Jeanette
Drake
October 2021
Jeanette
Drake
,
PHD, RN, MN, ACNP-BC
Brigham Young University College of Nursing
Provo
,
UT
United States

 

 

 

I never forgot her kindness that day and will never forget the compassion she bestowed upon me as a stranger.
Jeanette goes above and beyond for her students. For example, my first time doing IVs in the lab, she walked in after the class to see a very frustrated third-semester version of myself who felt disappointed she couldn’t get a good stick. I was packing up to leave when she noticed me and told me she would stay with me until I got a successful IV placement. I never forgot her kindness that day and will never forget the compassion she bestowed upon me as a stranger. Jeanette later became my ethics teacher, a class I was very nervous about because of my writing skills. However, she went out of her way to connect and validate her students’ concerns, performances, and learning and to make sure every student felt heard and seen. I had never met a professor who implemented feedback from her students so openly and genuinely. She is fantastic, and I would love to be half the nurse she is.