First Year 
Last Day at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
The last 21 years have shaped me into the person I am today.
I first started at HUP as a nurse extern on Silverstein 12, a medical-surgical unit, where I learned foundational skills in nursing. After I graduated from Rutgers in May 2001, I moved down to South Jersey to work as a full-time staff nurse on Silverstein 8 and start the Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner program at Penn.
As luck would have it when I graduated from the WHNP program in 2003, the Department of OBGYN was seeking to hire two advanced practice providers: one to cover GYN and the other to cover antepartum and postpartum. Helping to develop this new role as a WHNP hospitalist was the opportunity of a lifetime. I am proud of how we have been able to establish the role as an integral part of the team and the department and how this role has served as a model for other WHNP hospitalist roles across the country. In this role, I have been able to manage the care of thousands of antepartum and postpartum patients and work with the most amazing, brilliant, skilled colleagues.
I also consider my work colleagues at HUP my family as they have helped my husband and me welcome our babies into the world. They took such good care of us as we grew our family and also held us close when we experienced loss.
Closing this chapter today but bookmarking it to look back at all the lessons learned and the wonderful memories we’ve made.
I am forever grateful.
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 2001
Last day at HUP, May 31, 2022