The professor was engaging and even though the class was three hours time seemed to fly. She was not only engaging but showed so much passion for the course that I wanted to take it. It was the end of freshman year and I was in a crisis because I simply had no idea what I wanted to do, so I said to myself, “why not?” The lecture we decided to audit was a Patho course and I was hooked as soon as class started. I was surprised not because of my peer’s response, but of my orientation leaders lack to facilitate the conversation in a more neutral light. However, this was not a problem that simply remained in my first few weeks of college, but the mindset that if you were not doing medicine then you were doing public health followed me until I came across nursing.Ī friend of mine who was thinking about pursuing nursing invited me to sit in on one of their lectures. As everyone went around the circle all I heard was ‘I want to be a doctor.’ This was then followed by someone who said that they assumed that’s how the rest of the circle felt like. We were a group of 12, so I was interested to hear what others wanted to do in the future. I honestly did not know and I assumed that a few people did not know as well. “What is everyone’s perspective major or career track?” The first few questions were aimed at getting to know one another. We had orientation leaders and small group discussion among first-year students. My first week was filled with orientation and getting a feel of the college. My experience may be a little different from my fellow colleagues because I transitioned from Emory College to the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. I knew when I began started at Emory College that I wanted to do something that involved being around people, making a difference, and a change of pace every now and then. The journey to becoming a nurse was rather unconventional for me. I am so glad that I got to do my public health clinical with the AHA, my Emory Nursing peers, and Dr. This has given me a taste of how awesome it is to assess a community, prioritize their health disparities, research the issue, plan outcomes, and see the results that come from these outcomes and the wonderful benefits that follow. It made me realize how productive and beneficial it is to go into a community and provide services based on the needs of the population. I would have never dreamed of this hour group therapy session being so productive, especially with having no experience beforehand. This went on for more than an hour, and I ended up having to stop the session because it went over time.

They concluded that hos job loss created a life experience that allowed him to realize that if he could overcome that, he could overcome anything. When someone said that they lost their job, it instantly created an environment where people supported that individual in realizing what a good learning experience it was. This then created a scenario where they started to support each other. What I found to be even more beneficial was when they started to talk about past life events that were hard for them or things they regretted. When I asked them the question about pausing time or going back in time, it allowed people to reminisce with each other about the good times they had in the past when they were younger. It was amazing how deep people got in answering the questions. Almost immediately once I started asking the would you rather questions people began opening-up. When I started the group therapy session, I was very nervous about how it would go and whether people would have a hard time opening up.

I came up with “would you rather” questions such as “would you rather pause time or go back in time.” I thought that these would be fun and light way to get the ball rolling, but little did I know they would become heart-opening questions that would create new friendships. I had never conducted a group therapy session before, so I did some research and found out that the best way to conduct the group therapy session is to come up with discussion questions beforehand. I decided to take on the responsibility of leading this intervention. We conducted a literature review and found that group therapy was very beneficial for people with social anxiety, so we decided to hold a session for them. We identified social anxiety as the major health disparity among the population. For this clinical rotation, we focused on identifying health disparities within the community then planned interventions accordingly. Phan at the Atlanta Housing Authority site. For my community health rotation, I was fortunate enough to work with Dr. I was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and I started my college career at Georgia College and State University and transferred to Emory University for the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. My name is Alex King, and I am a junior BSN candidate.

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