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Nurse Scholarship Essay

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My decision to become a nurse was determined while I was going through medical problems during my eighth-grade year and going through my senior year of high school. While I was in the eighth-grade, I was placed in the hospital because of an e-coli poisoning that attacked my digestive tract resulting in HUS, hemolytic uremic syndrome. I was in the hospital for about a week and then went to Mayo for my recovery. This left me weak, but on the road to recovery. Then as I was entering my freshman year of high school, I developed an eating disorder, anorexia nervosa. During the summer before my sophomore year, I was in treatment most of the summer in Minneapolis. I returned to start my sophomore year and then in March, I returned to another treatment facility in Fargo. The nurses that I had at all the facilities were what helped me the most with my recovery. The nurses encouraged me to push myself …show more content…

I started my days at 6:00 and finished at 4:00. I had to be self-motivated to be to work on time every day and to do my job to the best of my abilities. I learned a lot doing this work. Working with adults was very different than working with youth and I enjoyed this. I learned how to do projects together and how to cooperate with my co-workers to find the most efficient way to do a job. This job also allowed me to develop my listening skills as I was given tasks to do. I often took the leadership role in doing the tasks we were given by coordinating who did what. Another important event in my life was graduating valedictorian of my high school class. This showed me that hard work and dedication do pay off. For me to accomplish this, I had to really push myself since I had missed so much school from being in the hospital. I had to basically teach myself a lot of the subjects to stay on track, but I did it. With all this information, I feel I have the people skills and experience needed to help

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