Jessica Adkins – Honorable Mention – “Force for Good” Alumni Video Contest

Jessica Adkins – Honorable Mention – _Force for Good_ Alumni Video Contest

[00:00:00] Jessica Adkins (USAHS Alumni): Hi, I’m Jessica Adkins, and I’m a recent graduate from the Family Nurse Practitioner program at the University of St. Augustine. After graduation in April of this year, twenty twenty-three, I relocated to the beautiful mountains of Asheville, North Carolina, with my family. I also recently procured my dream position as a community hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner.

[00:00:21] Jessica Adkins (USAHS Alumni): I am already getting to see the difference that I’m making in my patients’ lives on a daily basis. Just this week, I had a patient with end-stage hereditary cerebellar ataxia who cannot communicate verbally but uses a notebook to communicate in writing. At the conclusion of our visit, she went like this and wrote in her notebook and turned it around, and it said, “Jess, you’ve helped me so much.”

[00:00:46] Jessica Adkins (USAHS Alumni): She then gave me the international symbol for I love you, which of course made me tear up, knowing that I am already making that difference in her life and bringing her joy. None of this would have been possible without the University of St. Augustine and the challenging, rigorous coursework, didactic and clinical, that it provided me throughout my years as a graduate student.

[00:01:09] Jessica Adkins (USAHS Alumni): I get to leave my house every single day knowing that I am a force for good in my community, and I accredit that to the University of St. Augustine and the incredible foundation that it provided me.