One of my most favorite academic memory was creating a research group with three of my friends. We named it Auscibi for no particular reason, and our research plan was to develop a prototype of a pacemaker powered by the body’s energy instead of a lithium battery. I loved that group because I loved what we did. I loved traveling, I loved researching, I loved being behind the scenes on the presentation we created. It was the most fun, and fulfilling thing I have ever been apart of, and it brought me to the realization that I wanted to go into a career that surrounds research.
We created the group during our junior year of high school. At the same time of creating this group, I was also in an Anatomy and Physiology class that’s main motive of learning was researching and presenting projects on different ideas and topics in medicine. At the end of the year, we were to present an overall topic for the class. For the longest time, I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I pondered on whether I wanted to do viruses, or cancers, or diseases. I just didn’t have the motivation or drive for doing full-blown research on every topic I went through. That is until something very really hit close to home, and I finally found something I was passionate about: Racism in Healthcare. This topic and issue is so broad and information-filled, and I found myself wanting to learn more and more about it.
After finishing my research and presenting my project, I realized that this was my calling and passion. I found a particular interest in the reproductive, maternal, and neonatal aspect of the issue. Nursing has many broad aspects and many different fields that allows a person to surround their passion with one goal or task. My goal for my career is to educate and find solutions on the problem relating to racism in healthcare, specifically racism issues that affects the maternal aspect of healthcare. I am a very diverse person, I love having diversity in my life, which is why I don’t want to limit my mission and career to just one area in nursing, but I want to expand and visit every area weather it’s clinical nursing, public health nursing, travel nursing, being a case manager or in healthcare informatics, I want to be able to experience it all and have an impression in every field.
