伊莎贝拉·塞基亚罗利(凯特琳·坎宁安)
家乡:康涅狄格州米尔福德.
主要:护理
引人注目的活动/成就:领导, First-Year Nursing Seminar; Women’s Club Water Polo (co-president and captain senior year); 校园 Activities Board (CAB); PULSE; 4Boston; Appalachian Volunteers Program; Sigma Theta Tau international honor society of nursing; member, Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit honor society; Carol A. Ghiloni Oncology Student Nurse Fellow at Mass General Hospital.
导师: Sheila Tucker (Connell School); Kerry Reardon (Connell School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital); Lucy Shippee (Mass General Hospital).
毕业后的计划: Will take the NCLEX licensure exam this summer and hopes to work as an adult oncology or pediatrics nurse in the Connecticut/New York area.
Secchiaroli’s interest in health care is personal—her father is immunosuppressed and lives with chronic illness—and she has seen the emotional as well as physical impact that chronic illness, 一般的疾病, 对整个人有什么影响. She was drawn to a career in nursing because it combined her interest in working with people with her love for science. But BC has gone beyond her expectations—not only training her to become a compassionate and skilled nurse, but providing opportunities for personal growth through service, 指导, 还有团队运动.
BC对你的生活有何影响?
What originally drew me to BC was this idea of educating the whole person. The Jesuit values really spoke to me, as well as the service component. 另一件事是强调反思. That makes me pause and do things with intention in a way that I never would've. I've undergone the most emotional, spiritual, personal, academic growth of my entire life.
How have you incorporated service into your BC experience?
我试着每年都去服兵役. It's hard to remain continuous in a service commitment because of my schedule with clinical and other commitments. I did Appa freshman year at the Cristo Rey 社区 Center in Lansing, Mich. 这需要大量的清理工作, 组织, 每天早晨供应早餐, 在食品储藏室帮忙. I also did 4Boston at Sister Mary Hart afterschool program in Roxbury. 我修了两门PULSE选修课, as a mentor for a middle schooler through the Harlem Lacrosse afterschool program, 并在圣. Francis House foot clinic conducted by Boston Healthcare for the Homeless. 那是一次很好的经历. 以这种方式为人们服务是非常有益的. But even more so, I found myself having fun and listening to stories. It's allowed me to engage with vulnerable populations that you don't come into contact with when you're on BC's campus. Leaning into all those opportunities has made me grow and mature.
你最喜欢的临床经历是什么?
My favorite was my Adult Health II clinical at Brigham and Women’s. [CSON adjunct faculty member and BWH nurse] Kerry Reardon really helped me grow a lot through that clinical. 一开始，我很犹豫和紧张. But she did such a good job of pushing me out of my comfort zone. I was able to hone my critical thinking skills and develop those strong leadership skills that I needed. 这让我从护士的角度来看待自己. On the other hand, she also called us out when we didn't know things. And that's really important because, as a nurse, you need to know your limits. That's one of the biggest things I learned: It's okay to ask questions. They want you to recognize that you’re a novice and have the humility to say ‘I don't know everything.’
Talk about the important place mentorship—such as being a leader in the First-Year Nursing Seminar—has had in your BC experience.
这对我来说很重要, 我持有的价值, 投资于你所在的社区吗. I found that seminar to be so incredibly beneficial my first year, so I want to give back to it. 我在大二的时候加入了大学活动委员会. What I love about CAB is you're surrounded by people who deeply care about BC and want to invest their time in making it a fun and welcoming environment. This year, I was the assistant director to the mentorship programming team. We selected a group of 25 freshmen and integrated them into CAB and welcomed them into this community. We are also mentors and friends who are there to help them simply adjust to college. Giving back and investing in your community is really important.
What experiences at BC had the most significant impact on you?
CAB has been one of the most formative experiences I've had at BC. 我还想说水球. I found that I needed to have outlets outside of nursing, and water polo has been one of my favorite things at BC. 我们是一个非常特别的团队. 在来BC之前，我没有玩过水球, 但我从五岁起就是一名竞技游泳运动员. It's my little sisterhood that I've been able to be a part of all four years. Then I got the opportunity to lead it, which was incredibly rewarding. 去年, we won our regional championship in double overtime and our semi-final game in double overtime. 然后我们去了阿拉巴马州的亨茨维尔.赢得全国冠军. It's really rewarding to work together towards a common goal.
毕业后你最想念的是什么?
I've made the most incredible relationships of my life at BC—lifelong friendships and relationships. But it's the one-off people that you meet in a club, or in your class. I will miss walking through campus and seeing them and saying hello. 这是一次特别的经历. It’s that whole concept of Aristotle's idea of friends of the good—you learn it in your intro to philosophy classes or your Perspectives class. 我在BC发现了很多优秀的人. 很明显, 我很难过，一切都结束了, but the overwhelming feeling I have is gratitude that I've come here. 太棒了.
Kathleen Sullivan | University Communications | May 2023