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Acute Care Nurse Personal Statement

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My two passions throughout my undergraduate career at Penn have been nursing and community engagement. My initial interest in the school of nursing was working with an acutely ill, geriatric population. Within my undergraduate courses, however, I also developed a strong drive to address inequity- specifically within the community sphere. Through the Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program, I hope to treat acute illnesses while using a patient-centered view to address inequity in my nursing practice. I delayed my application to the Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program until senior year so that I could affirm that my interests were best suited to this particular program. Through my senior year clinicals, I hoped to experience community nursing in order to see if my joint interests in inequity and nursing were applicable to other …show more content…

Prior to my sophomore year, I worked as a Patient Care Technician, rotating in the float pool, serving as a resource for all floors of the hospital. I was exposed to a variety of patient diagnoses, backgrounds, and assessments. In both of my medical-surgical clinicals, I used critical thinking and assessments that would influence the path of a patient’s care. I saw the importance of obtaining a thorough patient history, as health is impacted by patients’ lifestyles. These experiences prepared me for my next clinical experience: working in a critical care setting as a nurse extern in NYU Langone’s Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit. At NYU, I saw an incredibly diverse population of patients: racially, economically, and educationally. Through the exposure to all of these different populations, I realized that I could follow my passion for acute care nursing while simultaneously addressing the inequities that feed into a person’s

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