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Mandy Woodard's Nursing Portfolio


My name is Mandy Woodard and this is my digital portfolio of my experience in the Bachelors of Science in Nursing program at Pacific Lutheran University. I am from Forest Grove, OR where I grew up with my mother (who is also a nurse), father, and older sister (who is currently attending UW PharmD program). As I discuss in my Personal Paper what drew me to the nursing profession is the potential it provides to help others.

Me


Nursing Definition

hygeiaMy Definition of Nursing:
Nursing is the art of caring for a person, family, or community as a whole by promoting, assessing, and improving their physical, mental, social, and spiritual health through use of the nursing process, medical knowledge, technology and therapeutic use of self in collaboration with a health care team.

Future Goals

  • 1 Year Goals: In one year I will be in my Junior II semester of nursing school, I plan to be either still working at my current job as a Communications Officer at Campus Safety, or working as a CNA or Nurse Tech somewhere in Tacoma.
  • 5 Year Goals: In 5 years I will have been out of school for 3 years. Depending on my general life situation after graduation I plan on either volunteering in the Peace Corps or VISTA, or possibly pursuing a residency program in peri-operative nursing. I would like to live and work in Portland, OR.

Quotes:

“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” - Albert Pine

"It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much." -Norman Lear