Operations manager • Health, wellness & human performance ICCE
MUSC Health and Wellness Institute
Please share advice you would give as a mentor to women new to the health field.
With so many paths in health care, allow yourself the freedom to explore where your skills and passions truly fit. Don’t box yourself into what you think you should be doing. Explore your career beyond your initial expectations.
What is one obstacle you hope future women in health never have to face?
Making the choice between caring for others and caring for themselves. We preach about not pouring from an empty cup, but many of us do it daily. I hope balance and wellness become the standard and not the exception.
What routines and habits help you prepare for, or recover from, a day’s challenges?
I practice mindfulness and gratitude daily. I am always grateful that I walk into my hospital as an employee and not a patient – that I chose to be here when the patients I serve would rather not.
If you could change one thing about health care, what would it be?
I would like to shift the focus from treating illnesses to health and wellness. Total health care should start long before someone walks into a hospital.
