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My Goals For My Nursing Goals

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I realized the role of caring has always been embedded in me. Now I could see that the once directionless person I was now has a goal. My experiences were small steps that contributed to helping build this invisible and long ladder of mine to reach my nursing goals. I was fearful to speak out loud about approaching nursing as a career because I had a couple of obstacles in my way. I definitely struggled with my grades that affected my GPA greatly. I spend some days crying because I could not see where I could go with my grades and what future I would even have. Instead of loitering around and letting my fear to continue taking over me, I made a change. I took a two-year gap and decided to retake most of my pre-requisites classes and also took different major classes – correction, databases, and Microsoft software- to expand my knowledge. The anatomy, microbiology, and physiology classes were smaller and more interactive. I was more active with my voice and asked numerous questions to make sure I truly understood the subjects. Because of work and school, I knew I had to make time to start early on my studying. I would study all my lecture notes and PowerPoints after class and then rewrite everything on a blank piece of paper. This way when I am writing it, I would understand what I was writing. I knew it was the longer route in studying, but I found it to be the only way that worked for me. It was a lot of writing, but in the end, I got the grades I wanted. I

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