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The Human Experience: Julie

Padilla
MSN, RN, CNE

By: Yomari Hernandez

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Who is Julie Padilla?
Julie

Padilla has worked at

UNC Charlotte since 2004

She

teaches Pharmacology in
Health and Illness

Currently:

she is the
coordinator of the Health
Connection learning
Community in the College of
Health and Human Services.

She

is a kind hearted woman

who knows how to logically
perceive situations due to her
nursing training

Classroom setting

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Hospital Background:

Celebrates 30 years of being a nurse in May 2015

Has been teaching on and off for the past 15 years

Before coming to Charlotte, NC, she worked in

Honolulu Hawaii as the coordinator of the Nursing
Education Department in a 500 bed hospital

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What does an Emergency Nurse
do?

They treat patients in emergency

situations where they're experiencing
trauma or injury.

Their job is to quickly recognize lifethreatening problems and are trained to

help solve them on the spot.

ER nurses also spend a lot of time

educating patients about their conditions
and explaining the procedure on how to
get better and hopefully not see the
patients again any time soon. Their goals
is help educate the patient preventative
measures to injuries.

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When asked how closely she
works with her patients
Nursing embodies the triad of caring for the mind, body
and spiritI have been the voice of the patient, who is
unable to speak, who assures the family it is OK to say
good-bye to their loved one when they are ready to go to
heaven or whereverDeath is a scary event but for
those of us who experience it on a more frequent basis
we are slightly better equipped to accept when the time
is right and can assist the family through the process of
acceptance as well -Julie Padilla

+Different personal outcomes regarding how she

helped society as a whole and how she helped
someone as an individual
Community

In Honalulu: provided
emergency resuscitative care
for clients who had experienced
cardiac arrest also taught
hundreds of nursing and
medical students

In Charlotte: continues work at a

hospital in the emergency care
unit works as a college
professor

Both: Dealt with hundreds of

death cases in which she
provides emotional supoprt

Individual
About 3 years ago, she was
out with a group of her
daughters friends and one
of them began chocking.
She performed the
Heimlich maneuver on this
young girl to dislodge the
foreign body that was
trapped in her airway
blocking her from
breathing.
Raises her children keeping
them knowledgeable of how
to care for themselves

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Impacting Quote that
influenced me the most:

I doubt many individuals or families think back to a

certain individual rather than the overall experience or
event when thinking back to being in a hospital. If I had
to narrow down my most positive experiences as to
how I might have had a positive impact on a family I
would have to say it would be giving individuals death
with dignity. While individuals are rushed in and out of
emergency rooms and treated for various ailments,
again there is very little impact any one person can
make in the short term, however when a loved one is
dying giving the family time to grieve, room to express
their cultural needs and a sympathetic shoulder to cry
on goes a very long way and makes a long lasting
impression.

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Impacting quote continued
Why it meant so much to me

These words impacted me because growing up, I was

always the friend people could come to share their
stories with me and have someone who could
understand them and give them the push they needed
to get back on their feet again. My life goal is to
continue my talents and help people through my career
as a doctor.

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Julie Padilla Now:

Working at the hospital

with her nurses in
training is one her
favorite things to do

She had gone back to

school to be able to
teach her students at
the highest quality
level and since then
she says she has not
looked back and loves
that she made that
decision