Personal Statement Of Purpose To Become A Pediatric Nurse

I qualified as a paediatric nurse in 2006 and have over 10 years experience working in a variety of roles mostly acute services as outlined above.

I want to be a pediatric nurse. I absolutely adore children. I have been a preschool teacher for 4 years while I am continuing my education at Lonestar college to finish my prerequisite and get into nursing school. I desire to not only learn but achieve excellence. I go above and beyond what is required of me. I graduated from Lonestar College Cyfair with honors. I graduated cum laude and proud member of the prestigious Phi Theta Kappa honor society. I also graduated from Lonestar honors college. This is college allowed me to go beyond what I am capable of and set the standard for my academic excellence. The honors college help to broaden my horizon and can perform research that has never been done before. This research was unique to me I did

Children get injured or sick every day, and it doesn’t matter whether the child goes to a doctor or a pediatrician they are still tended to by a pediatric nurse. A pediatric nurse has to have many qualities. They also have to take many different classes. A pediatric nurse’s pay can vary from location to location depending on where they are working. Pediatric nurses must endure many different things to make it into this particular work field, and have many different qualities.

As I begin my fifth year of working as a nurse practitioner in a leading children’s hospital, I am certain the pediatric acute care setting is where I will continue my career of service to children and their families. Although I hold a masters degree in nursing and have been a primary care certified pediatric nurse practitioner for many years, I wish to expand my knowledge of pediatric nursing to encompass the unique and challenging aspects of pediatric acute care.

Because of my mother’s and sister’s involvement in the medical field, I have gained a personal connection with wanting to continue in their footsteps. I am going to attend The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to pursue my career as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. I would like to become a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in order to provide the best care for small children. I recently obtained my Certified Patient Care Technician certification while in high school, which means I am certified to work in a hospital. The next step is attending at UAB where there is a rigorous academic curriculum, the Pre-Nursing Dean’s Scholar program, for students whose main objective is nursing. I am currently in this program, which is one stepping

I am a highly motivated licensed practical nurse pursuing an RN degree simply because I believe this field offers diverse knowledge and skills that are relevant to the modern day which is more diverse compared to LPN. This short scenario is an example of the how the nursing care I have provided has influenced my career and my decision to continue my education. I had a seventy-one-year-old male patient with primary medical history of 99% occlusion in the carotid artery and intermittent chest pain admitted to my facility for conservative treatment following hospitalization for an unwitnessed fall and was found to have subdural hematoma and multiple facial bone fractures. Patient had no evacuation and no coronary cauterization and anti-platelet therapy. However, the patient had signed the advanced directive form for “full code” thirty-six hours after admission patient noted to have flat affect although he had no specific

After high school, I am planning to transfer to a four-year university. I would like to get the necessary degree to become a pediatrician. Sometimes thing do not always go as planned and you must have a backup plan. If I do not end up going to four-year university, I plan on going to a community college to a get a job where a major degree is not needed. I would probably go to a community college to become a certified nursing assistant. I would want to become a CNA because my dream would be to work in the medical field.

Throughout my childhood and teens I have grown up watching shows such as causality and holby city which inspired me dramatically as it allowed me to gain more knowledge and understanding about a hospital environment. From then I knew I wanted to be a child nurse and I wanted it to be part of my everyday life. As soon as I started researching the role of a child nurse, I knew it was the perfect career for me as children’s nurse.

This profession of pediatric nursing pertains to infants, toddlers, and young adults under the age of 17, that are in need for any type of medical attention during their stages of their childhood. They treat common illnesses like hand, foot, and mouth disease, scarlet fever, and the chicken pox. Their job is to form a relationship with the adolescent and their caregiver to get to know them and how they think. Most children have a fear with seeing doctors because their first thought is they are getting a shot, so they have learned skills to calm them ("Pediatric Nursing"). They help aid the patient’s family in gathering the information on the well-being of their child and inform them on the proper growth of their child. This job allows one to be at a child’s beck and call when they are in need. Although the job of a pediatric nurse has some drawbacks, the benefits, and future of the career make it one of the best positions in the healthcare field.

"It does not matter the road you take, or how long it takes you to reach your goal, it only matter that you reach it in the end." (-Anonymous) I start my morning off with this quote daily. To me, it represents who I am on so many levels and why I want to be a nurse. I have not always wanted to pursue a nursing degree. I have always known the medical field was my passion, but I often thought I was needed in other areas. I can look back now at the paths I have gone down and can see how each path God used to show me where I truly needed to be.

Throughout my High School career I have known what I want to study, and what I want to be for the rest of my life; I want to major in Nursing, and become a Registered Nurse. I was about eight years old when I had first been interested in all the shows and movies incorporating the health field. Consequently, it was more recent that I had accustomed this field is for me. The experience I encountered at clinicals to become a CNA had made me truly recognize that this was for me. I love being able to help others. I feel my best knowing I have just helped somebody. I have all the skills that I know will get me to where I need to be to have a successful college career, and future as a Registered Nurse. A great deal of students nowadays

My reasons for wanting to pursue a career in the health field include helping others and becoming a better person for it. I have begun to take health based classes such as Health Science I and II, hoping to partake in Nursing Fundamentals as a senior next year. I have begun to research colleges that award the degrees I would need to become a pediatric nurse. Through the classes that I have taken, I have learned lessons ranging from skills to working as a team in the health field. Last year I received an award for Health Science I for academic excellence. There are many more reasons leading me up to the decision of becoming the person I want to be that works in the health field.

I’m going to go to community college to get my associates degree in nursing chose nursing because I love to take care of people and to be around them I want to become an Rn at Kaiser Hospital because they are a big company and a lot of people go there to get taken care of. I mainly love kids that’s why I’m doing it.

The establishment of a strategic career plan assists in organizing an individual’s goals and aspirations into a successful career path. By taking the time to consider all options, delineating pros and cons, an individual may be able to determine what are correct career choices in regards to their needs, as they advance their career. It is through this thoughtful consideration of a career vision, of what is an ideal work situation, researching employment opportunities, taking time to network with colleagues, in preparation for career advancement such as a professional portfolio, which will make an individual successful in their endeavor to reach the pinnacle of their career (Breau & Rheaume, 2014).

When enquiring why you chose the career path you have chosen it’s simple to say you did this because you “like it”. However, when it comes to the area of education that cannot be your only reason as to why you chose this pathway and a desire to work with children is not a valid reason either. I am willing to say, that I started on this path for that identical reason. I spent my high school years babysitting the neighbor’s kids and spent my summers being a counselor at the local camp and thoroughly appreciated each minute of it. This lead me to believe, that because I adored working with children from toddlers to school age, that would be enough to get me through this career. However, I remain delighted to say, that while participating in my education classes and experiencing what it is like to work in a Preschool classroom, my reasoning’s for why I continue down this route have altered.