Seven years after sustaining a spinal cord injury, Gabrielle Baldwin Vanderkuyl graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing

                                                                                Gabrielle Vanderkuyl, BSN

"In 2016, four months before Gabrielle Vanderkuyl was supposed to get her Bachelor of Science in nursing, she ended up paralyzed from the chest down. It’s a moment in her life she doesn’t want to talk about or focus on. Instead, she talked about her hard work and perseverance, which made her graduation dreams come true."

“It’s just moving forward and just knowing that you’re capable of whatever dream that you have and don’t give up,” she said. “Put everything you can do in a bag. Put it on your back. And go forward.”

"Baldwin returned to the School of Nursing in August 2021, seven years after she started the BSN program, ready to wrap up her degree. She needed to audit several courses she had previously taken, finish some classes that had been added since 2016, and complete the last of her clinical rotations."

"She’s come a long way. Now, she has to study for the test to get her nursing license."

Learn more about her journey at:

https://magazine.uncg.edu/newsfront/gabrielle-baldwins-amazing-journey/

https://www.wnct.com/news/north-carolina/uncg-nursing-student-defies-odds-graduates-7-years-after-getting-paralyzed-from-chest-down/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=socialflow&fbclid=IwAR3Uiq1K3AjebpMVfgdR1kOzdxMEHseEc6n-0jiJqTacnP0pYF09EVRrvA8

Cheers!

Donna