My Nursing Journey
Goldie Choi is a Korean-American, native New Yorker, born and raised in Brooklyn. She graduated from NYU College of Nursing and studied abroad in Berlin, where she finished her minor in Sociology. She was a commuter assistant for freshmen commuter nursing students and helped them transition into their first year of college. She was also the president of the Asian-Pacific Islander-Nursing Student Association. In 2014, she received the President’s Service Award and graduated with honors cum laude.
In the summer of 2013, Goldie got a nursing externship at NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center on a Geriatric unit and proceed to work there as a 1:1 companion during her senior year. She worked as a hematology-oncology medical surgical nurse for five years, during which she acted as a preceptor, charge nurse, chair of the unit council committee, presented poster presentations at ONS Congress, presented at Grand Rounds and climbed the clinical ladder to Clinical Nurse III. She now works in an Urgent Care Center that functions as a closed emergency room for Memorial Sloan Kettering patients. She has also volunteered in Puerto Rico on a medical mission trip which inspired her to explore more in the nursing world. She dabbled in several per diem jobs at other hospitals and as a school nurse.

Shifting the Conversation – Holistic Medicine
After 5 years of working with and losing some of the most wise, kind-hearted people to leukemia and lymphoma, Goldie felt the weight of nursing that is barely discussed and unfortunately not lectured about in nursing school. She noticed she was burnt out and was experiencing compassion fatigue, so she started searching for her own way back to health and wellness. This journey of self-work has lead Goldie to find her passion to practice, educate and promote self-care as a lifestyle. Goldie is Reiki Level 2 certified as of November 2019. She has given over 80 people sessions and have held over 100 sessions since.
If you’d like a session please feel free to schedule an appointment!
Goldie became a nurse because she loves helping others and did not want to go to medical school to do so. After experiencing the loss of a dear patient, the essence of life and time became profound to her. She wanted to live, not just exist, thus, began this journey, all with one thought in mind:
Our minds, our hearts, and our bodies cannot function as separate entities. Each must be listened to and tended to in order to achieve the best versions of ourselves. We must seek what nourishes our souls and learn to incorporate that into our daily lives, not just on “treat yourself days”.
