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Nursing Personal Statement Examples

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Growing up with a mother who is a nurse, I have been able to appreciate and understand the importance of public health. She taught me not only how crucial personal health is but also how important community health and prevention is. My mother raised me to have compassion and empathy for others as well. This rooted my interest in careers that can have high beneficial impacts on others’ lives, such as those under the field of public health. Biostatistics is an ideal career path for me because I can use my quantitative & analytical mindset to satisfy my goals of contributing to the improvement of current health treatments & prevention methods. Specifically, I would like to use biostatistics to positively impact human and animal cancer patients. My initial interest in helping animal cancer patients began when I experienced my cat deal with breast cancer. I also gained interest in human cancer patients when my grandma dealt with thyroid cancer and recently when my friend became …show more content…

I connected with a local veterinarian who has been performing clinical trials with his new non-invasive hyperthermia treatment for a range of ailments including cancer. He was able to offer me a Clinical Data Analyst position to assist in the statistics and design of such clinical trials as well. My experience under this position alongside my independent research has helped me gain valuable knowledge outside of the classroom. Among this gained knowledge I learned details of crossover designs, valid data collection methods, and survival analysis techniques. Amidst the reports I produced, I was able to statistically show an increase in positive results and decrease in negative results with the routine use of the hyperthermia treatment for dogs with osteoarthritis. This experience also helped me realize that I may prefer applied statistics and guided me towards the more applied M.P.H.

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