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Personal Statement Of Purpose To Become A Certified Nurse

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As a young man coming out of high school, like the majority of people at that age, I had a difficult time making a career decision. Knowing that I did not want to be in school for another long period of time, I decided to become an Automotive
Technician. A few years later, I decided it was not the career that I saw myself in for the long ride. I started doing research on what would work best for me and the Emergency Medical Field looks very exciting and rewarding. A few weeks later
I enrolled in an Emergency Medical Technician course at the local community college during the summer semester. A couple of days into the program, I notice that it was very challenging since everything was new to me. Knowing that my grades were on the low end, …show more content…

With the help of many nurses on different departments and family members’ nurses, I decided that nursing is something that I wanted to get into. Knowing that I had only my paramedic credits for transfer, I sign up for pre requisites towards nursing. In the mean time I completed the Certified Nurse
Assistance course to get familiarized with what it meant to become a nurse’s assistance before jumping into the nurse role. While doing clinicals at different nursing homes, I realized that this is what I am supposed to do for a living. Helping people in need during a hospital rotation is a lot different than during an emergency situation in the back of an ambulance. I had more time to get to know the patient and create a trust between each other. Becoming an RN can lead to many different career paths. I would be able to continue working for Superior Ambulance on a critical transport nurse ambulance and that can become very challenging since I would be dealing with very critical patients that would need to get transport from one facility to another. I would also prefer to work between the Emergency Department and the Intensive

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