Personal Statement: A Career As A Nurse

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 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.

I was born january 12, 1998 in the city of Mexico. My parent decided to come to the US to give me and my brothers a better life and to have the opportunity of a better education. The education my parents were not able to have because they had to drop out of school at a very young age to work. My parent have always told me that education is the most valuable thing in life a person could have. My father is a construction worker he always comes home exhausted and he tell me to study hard so that i won't have to work in really difficult job with a low pay.

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.

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.

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.

I am an NMC Registered Nurse. I have completed Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Nepal and have successfully undertaken ONP at University of Sunderland. I have got nearly 2 years of work experience in Nepal and working currently over a year as a registered nurse at Barnes court Nursing home. I have got IT skills and can use computer without any problem. As studying in University, I had to do presentation, prepare slides, use different programmes, do research and submit case and research reports.

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.

When I started school a few years back, I wasn’t really sure if becoming an RN was something I really wanted. I’m compassionate, caring, and friendly, but somehow I was still unsure if I was going to fit in this kind of environment. I asked people who were already in the nursing field about their opinions on this career. I searched around to know the good and bad about becoming a nurse. I wanted to know what to expect. I wanted to find a sign, a specific word or line that tells me “This is what you should do”. But I realize that the main point here is to focus on me. I needed to know what I wanted, and what I enjoy doing. I was too busy and confused listening to other’s people opinions and experiences that I forgot to listen to my own opinion. I forgot to listen to my own voice. Who am I? What do I want? What makes me happy? So I start looking at myself and see the qualities I have. I’m friendly. I talked to everyone. I’m generous and caring. I have compassion for others in need. Helping people overcome their problems fills my heart with joy. I want everyone to be happy because I believe that if everyone is happy I will be too. All this qualities seem fitting to be a nurse, but do I have what it takes? Am I strong enough to do such duties that required to take care of a patient? Health wise, I don’t have a chronic disease, nor do I feel weak to carry such a long hour’s shift. “I’m ok”, “I can do this” I though. I’m smart and I

“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 have wanted to be a nurse since I graduated high school in 2010. A lot of time was spent debating and I ended up putting it off for years. I got pregnant in 2014 with my son and had many positive experiences with nurses during the pregnancy. When I went into labour in March of 2015, I spent a whole 27 hours in the labour and delivery room with different nurses. They were all so wonderful. During this time, I started to ask questions to pass the time. I then learned a lot of what it was like to be a nurse in maternity. This is when I decided that I was going to start school to become what I always wanted to be.

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.

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