Thank you very much for the opportunity to write a letter regarding my daughter, Kaitlyn Chalmers (URID: 44566345.) Like the parents of all applicants to University of Richmond, I am very proud of Kaitlyn’s academic accomplishments throughout her years of school. I have the scrapbooks full of photos and certificates from award ceremonies, as well as numerous trophies and plaques from dance competitions, science fairs, National History Day, and Academic Excellence ceremonies. While all of these milestones have been truly memorable, and made me proud of her success, it is her character and personality traits that make me confident she will excel at the University of Richmond.
Kaitlyn has always been an independent child. I can still remember
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On March 6, 2016, Kaitlyn was volunteering for National Honor Society at a local youth baseball tournament when a gust of wind dropped a 20’x15’ wooden sign on her. This resulted in multiple fractures of her T6 in her back. Kaitlyn, who just two weeks prior had been completing leaps and turns in her dance solo at competition, needed assistance from two adults to sit up in the hospital bed, and had to use a medical bedside toilet since she was in too much pain to walk. After a week in the hospital, she was transferred to a rehab hospital for inpatient OT & PT, as she learned to walk and take care of her daily needs. Kaitlyn was the youngest patient in the rehab hospital (by about 60+ years!) At daily occupational therapy, she quickly made friends with an elderly cancer patient, and instead of focusing on her own pain, she kept encouraging the patient to keep going and not give up. It was St. Patrick’s Day while she was still in rehab, and so she made shamrocks for all of the patients’ doors to bring cheer to the sterile environment, and walked with her walker door to door to wish everyone a Happy St. Patrick’s Day. While her classmates were enjoying spring break at the beach, she endured grueling physical therapy sessions learning how to stand up straight again, walk with her walker, and tackle going up and down stairs again. She was determined to go home. After a full week, we did get to return home and begin outpatient therapy
I have attached my Howard University Freshman Scholarship (HUFS) appeal with this letter for your
On February 14th I spent a day doing something I never thought I would do in a million years, I went to hospice. I always thought I would hate hospice, but I actually didn’t mind it too much, it isn’t a job I see myself doing in the future but it is a job that I understand why people do it and why they enjoy it. During this observation I was touched by how much these nurses really seem to care for each of the patients that they have.
Suzanne Lucas knows we are smart enough to run our paper through a spell check. There are so many spell checkers in this era, that there is no excuse in having such small grammars errors that even a third grader should know not to make. We are adults now, we need to know that every sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a period. The only reason a person can be making this type of error is when they do not care about getting their point across. The example provided by Lucas made me focus in his/her errors rather than me focusing on the information he/she was providing. I had to read it twice to focus on what he was saying, not because I could not understand but because I was in shock of his errors. The way he delivers the letter,
I am a current High Point University student writing to you in support of Ms. Jacqueline Baker and her ambition to attend High Point University to study Elementary Education. I believe that she has the skillset to become a future High Point University Panther.
In spite of what she has been faced with, she has always had a positive attitude and outlook. She is a woman of strong faith, which I believe has played a big part in getting her through the challenges she has faced. Chronic illness not only affects the patient, but all members of the family as well. For her, it has been a challenge with the expense it has incurred for her. She has health insurance, but some of the medications that she is on are very expensive. In the beginning of her illness, it placed more of a financial strain on her. She was divorced and did not have the best health insurance coverage to begin with. She remarried a couple of years ago and now has better health care insurance through her husband. Not being able to pay for your health care during a difficult time is very hard to deal with. As the nurse, we can offer referrals to agencies that may be able to offer some assistance. Psychosocial care should be incorporated into the routine care of patients with cancer (Jacobsen & Wagner, 2012). Dealing with a chronic illness can also have emotional effects on the patient, as well as other family members. Depression is a commonly incurred condition that coincides with cancer, which can lead to other health and social issues. It is of great importance to provide emotional support to the patient and their family members. As the nurse, we can offer support groups to the patient and
Through the traumatic experience of my father’s illness, a positive and optimistic perspective of commitment to nursing career evolved. My journey of becoming a nurse and commitment of shining a bright light on another individual life has been my life long goal. I moved to the United States in early 1980 and with God help and guidance, I followed the nursing career and promised to make a small difference. During my first years as a nursing student, I took a part-time volunteered position as a candy-stripe and a part-time position as a nurse aid in a community hospital to provide relief and support to hospital staffs. I rocked and read poems for babies in the nursery, as a nurse aid I assist nurses with vital signs, blood pressures, fill ice pitchers in patient rooms, runs specimens to labs and sit with patients in the room and feed patients. I still volunteer in my hospital oncology department and the underserved and homeless clinics with several Emory physicians at the Good Samaritan Health Center, Mercy Care and National AIDS Education and Services for Minorities (NAESM) all in Fulton County, Ga, because it gave me fulfillment and appreciative of life
When I was 15, my grandmother suffered from a severe stroke and was advised to go to a rehabilitation center. At that time I had not ever heard of the profession called occupational therapy. Upon visiting my grandmother, I had the opportunity to witness several health care professionals working together to help rehabilitate her. I have always wanted to engage in a career in which I could attribute to helping people, and at first I thought physical therapy would best compliment my natural abilities but then I encountered the occupational therapist. So as I watched her work with my grandmother diligently I realized that I had found exactly what I was looking for.
I need this scholarship to achieve my goals and most importantly to make my family proud. My family did not get this chance that you are giving me so I am not just doing this for me, I am also doing this for them. I already have all the support from all of my family and all of my friends, but that alone is not enough to conquer my dreams, and to prove all the people that have doubted me that they were wrong. I hope that this organization can help me reach my goals, and to most importantly make them become a reality. I want to look back onto my life and know that this scholarship, and college helped me to be the man I will be. I hope you accept me into your college and most importantly giving me this
child who was not expected to live, take her first steps after weeks of therapy. The journey to reach my
I found a job as CNA for the patient who had disabilities. One patient in particular changed the direction of my life and started me thinking about working in medicine. I took care of an older woman who was unable to ambulate due to her diagnosis of stroke. She experienced chronic weakness of bilateral lower extremity so I supported her with my arms to steady her. When I looked into her eyes, I could feel her saying, “you truly care about me, understand me, and thank you for taking the time to sense my expression and desire.” That’s the care all of us have deep inside, where our motives no longer become self-seeking but other-seeking. This care has the power to exponentially change that person’s life and the lives of others. It is true that other patients helped me decide to go into medicine, but Stacy had the biggest impact in my
I was then introduced to a patient who was in isolation. Her legs were immovable and were crossed in a very uncomfortable position. I wish I could’ve done something so that her legs could be in a more comfortable position, but all I could do was observe and get her a cup of ice cold water to drink. During this clinical observation, I didn’t get to see much but overall, it was a good experience. It made me realize what it was like to be in a hospital setting and what it meant to be a nurse. Seeing how the patients were still able to smile through all the pain they went through, it made me want to become a nurse even more because I would also like to make my patients happy. If I could do one thing differently during this clinical observation, I wish I didn’t ask my senior nurse about what externships she took and instead, I wished I asked her more questions about the patients in order to gain more information about
My intense passion for learning has shifted my life in a new and positive direction. I feel that my personal experiences and challenges have served as a basis for growth and preparation for a life of helping others. This is why I have worked so hard to complete my undergraduate education despite my many responsibilities. I believe that this makes me a great candidate for this program. I am a diligent and attentive person who deeply cares for others in need. I feel that everything that has brought me to where I am today has shaped my life and will make me a great social worker. I want to thank you very much for considering my application for the master of social work program.
My father had broken his pelvis in 4 places. He looked helpless and miserable, something I had never seen until that day. Over time, he learned how to use his lower body again. With the help of my family and the support of his friends, my dad started to get better. The doctors said he would never be able to walk again, but within three months of living in his parents’ house in a hospital bed, being taken care of like a child, he gained back his strength and is better than before. Besides the emotional trauma this incident left on my family, it’s physically like the accident never even happened.
At the age of 36, mom decided to return to college to obtain her nursing degree. This wasn’t a hard decision for her to make. In April before she enrolled in school, my great grandmother passed away. This major dilemma played a major role in mom’s return to school. She had taken care of my great grandmother for months before she passed away, and decided that she wanted to make an impact on the lives of geriatrics.
...one hospital I understood that she was lucky, because she had no other damages except 3 broken ribs and many bruises all over her body.