My name is Garrett Wineberg, a December 2023 RN-BSN UCAP Nursing Graduate. To me, nurses are the facilitators of patient care; they are leaders, communicators, and professionals. They are a patient’s confidant and their advocate. These characteristics form the passion I have for my career in nursing. I have always had a passion to help people. Using my organizational skills and my education, I can help others in times of need, support a life-saving surgical team, and make my dreams a reality.
As student, I achieved academic excellence and accomplishments, which include being a part of multiple honors societies throughout my educational experience. While in high school in May of 2019, I earned my Associates of Science and Associates of Arts degrees, both of which I graduated Summa Cum Laude (prior to receiving my High School Diploma in June of the same year). In May of 2021 I graduated Summa Cum Laude and was awarded outstanding student in the Certified Surgical Technology Program at Lakeland Community College. Then in May of 2023, I graduated from Lakeland Community College’s ADN Nursing Program with Summa Cum Laude honors. While completing my ADN at Lakeland Community College, I was also dual enrolled at Ursuline College to complete my BSN online, and in December of 2023, I graduated with my BSN from Ursuline with Summa Cum Laude Honors.
I currently work at the Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital as an Intraoperative Registered Nurse, specializing in Orthopedic and Trauma Services. As an RN at the Cleveland Clinic, we are taught powerful values that guide the efficient, effective, and quality care that we provide. These values include putting patients first, caring for the patient as a whole person, collaborative patient-team care, and communicating with H.E.A.R.T, (Hear, Empathize, Apologize, Respond, and Thank). These values remind me of why I chose Ursuline College, an institution that strives to promote and push students within a similar set of values. Knowing I had the ability to go to any school I wanted in the country, I chose to stay in Northeast Ohio and go to Ursuline College because of the strong, rigorous, and respected reputation this school has with some of the largest healthcare institutions around the world, and because the values match what I prioritize and passionately believe when it comes to helping change and save someone’s life.
Ursuline has taught me how to be there for others and be altruistic. This is why I would suggest Ursuline College to other students within the community. Ursuline College is a school that advocates for you as a student and is focused on helping you achieve your career goals. Ursuline teaches that the patient is our priority through our intelligence, experience, and compassion. We as nurses from Ursuline are the healing hands that people seek in desperate times.
In my career so far, I have been there to remove a kidney due to kidney failure, to perform a CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Graft) due to multiple Coronary Artery blockages leading to heart attacks, to perform multiple Pancreatectomies, Hysterectomies, Mastectomies, etc. to remove late-stage cancer. As this list keeps growing, there is a common theme—lives being saved and putting my patients first. I am glad to be one of the Intraoperative RNs who get to be on the front lines, scrubbing with an excellent team, and saving lives with them! I plan to earn my MSN degree and go on to become a Registered Nurse First Assistant (RNFA) with the Cleveland Clinic. With the values, assets, and principles of Ursuline College I continue to save and improve lives one surgery, one case, and one patient at a time.
