Davina Dube

UConn School of Nursing, Class of 2014

I was raised in Bristol, Connecticut. My volunteer experience includes working as a junior volunteer at Bristol Hospital, helping out at the Salvation Army, and completing a nursing student internship at Yale-New Haven Hospital. My work experience includes serving as a personal care assistant, homemaker and companion for the disabled and elderly. Through my volunteer work I have become aware of the impact of being uninsured, underinsured and in poverty. As a junior volunteer at Bristol Hospital it was evident that those who entered the ER were mostly uninsured or underinsured and whose conditions had worsened because they lacked access to primary care. Many of these were former veterans who were coping with PTSD, depression, and other metal illnesses, and who go in and out of the hospital revolving door. I hope to join the Urban Service Track so I can use my experience and my nursing knowledge to provide care to those who lack access to health care. I hope that through the Urban Service Track I can see how health challenges are handled in communities and how services are provided for those that need them.