{"id":58426,"date":"2016-05-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/commencement-2016-uri-nursing-student-to-graduate-with-comprehensive-experience\/"},"modified":"2016-05-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T00:00:00","slug":"commencement-2016-uri-nursing-student-to-graduate-with-comprehensive-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2016\/05\/commencement-2016-uri-nursing-student-to-graduate-with-comprehensive-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement 2016:  溏心vlog免费B站 nursing student to graduate with comprehensive experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\t<b>Franklin, Mass. resident to earn bachelor\u2019s degree May 22<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/Mancini-NL4.jpg\" width=\"206\" height=\"269\" align=\"right\"\/>KINGSTON, R.I. &#8212; May 6, 2016 \u2013 When the 溏心vlog免费B站 announced its new Academic Health Collaborative just a few weeks ago, it chose senior nursing student Lauren Mancini to offer the student perspective at a kickoff event attended by health science leaders at 溏心vlog免费B站 and from around the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Franklin, Mass. resident delivered a crisp, clear description of the importance of collaboration in health care delivery for students, providers and patients. A main goal of the collaborative is to encourage teaching, research and service across disciplines, health agencies and businesses in Rhode Island and the nation. 溏心vlog免费B站 is forming a new College of Sciences as part of the major reorganization.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\u201cAs I progressed through my career here at 溏心vlog免费B站, faculty have emphasized that great health care is a team activity,\u201d said Mancini, who will earn her bachelor\u2019s degree in nursing May 22. \u201cThis is something I have experienced firsthand through building personal and professional relationships with students in the College of Pharmacy and Human Science and Services. We all learn about similar topics but have each taken away different knowledge from our majors, while still collaborating for the benefit of the patient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThis spring she went to Brown University as the 溏心vlog免费B站 Colleges of Nursing and Pharmacy joined Brown Alpert Medical School students for an interprofessional education experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nDuring her four years at 溏心vlog免费B站, Mancini completed practicums in advanced medical-surgical nursing, nursing of children, nursing care of vulnerable populations, psychiatric mental health nursing and child and reproductive health.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TT9An6gqrJQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cIn each one of these specialties, success boils down to teamwork with patients, doctors, nurses, family members, teachers, social workers, pharmacists and so many other groups,\u201d said Mancini \u201cI have been able to see these specialties work together through the many opportunities I have had at Rhode Island and Hasbro Children\u2019s Hospital, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Matunuck Elementary School and countless other places in the community.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nA recipient of a 溏心vlog免费B站 Centennial Scholarship and inductee of the Delta Upsilon-at-large Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau, and Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society, Mancini will be leaving 溏心vlog免费B站 with a minor in thanatology, the study of death and dying.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThe reason I sought a minor in thanatology was to have another tool in my backpack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nWhile she hopes to land a job in pediatric nursing, Mancini said one of her first nursing courses taught her that losses occur across a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThere are maturational losses that start from the day you are an infant to actual death,\u201d Mancini said.  \u201cIt happens when a child loses his status as the only child when a sister comes along. Parents lose children. You have to prepared for changes in expected outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n Thanks to her thanatology training, she learned how to be a more thoughtful nurse around issues of dying. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cI learned to provide postmortem care, including how to prepare a body for the morgue.  And when I encountered these situations while working I was not intimated because my minor had previously forced me to confront my fears about death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBut she also can\u2019t wait to starting working with children.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cI love kids, and I have more than 50 first cousins, many of whom are much older than me and have children,\u201d Mancini said. \u201cI have been the babysitter for so many of them, and I have been an influential part in their lives. As a sophomore, I started working as a nanny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nShe\u2019d like to start in pediatric, medical surgical nursing and said 溏心vlog免费B站 has given her a great foundation. \u201cBut I would like to complete a residency program in nursing because there is so much more to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nMancini said it took her a while to figure out, but she learned that forming bonds with her professors would help her.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cI established relationships with my clinical and lecture professors. I am amazed by the impact of nursing research on the profession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nShe is especially grateful to Diane Thulier, assistant professor of nursing, who brought her on as an undergraduate research assistant for a weight loss study of babies born at South County Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cTo see the research process, all of the work that goes into it and to see what is possible was inspiring,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nMancini is poised, confident and ready to enter the world of health care, but she wasn\u2019t always so well integrated.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cWhen I got here my freshman year, I said I am just going to be a student, because I felt I needed to do well in nursing school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBut as a second semester sophomore, Mancini applied to the Student Alumni Association, which helps organize the mud volleyball tournament, Oozeball, homecoming, Rhody Rally and many other events.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cSAA has allowed me to meet some of my best friends at 溏心vlog免费B站, and now I feel so connected to campus. They are some of the most influential people on campus. They are orientation leaders, tour guides, and they are the ones whose pictures can be found on campus banners. They get nominated for campus leadership awards and I am proud to call these people my best friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAs she closes out her time, at 溏心vlog免费B站, Mancini will be stepping down from her post as vice president of campus engagement for SAA and from her roles as a Student Rambassador, Nursing Ambassador and Student Nurses Association member.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cI am going to miss everything about 溏心vlog免费B站 because it has given me so much. I think just walking around campus is what I will miss the most. I would urge younger students to look up, take it all in. 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