Katherine Valek

I am a junior at Eastern Michigan University (EMU). I am a level three nursing student, and I am set to graduate in December 2017, after three and a half years of college as opposed to four. I am currently contracted to complete a senior thesis before graduation. My senior thesis focuses on Deafness and hearing impairments in the healthcare field and the linkage between them, namely healthcare disparities. I am also presenting at EMU's Undergraduate Symposium on March 31, 2017, where I will be presenting my findings during a 15 minute speech. My research includes extensive literature review of published scholarly articles, as well as my own original, self-conducted research. Furthermore, I am signed up to travel to Taiwan during late July and early August of 2017, where myself and fellow nursing students will be studying abroad. While in Taiwan, we will be fulfilling our community nursing clinical requirements, and we will also be attending an international healthcare convention.
I keep myself extremely busy at the moment, as I work another job as a private nanny for a 10 year-old boy with cerebral palsy. I go to school full time, taking both nursing classes and general education classes, alongside the two jobs. I intend to keep myself this busy and keep working as hard as I am now after becoming a nurse, because I understand how valuable such a determination and drive to succeed can be in healthcare.