I am 19 Years old and am from Smyrna, Georgia where my family lives.
My background picture shows my favorite extracurricular activity while attending Whitefield Academy for high school. Every fall sporting season, my two friends (left and right of me) and I were student athletic trainers. We would tend injuries after school before different sporting teams had practice or a game. Our school athletic trainer, Danny, taught the three of us everything we know. He taught us the many different supportive wraps for different injuries as well as how to handle serious injuries such as a heart attack or extreme dehydration. Helping people is what I enjoyed most about this opportunity. I enjoyed being the person athletes would go to in the case of a sprain or cut. Being an athletic trainer all through high school is one aspect that has led me down the medical path for my academic future.
I now attend University of Georgia where I am pre-nursing! I hope to transfer at some point to the GSNU nursing school in Athens, Georgia and become a RN. From there my plan is to obtain a job working in a hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Units or NICU. I chose to pursue this goal after shadowing the Emory and Grady Hospitals. These opportunities not only confirmed my passion to become a nurse, but it also introduced me to the idea of working in a NICU. Visiting this area in each of the hospitals, I saw how helpless the premature and dangerously sick infants were. This drove me to working to give these infants a voice and a fighting chance. I truly believe this is God's purpose for me.