Education and Work Experience

My first degree was a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy at the University of the Philippines (UP-Diliman) in the early 2000s.  Foregoing a career in law, I soon found myself immersed in literature and writing.

 When my mom got sick with cancer and subsequently died from it in 2018, I saw reasons for me to relent to my sister's imploration that I take up nursing. Within months, I saw myself sitting  in a classroom understandably uneasy in an all-white nursing uniform. The ID clutched in my hands gave the reality of me being a second-time student a finality. After that, like the quick turning of a page, time flew by. With dozens of reports, exams, and clinicals done and dusted, I finally earned my Bachelor of Science in Nursing in September 2022 at the Capitol Medical Center. Clearly, the years spent in nursing school were a reshaping of who I was and want to be.                                             

A combination of luck and waves of determination saw me land a spot in the TOP 10  of the November 2023  Philippine Nursing Licensure Examination (PNLE). At this point, I was ready to accept that nursing was not at all a bad decision for someone originally reluctant to trade literature and writing for anything.

For the next few months, I prepared for my NCLEX.  In July 2023, I took the exam in Hong Kong, and to my relief, I passed and got my  New York USRN license in July 2023.  That same year, I started working at the Philippine Heart Center with a specialty in Pediatric Cardiac Nursing.   

"It is a beautiful thing when a career and a passion come together."- Unknown