Undergraduate Nursing Student,

Krystle Miller, Receives Overall Excellence

Award from the MU Sinclair School of Nursing

April 30 , 2008

COLUMBIA , Mo. – Throughout nursing school Krystle Miller has come to realize that taking care of patients and their families is her life's passion.

In fact, her favorite part of class is walking into the patient's room to see what's in store. It's exciting for her to get to know the different types of people, and she feels lucky to have a job that interacts with different cultures and walks of life every day.

“Krystle is an exceptional student. She has a great depth of perception about her nursing care and its effect on her patients than many of the other students in her class,” said Denice Mendenhall, instructor of nursing at the MU Sinclair School of Nursing. “She also shows an unusual amount of compassion for her patients as well. She is a very caring individual.”

When she was 10, she was with her grandmother, a retired nurse, when they visited a nursing home where her grandmother used to work. She was amazed that her grandmother's former patients remembered her grandmother. This was the defining moment in Miller's life. She knew she wanted to touch people's lives in a meaningful way and experience the same connection her grandmother had.

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