Personal Statement: A Career As A Nurse

“What do I want to be” was never a question I pondered too deeply. The sudden death of my father to an unknown health condition and 5months thereafter, the tragic loss of my mother helped fostered a caring and compassionate spirit often alluded by many in describing my personality. I suppose this translated to why I find it easy and satisfying to help and serve others, most especially those in a medically vulnerable state. Thus, choosing a healthcare professional, specifically nursing was a natural fit for me. The ability to be able to care for patients and bring about a meaningful change in their life serves as an outlet for me. It makes me confident to think I could have nursed my parents back to good health if I was an adult or was in this career when they were sick. However, as a ten years old living in a developing nation with inadequate accessibility to healthcare services, I was limited in what I could have done. Today, however the story is different. My story is now defined by what I am doing and what I hope to do to better save and impact lives.

I cannot attribute my desire of becoming a nurse to following the footsteps of a family member, nor caring for a sick family member as I was growing up. I am a first generation high school student, furthermore, a college graduate. I became a mother at the very young age of sixteen. Being so young and growing up without the care of my parents, it was always said I, too, would end up in a rough situation and not be able to care for my child being so young myself. I continued out my days and nights being a high school teen mom. I graduated from high school in three years by attending night school while I was pregnant; allowing me to finish school sooner and obtain a better job that would allow me to take care of my son.

The nursing field gives a person the opportunity to work with and care for elderly, sick, and injured patients. I want to join the registered nurse team because they take on multiple medical settings. Registered nurses are known as RNs. They are responsible for multiple things. Being a RN has a lot of responsibility. The topics I will be covering are: job description, specialties, trends, salary, benefits, and required trainings. These are essential things that a person needs to know before going into nursing school.

My lifetime goal is to become a Registered Nurse since I was 18 years old, but, unfortunately I did not have the opportunity to go college, but to go to a technical school and get a medical assistant degree. Since then, I worked in many different doctors’ office in Florida as a Medical Assistant until 2 years ago when I met my husband and moved to Maryland. Luckily, with my husband's support, I have been having the opportunity to go back to school and continue my education.

Strength can be said to come from a position of having the power to handle a certain situation. As I have been working in healthcare for a while, I have expertise in clinical performance which is my strength. Though it is at times overwhelming, talking to patients and advocating for them is an area I am most comfortable with. I advocate for them by reporting to the nurse a change in a patient’s status and reporting it promptly; whether a patient is hypoglycemic or hypotensive. Being a nursing assistant gives the necessary insight to acknowledge areas that need to be prioritized when dealing with many patients, such as what patient to attend too first. As a nursing student also and working as a patient care associate gives me a better understanding to identify these certain changes.

The theory is explained on the idea that the increased comfort of a patient or their family, the more they are ready to accept and react to the treatment plan. The theory can also be applied to the nursing profession in the sense that

Registered Nurse A career as a registered nurse is to, “Save one life, you’re a hero. Save 100 life’s you’re a nurse.” which is rewarding and demanding. Nurses often work hours, with day and long night weekend hours, but the demand for nurses is growing, and many nurses express high job satisfaction.

As a young child, I always knew that when I grew up I wanted a career that would allow me to help others. While in the hospital undergoing surgeries and treatment for my skin cancer, I encountered a variety of different nurses. Some of those nurses were really nice, others were not. The ones who spend some time talking with me, where the ones who made my day much better. It was during that hospital stay that I decided I wanted to become a nurse. I wanted to be the nurse who would make a positive impact in a patient’s life. Due to a number of unforeseen events in my life, I was unable to start nursing school as planned after graduating from high school. I worked in the restaurant business for a number of years and eventually met my husband who was recovering

Being young and tied up with high school and college is just one big hurricane waiting to happen. Sometimes I wake up and ask myself why am I doing the things I have done or are going to do but I bite my lip and keep moving forward. Growing up fast is very hard and can put a lot of stress on your back, but I got to keep in mind what my future will be like if I continue going the path I am now. I'm doing this for myself and also to prove a point to my family that no matter what happens or what life throws at you I can manage my way through it. My life is not as easy as I make it out to look from working with my dad, going to Union County Early College and wanting to become a nurse, my life is all over the place.

I have wanted to be a nurse or a teacher for as long as I can recall. However, when I was in high school I felt as if I had a calling to serve in the military. At that time, I was very naïve and did not understand how the military worked, but I knew I wanted to serve. Then, September 11, 2001 happened and I knew what I had to do. That is when I made the decision to become a nurse and serve in the United States Navy.

Graduating this year from high school is going to be a major turning point in my life where important decisions will be made. Even if I am ready or not decisions will be made and new obstacles will come my way especially when it comes to college. My choice of attending college stems from me wanting to earn a good education and successful job. I plan on furthering my education in nursing. My goal is to learn more about nursing and the medical field that way I can become a Registered Nurse and eventually work with moms’ and babies in labor and delivery.

“There is no human that ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail, recover, and improve, the better you are as a person.” This quote, by Chris Hardwick, helped drive my motivation to succeed despite failing multiple times. During the summer of 2015, I completed the Bachelor of Science in Health Care Management program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Excited to begin a new chapter in my life, I submitted numerous applications to employers that were actively hiring. Unaware of the meaning of my status as a newly graduated individual on the market, I applied for mid-level manager positions with very little work experience. During this time, I had just one year of health care experience from working at Walgreen’s Pharmacy as a Pharmacy Technician and Baptist Health Systems as a Patient Access

I've wanted to be a nurse ever since I was a little girl. My stuffed animals, and my poor dog, would always have "injuries" that needed tending to. A band-aid here or some gauze there. After I graduated high school, I got married and then got pregnant so college got shoved aside. A few years later, after divorcing, I remarried and decided I would go to school. Well, I tried two times and ended up pregnant each time, so I waited. Finally, third times the charm, I got into a LPN class. Halfway through I found out I was pregnant again. I was determined to finish and become a nurse. I did it! I graduated in December and had my fourth child in January. Time to go to work! I went to work at a residential living center for people with disabilities.

A major catalyst in my determination to follow in this nursing field was the experience I had from a health and medical science fair. When I was a freshman in highschool, I had always placed my education first, my goals were planned so I would not lose track. I enrolled in a class called, Health and Wellness Careers. But what I did not sign up for was the fact that the class was required to participate in a health and science fair. Everyone was to conduct an experiment and present it to the whole school. Being a shy girl myself, I felt that my whole world had been destroyed. I would have

The first word that comes to mind when I think of nurses is hard work. This is because nurse’s continuity have to work hard in their education and career. According to a family friend of mine, Heather, who has worked in the psych ward for 20+ years it is anything but ‘easy’. She told me the implications of what it really means to be a nurse. The 12 hour shifts on your feet, the staggering amount of bodily fluids you are working with and covered in, and of course tough patients. However, at the very end of her tangent she said “at the end of the day you do make a difference in the world. Nurse's play an important role in healthcare, they are the support of the hospital. They are a part of an assembly line that provides patients the care they need. According to a yearly conducted survey, nurses are one of the top three trusted professionals. There is a reason why people trust nurses far more than doctors. Nurses create a stable environment and are more interactive with patients. They are the foundation of all that is good and efficient in the hospitals. I want to be deserving of someone’s trust, I find it honorable. I can truly see myself as a nurse because I have strayed away from nursing in pursuit of other ambitions and have went back to nursing.