Issue: Spring 2017 | Posted: June 1, 2017
Allison Davis
Outstanding Young Alumna
Presented to up to three Union University graduates who are age 40 or younger with a record of significant accomplishment in professional life and service to Union University or the world.
Allison Davis says she always wanted to care for other people, and nursing is the perfect way to carry out that dream.
Davis graduated from Union’s Master of Science in Nursing program in 2011 and began working as a family nurse practitioner. In 2012, she joined the faculty at Union University on the Hendersonville campus. She received her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from Vanderbilt in 2015 and became chair of undergraduate nursing at Union University Hendersonville in 2016.
“Union taught me to look at patients as a whole,” Davis says, “taking into account that they are a person and so much more than a diagnosis or a prescription. I learned to take every opportunity to address the spiritual needs they have.”
Davis says she has been able to pray with many of her patients, and she makes sure to pray with her students as well. She says the things that attracted her to Union are the same things she tries to provide for her students—a Christian environment and excellent academics. She says the professors at Union painted a picture of the nurse practitioner she wanted to be.
“They love the Lord with all their hearts, and they exude that,” Davis says. “But they also demand excellence and care for patients and students from the inside out.”
She says at Union, the foundation of nursing is not only academic, but it is also spiritual.
“Why are we doing this?” she asks. “We’re doing this to be the hands and feet of Christ.”
