The first way that I thought of this experience relating to my future clinic practice is related to discussions about the afterlife. Religion often determines how people think about what happens after death. Medical emergencies or conditions that I will see may bring up questions about the after life, and it will be important that I am knowledgeable about different beliefs systems and the different resources available to support my clients in their journey. It is important to not push my beliefs on others but rather to inform myself so I can be more understanding and supportive. Along this topic, I am also thinking about how important it will be to be inclusive in my verbiage near holidays. I should not assume that everyone celebrates the
As a young child, I was always drawn towards the field of health care. I remember reading about the many options that are held within it and wondering what path it would lead me on. Neonatal nursing was something that always came into my mind, but it was often pushed to the side by people and teachers who thought I should become a pediatrician instead. This became a real struggle for me, but as I grew up and began researching and exploring the health care field I came to a decision for myself. I came to the realization that everyone was wrong. I didn’t want to be a doctor at all. This sudden burst of independence from what everyone else wanted was the first step to reaching my end goal. Along with this, an accelerated education, volunteer
One of my career goals for the future is to be happy in any event of what I choose to do. It is very difficult to choose what career is the best for you and if what suitable for you. I am interested in many different types of study. However, I choose to become a nurse in five years from now. I choose this career path because I do like to help other people with their sickness,injuries and struggles in their lives especially when they have any problem in their health, physically or mentally. I have always had a heart for people who are less fortunate and weak. I want to cure their wounds and sickness also I want to prevent their disease and pain that they experience. Importantly, I want to endure my family’s health and prevent them
As a little girl growing up, I watched my mother as she cared for nuclear and extended family members, people in the community and at church; it seemed like she was always taking care of people with a smile and a look of contentment. In the more than 30 years that she worked as a pediatric nurse, I looked forward to the one time in the year she was allowed to take me to work. Without realizing it, my admiration for my mother developed into a desire to help people and this influenced my dream to become a nurse. The final factor that defined my aspiration was the 14-year Liberian civil war; during this time I saw firsthand how much suffering people were going through with shortage in hospitals, doctors and nurses. A lot of people died because of poor health care and lack of qualified health care professionals.
I believed in your mission statement, especially, this part, “dedicated to provide high-quality, accessible medical care to underserved communities, regardless of their inability to pay.” I also believed that community health nursing is one of the best ways to reach the most vulnerable and under-served in our society. The reason why I decided to go back to school to become a nurse practitioner was based on my community health care experiences from volunteering in a community based family clinic that served low-come population and doing my community hours during my BSN program. The lack of health literacy that I saw firsthand that exist in underserved population about the importance of preventive care, vaccinations, and chronic illness management
I want to pursue my health care career in Nursing. I always dreamed of being a nurse, because I enjoy working and caring for people. Ever since I was a little girl I carried a toy stethoscope around and havin my family be my patients. I was not like any other kid, who played with barbies and kenn. My mom even knew I was going to fall in the great path of the health care. My potential is to have the greatest affect on others who are in need of my help. Also, I chose nursing to be my health career, because I have seen the real path of nursing in the real world. Attending a vocational high school, has given me a chance to enter the health assisting program. A four year high school program has put an outrageous affect on me. I learned how to practice
My career commitment as a nurse has grown tremendously over the past three years; through my daily experiences as a Medical Assistant. I have devoted my time as a full time student and employee of the health care profession. Both of these occupations have helped shape me into the person I want to be for as long as time allows. Daily I witness these community role models that posses abilities such as problem solving skills, promotion and protection of an individual’s advocacy all tied in with compassion to meet the health care needs of an individual.
I began volunteering at the Hope Line Resource Center to assist those in the community. This way I could assist with helping people become healthier to avoid facing the same situation my mother was in. Furthermore, I volunteer in health fairs to spread awareness of the ways people can put their body in a healthier state with Urban Health Plan. I wanted to do this to increase the community’s knowledge of how they can take control of their health. I eventually became an intern in the clinic with Urban Health Plan to have a chance to get involved in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) department and to collaborate with pediatricians to further understand the healthcare field. What happened to my mother motivated me to get involved, which eventually taught me that we all have the ability to take care of
For nearly 24 years, I have known that I wanted to become a nurse practitioner. During that time, I was newly married, uninsured, and extremely broke. I had gone to a rural health clinic for some much-needed care and was treated with a dignity and respect that I had never experienced before. It was then I knew that I wanted to provide that same type of care for others in need. It was several years later before I had the opportunity to go to nursing school. Once finished, I went to work right away and greatly enjoyed being at the bedside helping those in need, but still had that desire to continue my education. However, I wanted my children to be older and for me to have several years of nursing experience before
I grew up on a farm that was half an hour from town. We never went to the emergency room. We never went to the doctor. We learned to patch ourselves up with whatever we had, so I had never even seen a nurse in action until I was sixteen and my Grandmother was in a nursing home with stage III Lymphoma. The nursing home was near where I worked and so at lunch time a couple times of week I would go and read to her. At the time, I didn’t focus on the wonderful people taking care of her, however I remember friends and family coming to see my Grandmother and they would talk very loudly to her and some times she wouldn’t even respond. Whereas, I and the nurses could sit right next to her bed and in a normal voice have a conversation with her and she never had trouble hearing us. During these discussions she would express to the nurses how wonderful they were and what a noble thing they were doing by helping take care of people in need. She always told me that the two most important professions were nurses and teachers. This experience taught me that my most important goal is to always treat people as a whole person not just a disease or condition. To take the time to listen and understand what they are need. My second goal is to learn something new everyday to make myself a successful nurse. Third, I want to continue to help and serve the community by continuing to create and implement centers of excellence in contact allergies and urticaria.
After watching my grandmother and father struggle with cancer, I knew I wanted to be a nurse as well as a physician. When I become a nurse, my main goal will be to help save as many lives that I can. Their health coverage or their finical situation will not have an effect on the type of health care my patients will receive. I have to start somewhere, with that being said I want to begin in my own neighborhood.
I come from a low-income urban community located in East Los Angeles and was raised by a single mother who immigrated to the United States from Mexico. I am a first-generation college student and I have an interest in Nursing and the desire to improve the health in communities similar to the one I grew up in: working class communities that consists of disadvantaged groups of people who lack access to quality health care.
I wanted to help them. I wanted to help my family. And eventually I came to realize that I wanted to help prevent anyone else from ever feeling the way that I had—ignorant and powerless. From thinking back on these childhood experiences, I took away the knowledge that I want to follow a career path based in health disciplines. And from subsequently building my education around its fundamental principles, I have developed a more mature understanding of why I strive to dedicate my
I repeatedly ask this question to myself. How I will succeed in achieving my goal? I have four main reasons of why I want to succeed. I am positive that I will succeed, but obviously in order to achieve my dream job I need to make a plan in order to be successful and declare victory. My plan is to go back to school to finish all the credits required to get into nursing school to obtain a BSN (Bachelor degree on Science in Nursing). Workings on the healthcare path as a Medical Assistant made me confirm what I want to achieve next. The number one reason on achieving my dream in getting a job as a nurse is the desire of helping and caring for others. Additionally, I want to improve my life and my kid’s lives as well. My parents have planted the seed of compassion in me. They used to help others and I learned from them the meaning of caring. Since I was little I had a tremendous desired on helping people in the ways I could and I have been surround by doctors and nurses in my family.
Nursing as I know is an important component of the health care delivery system that requires a whole lot of energy and time to put in patient welfare. Although, nursing is a profession that is rewarding and challenging, I have always admired becoming a nurse someday in the future. As a child, I had my father as a role model. My father was a nurse in Cameroon, central Africa. When he retired, he settled back in the rural area where I and the rest of my family lived with him. Considering the fact that the medical system in Africa is shallow, my father wanted to make a difference. As a result of his desire to help people, he opened a clinic and was treating a lot of people in the rural area. He saved the lives