Opportunities Paper
One of the most difficult tasks in life is choosing a career path. Individuals often question which skills, values, traits, and other qualities they possess that may or may not match up with a possible job that would spark a life-long interest. Even for myself, I am still questioning which direction I am meant to take. I started my original journey at higher education at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania in an Exercise Science program destined to eventually end up with some sort of Occupational Therapy Degree because I failed at being accepted in to the Music Department. My journey quickly led me from one major to the next, to the next, and on, and on. Even as I am quite confident that Nursing is my
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To keep with commuting to Clearfield to keep my job my first question to Dr. McSkimming was what type of degree programs are offered on this campus; currently Clearfield Campus only has the Associate of Arts degree in Criminal Justice which is a two-year program (McSkimming, 2013). Of course, I was curious about the bachelor’s degree, would I just have to go to Main Campus to complete that degree program? I was surprised to hear Dr. McSkimming inform me that he actually had a meeting at Main Campus later that week regarding bringing the bachelor’s degree program to Clearfield Campus. Dr. McSkimming stated that the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration that is offered at Clearfield Campus has the same General Education Requirements that would be needed for a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice. Dr. McSkimming sounded hopeful that such advancement could be made to the Clearfield Campus; he added that when he started only approximately eleven students were declared Criminal Justice majors at Clearfield, currently there are approximately forty declared students (McSkimming, 2013). With such little information, the growth of the Criminal Justice field is imminent; knowing this it made me remember a statement Dr. McSkimming made at the beginning of the semester in my Sociology course regarding the majority of the
Horny toad” vs. Cannibalism. Car vs. boat. Moonshine. In the video clip “O Brother Where Art Thou?” And the Text The Odyssey, all have similarities and differences.
According to SMBGC’s website, SMBGC’s mission is to “inspire and enable young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential” (smbgc.org). “Those who need us must” refers definitely to the miracles of our lives: the children. SMBGC’s child focused mission is a value for the community, which is important and relevant to consider. It was the significant reason that I wanted to participate at this site.
Finding the career of my dreams or as some would put it “my calling” has been a rather difficult task. It is always hopeful that someone would discover what they are called to do in their younger years (elementary-high school) so they have plenty of time for planning out there career map but then there are those who are pulled in different directions…like myself. When I started my college career in 2007, I just did what seemed to be the norm. To make a long story short, I started as a nursing major and ended up graduating 5 years later with two totally different degrees, a Child Life degree as well as a Family and Community Services degree with a concentration in early intervention. In this economy, finding a job with two fairly non-specific
The career that I have chosen to pursue is Human Resources Management. When I started out on the path of “what I want to be when I grow up” I started in a completely different line of work. I wanted to be a Nurse when I graduated high school. I enrolled in college and I worked at a children’s hospital. After a while I started getting burned out by working long hours and on the weekend and I started to wonder if this was the right career that I wanted to continue with. I was offered a position at a staffing company that tailored to physicians and nurses and I
For me nursing was not something that I initially intended to do as a career. During elementary school and into high school I contemplated many different career paths such as cosmetology, teaching, psychology, and forensics. It was not till the later years of high school that I started to notice my desire to help other individuals and love of science, health, and different disease processes. My desire to help people has originated from the admiration of my grandfather’s
Growing up I knew I wanted a career where I can help people. I was undecided whether that would be in the form of caring for people or helping teach key stage 1. I thought I would enjoy becoming a nurse so started an access to higher education course in health care. Once attending university open days and finding out the unsociable hours and weeks away, I knew this is not the career path that I want to go for. As a mother, I want to be around and involved with my children.
Thank you for the opportunity to submit my Eng.101 Portfolios for your review. I believe the Portfolio is a great example of my hard work in this course. My academic goal is to achieve my Associate of Nursing Degree in Nursing Program. I am aiming to graduate in two years with a GPA of 3.5 or above. My career goal is to own a clinic to care for the sick. I am from Nigeria, and I would like to take what I have
Despite a lifelong passion for medicine and a desire to pursue a career in healthcare, I'd always struggled to find the right path forward for myself. Nursing? Maybe. Teaching? Possibly.
During my senior year of high school, our graduating class had to take more than one career assessment. I was given choices in the health and human science field. I was a lover of science and the human body so there is no wonder on why I was given these career choices. You never think about choosing a career until you are given a list of what there is to do in the world. I put a lot of time and effort into choosing the career I want the rest of my life. I found that a lot of my childhood was spent in hospitals. When I was there I made sure to make time to look at the babies in the nursery. My mind would come up with a ton of questions regarding their life, family, and health. This lead me to choose a career pathway in neonatal nursing. Neonatal nurse practitioners normally deal with babies who need immediate medical attention, but sometimes there are instances when that is not the case. I would like to become a neonatal nurse practitioner so I can apply my education and experience to better the newborns’ health and well-being.
In my choice of majoring in the field of nursing I have come across multiple opinions and different views on my decision. I have not had a family member, friend, or acquaintance tell me that I have chosen wrong but I have been questioned on why I didn’t choose accounting like the rest of my family. My answer exactly, “I have a desire to seek out and help those around me.” I’ve always told myself and others that my future career would be something that was different every day. A registered nurse earns a yearly salary of $60,000 or higher. Nursing is a career that will always be necessary and important to have in the work industry, the world will always need another nurse. I chose the field of nursing simply because I have always had a
The desire of improved health for the citizens of our nation has long been fundamental in promoting the use of vaccinations. As early as the 1800’s, vaccinations were beginning to be recognized as highly beneficial in abolishing deadly diseases and intense interest in developing useful vaccinations began. As more vaccinations were discovered and more individuals vaccinated, diseases such as polio, diphtheria, and smallpox no longer plagued populations and decimated nations. Combined vaccinations for multiple diseases were created, such as diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine (DTP) and measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (MMR). These vaccines have played an enormous role in improving the health of the people of our nation.
In contrast, I feel like the most problematic issue I have during nursing school is being unsure of what area I would like to work in once I graduate. I seems like many of my classmates already know where they would like to work, but I am keeping my options open because I am still unsure. Unfortunately, this might hinder me from researching and learning more about a particular field I could be interested in while I am attending clinical field experience in that area. I feel that my goal of simply passing has humbled me and keeps me grounded and willing to accept what I cannot control. Although I cannot control everything, the main aspect of nursing school that I am in control of is how I manage and use my time. I feel like my expectations
In life it is hard to know if the career chosen is the perfect fit. How does one know if he or she is going towards the right profession? Once I learned more about nursing and became a CNA I knew nursing was a good fit for myself. In this paper I will first, explain what brought me to the nursing profession then, the values of nursing and how they relate to my personal values and lastly, my personal goals and how they relate to nursing.
My academic and career goals don't stray from the norm. I strive for success and for satisfaction in my work. I refuse to let a goal go unaccomplished. I feel that I display that by moving across the country from Idaho to Washington D.C., to see to it that I get the best education I can. My passion is helping people, and I see no better way to do it than to care for all ages and ethnicities in a day to day job. I am starting with obtaining a Bachelor’s degree, then work for my Master’s degree with a specialty in anesthesia. Nursing has everything I would hope to have in a life and a career. The opportunities are endless with where I would be, what I would specialize in, and who I would work with. I want to take this career
Since I was in elementary I knew I wanted to be a nurse. When I was not feeling good during school, I would end up in the nurse’s office. It did not matter how bad I felt. I could not help staring at her personalized wooden desk plate. I would daydream about one day seeing my name on my own the desk plate. I loved how caring and loving she was and I wanted to be like her. As I grew older I never really took the time to think of what type of nurse I wanted to be. I assumed I would go into obstetrics or gynecology since I am a female. It was not until two years ago that I decided I wanted to be a psychiatric nurse.