Graduate St. Francis College

Soon after, I received my licensure and began working at The Queen's Medical Center as a Registered Nurse (RN) in early part of 1994. Since becoming a RN, I have provided care to a great deal of patients and reassured countless numbers of family members. As a RN, I've also become the coordinator of care, patient advocate, and teacher to the patients I cared for while serving as the eyes and the ears of the physicians. As with any human, I enjoyed sharing the laughter with my patient and cringed at site of their pain and despair. For these reasons, I believe that being a RN is a great career choice for me. However, for these same reasons, I still feel that I am not a complete nurse; hence I've decided to go back to school and try to earn my Bachelor in Science Degree in Nursing

For as long as I can remember, I've always aspired to become a nurse, a healthcare professional who is always helping patients receive the highest quality care and compassion. As a young child I was often in and out of the hospital, I'd received treatment after treatment and I found myself fatigued by the end of it all. However, receiving high quality care and genuine concern from the nurses made the experience much less excruciating. After I'd learned about that profession as a child I felt that I wanted to do the same for others as those nurses had done for me. Caring for those in need became a passion of mine, and because I know how it feels to be sick in the hospital,

Caring for others has always been a passion of mine, and becoming a nurse has always been my dream. While my dream has turned reality, I can say that nursing has blessed me with the opportunity to not only be a servant to those in my community, but it has also allowed me to be of some comfort to patients and their loved ones during their darkest and most vulnerable moments. Nursing offers a variety of opportunities, where the only restrictions are the ones we set for ourselves. As for myself, all things are possible, for if I want it, I strongly believe it’s already mine. The depths that I will go to reach the latitude of success that I so desire is boundless.

My initial interest in nursing began from my experience with my grandmother. It was in the fall of 2007 when my grandmother was sent to the hospital due to hypernatremia. My dad would pick me up every afternoon from school to visit my grandmother. I was given the responsibility to look after my grandma for nearly two weeks that includes in feeding her, assisting her, and other light duties. What fascinate me during my visits in the hospital were the nurses who assisted and took care of my grandma. They treated my grandma with dignity, kindness, compassion, courtesy, respect, understanding, and love. Their commitment, professionalism, dedication, determination and skills inspired me to pursue a career in the medical field. From that point, I realized that nursing is a field that enables people impact other people’s lives and make a difference. At 9 years old, being a nurse was a childhood dream and now I am at the point of turning my dream into reality. I want to study and pursue my dream registered nursing at Ryerson University that offers a nursing degree program that focuses on developing student’s critical thinking skills, ability to analyze reflectively and apply theory through community health focused practice making Ryerson one of the best nursing schools in Canada.

Nursing is an excellent career choice, where an individual acquires great gratitude while attending to others necessities. If someone is constantly trying to improve themselves and wanting to be challenged in life, “as nurses, we face tremendous challenges and often see and do things that are extraordinary” (Ulrich xix). By becoming a registered nurse the individual will make a difference. Nursing allows an individual to continuously be benefiting a fellow human being, not only with the patient but with their families as well, having the opportunity to becoming someone especial in the patient’s life. Nursing is a

I have always believed in giving back to the community and in sharing my competencies and skills with others. My desire to help people in the field of nursing has powered my decision to take up a graduate degree in Nursing. Overcoming the many challenges in my life has helped me to believe that I can reach any goal I have set for myself, and one of these lifelong goals is to become a nurse practitioner and to obtain

Because of these changes, my interests in nursing have been influenced by circumstance. From the very beginning of my journey, I had a strong interest in becoming a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), but because of the need to relocate for my husband’s job, becoming a CRNA was no longer an option due to location. After reevaluating my options, I have established a new interest in becoming a Family Nurse Practitioner, but because of my academic marathon and because of my age, I have also considered foregoing the additional education past a BSN. Other areas of interest include the Emergency Room, Cardiology, Critical Care, and Neurology. All of my career options interest me because they provide challenge and constant change. Hopefully the remainder of my academic journey will help solidify my ultimate career goal in the nursing profession.

Growing up my mother worked as a nurse which consequently built a strong respect as well as admiration for the profession. However, up until the day I left for college I never considered this career for me. As a last resort I made checklist to try and determine the major that best fit my aspirations for the future. Nursing immediately jumped out at me and since then I have been infatuated with the goal of becoming a nurse.

As a result of my hard work and dedication throughout high school I am a prospective student of a top private university. In the near future I will be attending Gonzaga University as a nursing major. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing I will be pursing a speciality program in pediatrics. Initially, I became interested in nursing following a month stay at Children’s Hospital. After enduring emergency surgery, I was inspired by the nurses care and kindness. When I felt as if I was never going to recover the nurses would instill hope in me. I aspire to help a child and family the same way the nurses helped me. Working at Children’s Hospital would fulfill this aspiration and allow me to give back and help people in the best way possible.

My entire life I have always wanted to become a Registered Nurse (RN) because my grandmother was a nurse and I always had the need to care for others. I would always “play nurse” as a child with my family members and I always enjoyed helping them out and making them feel better. After applying for a few programs of nursing at a few schools and not getting in, I decided to just take a few general classes at a University. I realized I was

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.

My passion for nursing comes directly from my desire to help others in need. I want to be a nurse because I get personal satisfaction in assisting others and feel I am capable of not only understanding the necessary qualities of a nurse but am able to recognize the patient's perspective. Growing up in a home surrounded by domestic violence, I saw my mother recover from the assaults frequently in hospital beds. As a small child, I idolized the doctors and nursing staff who aided in rebuilding my mother's physical and mental well-being. I will never forget one event when a nurse told me to stay strong and to never lose sight of my hopes and dreams.

I chose to pursue a career in Nursing, because I’ve always been drawn to those in need. I want to provide care for my community as a way of giving back to humanity. I aspire to work within the community prolonging life, and promoting health through organized efforts and informed choices of society. My nursing philosophy is that nurses have a responsibility to the public to provide safe, holistic care.

All throughout high school, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do when I grew up as far as majoring and what career I wanted but I knew for a fact that I wanted to be in the medical field. The reason I came up with this idea is helping people is a personal trait about myself. I take pride and passion about along with the amazement my mind undergoes of the anatomy and physiology of the human body so I continue to look forward furthering my knowledge about it. My senior year in high school, I took Health Science II the first semester then Nursing Fundamentals the second semester; after realizing how much I enjoyed the clinical hours helping people with the activities of daily living, keeping themselves clean, and bonding with them showed me nursing is the pathway for me.

I am constantly reminded how important it is to heal in order to live a good life. Many times we push past our limits and are scarred to no return. I want to be the rising hope in somebody’s life, the shoulder to cry on. As Heath Buckmaster, once said, “Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.” I want to be a pediatric nurse to keep the hope alive, to be the one that cares. The devotion of a nurse goes above and beyond than just treating young patients, but creating a safe, and comfortable environment in difficult times is truly inspiring. I am immensely inspired to train in this field of medicine to provide the comfort and support I once got.