
I
had
clinical
skills
to
offer
,
but
because
I
wanted
to
understand
how
people
learned
to
see
patients
so
completely
.
The
nurses
there
taught
me
that
observation
is
a
discipline
:
the
way
a
patient
'
s
family
hovers
near
the
door
,
the
way
a
blood
pressure
cuff
leaves
a
faint
bruise
,
the
way
someone
rearranges
their
blanket
before
bad
news
.
These
details
are
data
.
They
inform
care
as
much
as
any
vital
sign
.
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After
my
grandmother
'
s
discharge
,
I
enrolled
in
a
Certified
Nursing
Assistant
program
through
the
Washington
State
Board
of
Nursing
,
earning
my
license
in
June
2023.
For
the
past
eighteen
months
,
I
have
worked
the
evening
shift
at
Pacific
Gardens
Skilled
Nursing
Facility
in
Renton
,
caring
for
twenty
-
two
residents
on
a
long
-
term
rehabilitation
and
dementia
unit
.
The
work
is
physically
demanding
and
emotionally
intricate
.
I
have
learned
to
read
nonverbal
cues
when
aphasia
steals
speech
,
to
redirect
agitation
without
restraint
,
and
to
maintain
dignity
during
the
most
intimate
tasks
.
Last
winter
,
I
noticed
that
a
resident
with
end
-
stage
Parkinson
'
s
disease
was
losing
weight
not
because
he
refused
meals
,
but
because
his
tremors
made
self
-
feeding
exhausting
.
I
collaborated
with
the
occupational
therapist
to
introduce
weighted
utensils
and
adjusted
meal
timing
to
coincide
with
his
medication
peak
.
He
gained
seven
pounds
in
six
weeks
.
That
small
victory
taught
me
that
nursing
operates
at
the
intersection
of
biology
,
environment
,
and
agency
;
it
requires
creativity
as
much
as
protocol
.
Academically
,
I
have
prepared
for
the
rigor
of
the
BSN
curriculum
by
completing
prerequisites
at
Seattle
Central
College
with
a
cumulative
GPA
of
3.87.
Anatomy
and
Physiology
challenged
me
to
think
in
systems
rather
than
symptoms
,
while
Microbiology
revealed
the
invisible
ecosystems
that
shape
human
health
.
I
am
particularly
drawn
to
the
School
of
Nursing
'
s
emphasis
on
population
health
and
its
partnerships
with
community
clinics
in
King
County
'
s
underserved
neighborhoods
.
My
volunteer
work
with
the
Seattle
Free
Clinic
'
s
mobile
vaccination
unit
exposed
me
to
the
structural
barriers
that
prevent
access
to
care
:
transportation
,
language
,
insurance
labyrinth
,
and
historical
distrust
.
I
saw
how
a
nurse
'
s
cultural
humility
could
rebuild
bridges
that
no
amount
of
funding
could
buy
.
I
want
to
develop
that
capacity
deliberately
,
through
coursework
in
community
-
based
care
and
eventually
through
the
accelerated
public
health
nursing
certificate
the
program
offers
.
Beyond
technical
competence
,
I
bring
to
nursing
a
capacity
for
emotional
regulation
and
interdisciplinary
communication
that
I
have
honed
in
high
-
stakes
environments
.
As
a
CNA
,
I
am
often
the
first
to
notice
changes
in
a
resident
'
s
condition
and
the
liaison
between
families
and
nursing
staff
.
I
have
delivered
difficult
updates
to
adult
children
who
live
across
the
country
,
translated
physician
orders
into
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plain
language
for
frightened
spouses
,
and
mediated
conflicts
between
roommates
whose
dementia
magnifies
personality
differences
.
These
conversations
require
humility
.
I
have
learned
to
say
, "
I
don
'
t
know
,
but
I
will
find
out
,"
and
to
follow
through
.
I
have
learned
that
advocacy
sometimes
means
stopping
a
procedure
to
ask
for
clarification
,
or
paging
a
provider
at
midnight
because
a
gut
instinct
insists
something
has
shifted
.
The
UW
School
of
Nursing
'
s
focus
on
leadership
and
clinical
reasoning
resonates
with
my
belief
that
the
strongest
nurses
are
not
those
who
know
every
answer
,
but
those
who
know
how
to
think
when
the
answer
is
unclear
.
I
am
applying
to
the
University
of
Washington
because
its
mission
to
advance
nursing
science
while
serving
vulnerable
populations
mirrors
my
own
values
.
The
simulation
labs
,
the
early
clinical
immersion
,
and
the
global
health
electives
would
equip
me
to
practice
not
only
in
Seattle
'
s
world
-
class
hospitals
but
also
,
eventually
,
in
rural
Washington
clinics
where
provider
shortages
are
acute
.
My
goal
is
to
become
a
family
nurse
practitioner
with
a
focus
on
geriatric
and
palliative
care
,
extending
the
compassion
I
learned
at
my
grandmother
'
s
bedside
to
entire
communities
facing
aging
and
loss
.
Nursing
is
not
a
default
career
for
someone
who
likes
science
or
who
wants
to
help
people
.
It
is
a
specific
discipline
with
its
own
ethics
,
its
own
epistemology
,
its
own
courage
.
I
am
ready
to
enter
that
discipline
not
because
I
am
already
a
nurse
,
but
because
I
have
spent
years
learning
what
nursing
demands
—
and
I
am
prepared
to
meet
it
.
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