Personal Narrative: My Relationship With Sharp As A Highschool Student

As a young child, I was always drawn towards the field of health care. I remember reading about the many options that are held within it and wondering what path it would lead me on. Neonatal nursing was something that always came into my mind, but it was often pushed to the side by people and teachers who thought I should become a pediatrician instead. This became a real struggle for me, but as I grew up and began researching and exploring the health care field I came to a decision for myself. I came to the realization that everyone was wrong. I didn’t want to be a doctor at all. This sudden burst of independence from what everyone else wanted was the first step to reaching my end goal. Along with this, an accelerated education, volunteer

Recently I have spent my time researching the paths I would like to take to further my education in the medical field. While trying to discover my path and myself, I have come to the decision of pursuing the career of a Registered Nurse. This decision was not taken lightly, infact it was hard. There are so many things I could be in this world from a doctor to a zoologist and I choose to be a Registered Nurse.

For the past year and a half I have been able to help the nurses in the hospital, and experience their duties first hand. Every day I leave the hospital certain that I want to one day follow in their footsteps. I want to be able to make a difference in someone’s life and care for them during their time in need. Pursuing a career in nursing will allow me to continue the positive experiences I have had in because I will be able to directly care for the patients and impact their happiness and health. Being able to transfer to a Regis College, I know I will be getting the best education possible and I will be surrounded by dedicated students who care about their future.

When in the early stages of planning my life, I knew exactly what it was I inspired to do. I wanted to save lives. I did not know how I was going to complete that task at hand, but I knew that I was going to be saving someone’s life. So, starting nursing school was one of the jubilant moments of my life. I am ecstatic to be on my journey on becoming a well-rounded and educated nurse. Nursing is a profession that requires a great deal of care and knowledge of the human body and as a nurse I plan to be cultivated and discerning.

My name is Carmen Clipner. I am a junior attending Ohio University Zanesville. I am studying to get my Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing. I am going on thirty and I was in school before for with this same career choice, but I decided at that time that I was not sure that it was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life so I dropped out. Now I’m for sure this is what I’m meant to do and it has been a long journey and is going to be well worth it in the end. I want to help people and be a part of saving people’s lives and feel like I made a difference in my lifetime and that my time was well spent and meaningful. My goal

From an early age, I have known that one of the things I am passionate about is helping people in different ways. Because of that, I have taken the determination to study a career in which I can help and serve the people inside and outside of any job aspect, for that reason, I chose Nursing as my major and I was determined to not only be a Registered Nurse but a Nurse Practitioner. In addition, I am currently a dual enrollment student at Polk State College Gateway Charter School with a determined mind to reach my maximum potential, being a person who does not conform to the good but to the excellence. In fact, I'm proud to say that I started my undergraduate studies when I was fifteen-years-old, and I'm pleased to say that Polk State College has been an institution that has given me the access to an advanced field of education and the means by which I am achieving my personal and academic goals.

When I graduated from high school, I had a different career path, which was to become a physician assistant. I obtained my Bachelor of Science from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2006 and then attended Virginia Tech in the fall of 2006 to take prerequisites prior to applying to graduate school. I was attending Virginia Tech when the April 16, 2007 school shootings occurred. This was an especially difficult time being surrounded by so much heartache. However in the face of this heartache was hope, hope in humanity. The community came together in such despair to provide comfort and healing. The incident really made me evaluate my life and as a result, I decided to take a break from school. I had minimal health care work experience at this time and wanted to gain knowledge before starting graduate school. This life-changing experience and break led to my discovery of nursing. A year later I began the registered nursing diploma program at Sentara College of Health Sciences. Nursing school was the first time I had hands-on patient care. It was not until I had my license and began working on the floor did I truly start blossoming as a nurse. I have grown substantially and have never felt as comfortable as I do being a nurse. It validates my decision

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.

Completing my Bachelor of Science Nursing degree has been a great achievement that I am proud and grateful to complete. I completed my Associate Degree in Nursing seven years ago. When reflecting professional competency and what it meant as a new registered nurse I connected it to being competent in my new specific nursing skills related to direct patient care. Over the last twenty months I have grown through each course professionally and personally. I was able to bring to the bedside more knowledge and questioning how and why I am doing what I am doing expecting a specific outcome. My confidence has grown to a higher level of professional competency. My focus has shifted to not only specific skills but now as a leader and what I can

Going into my high school years I was driven to find the best department in a hospital setting. Two years later, I found something that defined who I was as an individual and what I wanted to represent. As a nurse… I was placed in an internship that exposed me to the beauty of life, and ongoing care. I witnessed the connection that can be made between a patient and the provider. After researching what schools had to offer me, I was aware that out of all Universities, UCLA offered one of the best Nursing programs.

As a soon to be graduate of Tell City Jr.-Sr. High School, I am planning to continue my education through Vincennes University Jasper. During my four years of high school, I was a part of the Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) for two years; in which, one of those years I served as HOSA president for our school. My HOSA teacher, Erika Hollinden, pushed me to pursue in the nursing field. She seen another side of me that I didn’t even see in myself.

In high school I decided that I wanted to work in the medical field but it wasn’t until I was a freshmen in college that I had decided that nursing was the field in which I wanted to study. In College I had taken an anatomy and physiology class that had struck my interest and although I had some struggles in the class because of the amount of criteria there was to cover I spent extra time studying and talking with the professor but most of all I enjoyed it. There was so much about the human body that fascinated me which helped close my decision on becoming a nurse. Although I had applied and talked to a few colleges about their nursing programs there was something off about the people and the program. A friend of mine was hospitalized at Medical Center of the Rockies and after many visits with him I began to talk to some of his nurses among the most caring was a girl who had graduated from Colorado Christian University. She had a smile on her face the entire time and never

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.

After many years with restraints that bounded me with limited nursing practice and fewer chances of career advancement became the motivating factor for me to seek higher educations. The year 1999 was the turning point of my nursing career. I became a registered nurse. As an RN I took advantage of career advancement that my employer offered. I took on internship in telemetry and medical emergency nursing. My experience in the telemetry department afforded me the opportunity to work as charge nurse, float to ICU and care for patients with a wide variety of diseases, and multiple cormorbities . My years in the ED taught me how to work independently with the supervision of emergency medical physicians and apply my critical thinking skills to

I have always known I wanted to be in healthcare as a child. My dreams ranged from being a Surgically Oncologist to a Dentist to a Chiropractor. As a high student my plans and dreams had changed again, I wanted to pursue a path in nursing. Being able to touch lives is a huge privilege and that is the privilege I wanted to have. After a few science courses, I began to realize I