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Andrew Freeman
BSN Student

I take initiative and represent the student body throughout the college and outside the college. I’ve learned at UIC that you can receive a great education, meet a lot of very important people in the field of nursing, and network with people. You can find a huge number of people – names you’ve never heard of, faces you’ve never seen – who are willing to lend a helping hand if you approach them. These are nurses and researchers who impact our everyday practice. UIC is a small community within the large picture of nursing.

If a student aspires to have more of an impact, or wants to create more out of their career as a nurse, there’s such a huge spectrum of areas to get involved in. You can definitely find those things at UIC. If you can’t find it directly, then there are people who can give you names and help you find others who will lead to your interests. Whether it be references for graduate school, or getting involved with grants and research projects, or working with community organizations in the UIC neighborhood, where there are a lot of underserved, underrepresented patients who can benefit from our services, even while we’re students.

As a student leader, I’m devoted to getting more of the student body involved with the nursing community and the community around the college. It’s important to do it now, when they’re students, so they can carry that on after they graduate. We can all walk out and be a floor nurse, but there’s so much more to being a nurse and being involved and serving the community.