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My name is Delaney Collins. I’m a current graduate student at the Columbia University’s School of Nursing pursuing my Master of Science in New York City. I’m a recent alumna of the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. I graduated summa cum laude with my Bachelor of Arts in English, minored in writing, pursued my pre-nursing prerequisites, and was the co-winner of a departmental award for excellence in my major.
Prior to moving to New York City to pursue nursing, I found my passion for health education and patient advocacy in 2016 when I spent 4 months in Nairobi, Kenya volunteering as an HTC certified HIV/AIDs counselor. I then found my interest in children and families occupying a year long role as an Americorps volunteer at Biddeford Intermediate School from 2018-2019. My passion and interests coincided and solidified most recently as I worked in a small in-patient psychiatric hospital as a behavioral technician on the developmental disorders unit serving patients from the ages of 4 to 21.
I hope to use my background in English and writing to inform my advocacy for patients, mitigate my personal bias, and to further articulate and uplift patient narratives in local and global contexts. My short-term goal is to become a registered nurse in the trauma specialty and pursue further education and certifications in trauma, caring for patients who are transgender, mitigating racial bias in healthcare, and caring for patients with developmental differences. My long-term goal is to pursue further degrees and certifications in public health, law, and policy so I can move from being a patient advocate by the bedside, to being a patient advocate through legislature.
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“There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.”
– Zora Neale Hurston
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhumane.”
― Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
