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I was fortunate enough to be selected to be in the
inaugural class of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing
I was hopeful and excited when I got into the program and thought I knew what it was going to be about
but it was transformational
changed my life in so many ways and how I saw the world
I was working as a Clinical Oncology Nurse and
had many frustrations with the system and we were providing excellent care
to our patients but there are many systems issues
that made it difficult for patients to be insured, to get medication
There are just layers of bureaucracy sometimes that impact their care
I feel like I went into school a little bit
dreamy and hopeful and then the program helped
give me a process or a way to see through it
and so the view is completely different out in the field
and that I now have the tools to not be afraid of what I'm
seeing or to make gross errors in thinking that
I'm the expert and I know how you should do things
so the school has really tempered that sort of zealousness that you might have
that "we're the expert" or "we know better"
I was incredibly fortunate that a position was posted at UC Davis
for a Nursing and Quality Coordinator in a network of cancer centers that affiliate
with UC Davis
so that it was a brand new position, an opportunity to make changes in the
quality of care in cancer centers
in the rural community
Nurses are in a
unique and necessarial being leaders
in that they're the one health care provider
that takes care of the patient on the big picture
their concern for that patient returning to their life in the best manner
possible
so that nurse knows all the ins and outs and the patient
they know the system they're like the connection point
if that connecting point is not working as a leader
it can be difficult to accomplish what needs to be done
the school nurse was personal it wasn't just an opportunity to
fill your head with academic information, it was about personal transformation
and that's how we can become leaders in the future.