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Allison White, RN, NP

Everyone, Everyday. Relentlessly: Meet Allison White

Alison “Allie” White, RN, NP, recently appeared in the UMass Memorial Health print advertisement in The Boston Globe’s special Salute to Nurses advertising section that ran in May.

Allie said she became a nurse after watching her mother enjoy a nursing career. She explained that she saw her mom, “come home rewarded every day.”

Allie normally works for both Urology and Internal Medicine at UMass Memorial Medical Center, but during the COVID-19 pandemic she worked for weeks on end at both the UMass Memorial DCU Center Field Hospital and the Critical Decision Unit caring for COVID-19 patients. Allie’s mom recently retired from her job as an operating room nurse manager at the Medical Center, but not before she and Allie worked together during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Of working with her mom, Allie said, “It really helped with integrative care and coordinated care by working together. We would take care of some of the same patients, I widened my community of people I know here, my relationships with colleagues became stronger, and it was like a sense of community.”

On being featured in the ad, Allie said, “It was really neat to see that I support such a great organization and that my family and friends were seeing how I support this organization as a whole.” To Allie, the ad was important because it, “showed exactly what we did every day: the will to go on, the ‘I’m not letting down, I’m not giving up, we need to do this’ attitude.”

Allie’s description of UMass Memorial Health’s relentless caregivers could easily be extended to herself, as well. Allie believes working through the COVID-19 pandemic changed her. “I became a stronger person because of COVID-19, and I had more willpower and I knew I could do it. I had more confidence in myself and I didn’t let anything get me down because we needed to pull together as a community to do this.”

In her free time, Allie loves to spend time in New Hampshire – at the river in the summer, and on a snowboard in the winter. She also loves to play golf and wake surf, and, as a certified diver. Allie loves to go diving when she travels.