I earned my registered nurse license in Summer of 2021. I started my nursing career with the University of Washington Medical Center by going through the Northwest Perioperative Consortium as part of the Northwest Hospital team. I stayed in the operating room of Northwest Hospital for 1 year before then transferring to the affiliated Outpatient Surgical Center.

I have minimal experience in the role of scrub, mentor our new hires when the opportunity arises, and actively work as a circulator and charge nurse. I have experience in a variety of specialties including eyes, sports-med, podiatry, general, urology, gynecology, ortho, robotics, and nuero-spine.

I earned my medical assistant in phlebotomy certification in Summer of 2017. I worked as a phlebotomist for Bloodworks Northwest for the following 4 years, as I made my way through nursing school. This position furthered my experience in patient care and taught me additional skills, such as vein location and selection. I also worked as a mentor and as training assistant for new hires.

In this role I registered and screened donors; drew, processed, and shipped various blood components; and provided donor reaction care.

I earned my national Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) certification in Spring of 2016. I then got hired by American Medical Response, where I worked for 3 months in the summer of 2016. I learned a lot in this position, especially about myself, my goals, and my newfound interest in healthcare. Ultimately, I realized that this wasn’t what I wanted to do with my life, and I decided to leave my position to go back to school on my way to become a nurse.

While in this role I provided basic life support care for patients, administered medications, documented medical history and interventions, provided handoff report to ER nurses, and drove the ambulance.

Additionally, I worked with the EMT training program at Everett College, where I had taken my course, to be a patient for the final exams of cohorts after my own.