Personal Statement : Personal Care

As an acute care nurse practitioner I hope to utilize my experience as an Intensive Care Unit nurse along with clinical knowledge and skills acquired through a graduate level program to provide the highest quality patient care. In my current role, I place high value on patient-family centered care and advocacy as well as commitment to lifelong learning. I have built my nursing career upon these values. I am excited to begin the journey of becoming an acute care nurse practitioner and to further my education and expand my scope of practice in the field of critical care, for which I have already developed a passion.

I am drawn to family medicine by this same appreciation for humanism that is evident to me among practitioners in this field. I am similarly motivated and excited by the intellectual challenges, scope, and meaningfulness offered by a career in family medicine. I strive to join a residency program that will provide rigorous clinical training among a diverse patient population while offering extensive resident responsibility for patient care. I believe that a family medicine residency program will inspire me to excel and arm me with the tools I need to achieve my future goals. Upon completion of residency, I aim to devote myself to serving the underserved while dedicating time to conducting research and participating in community and medical

I envision the next ten years to be a time of intense personal growth. I will be building upon my strengths and improving my weaknesses. I hope to be fulfilling my goals and crossing things off of my bucket list. I hope to have the financial security to be able to help my mother retire, and help my younger brother to finish graduate school. I hope to be involved within my community, whether through volunteer work or a community-based organization. As for my career, I see myself working as a primary care physician. I am drawn to the long-term comprehensive care aspect of Internal Medicine and the opportunity to work with a diverse patient population in a variety of settings. This role aligns with my personal values in regards to health maintenance.

I will like to work within a health sector, namely the National Health Service (NHS). The NHS is the biggest publicly funded health service in the world and created for good healthcare to everyone despite wealth. The NHS employs more than 1.5 million people, making it the top five world's largest workforce. England is the biggest part of the system, caters to 54.3 million population and employing around 1.2 million people in England.

“Thirty Percent of adult Americans are overweight,” according to the American Medical Association (CDCP 54). America is a smaller version of the whole world. When the country with the greatest amounts of services of all sorts, has a third of its population overweight there must be a problem. It has become so common to be overweight, or even obese, that even weight control no longer appeals to those individuals as any important action. Weight control, is the process of maintaining a healthy body weight (Klein). Many people blame their poor body shape on not knowing the correct information. There is not too much to know, all there is to a healthy life, is the use of sources that are there for their own good. In other words people need a

Working as a therapist can be exhausting, but yet, rewarding at the same time. As a therapist we deal with daily encounters of other people’s lives, issues, problems etc. Taking multiple cases of providing therapeutic interventions has an effect on the human body and the psyche. The wear and tear over time begins to haunt us without recognizing how neglectful we can be towards ourselves because our focus is for the sake of other people’s sanity. The profession is hard, and can be detrimental to professionals who do not take care of themselves. Self-care is an important aspect when working as a therapist. Our health, mental health, spiritual values, etc. should matter just as the client’s health, mental health and spiritual values matters

Personal Statement I was drawn to the medical field due to my exposure to health implications faced by mother and myself. During my senior year at Montgomery College I diagnosed with thyroid disorder which led to hyperthyroidism. As a care giver for my mother who suffered from dementia my feeling was to build and maintain outstanding health care services which began to form. The affordability and quality of health care that my mother and I have received is something that I have always taken for granted as every citizen should have right to access to the highest standard of physical and mental health. My goal is to create an important contribution to the health of people in my community through efficient management and delivery of health care services.

Healthcare is one of the largest growing fields with increasing demands every day. In the past, healthcare was thought to be a work force of doctors, nurses and other medical staff but it has evolved into a large industry with a need for managers and administration. This management and administration has brought a new skillset to the field that strongly interests me. I spent the first two years of my undergraduate education in pharmacy school but through my many job shadows I fell in love with the business side of the health industry. I became fascinated by healthcare administration because of the potential opportunities such as: the ability to combine my talents of leadership and organization with my passion of health; the capacity to analyze and predict future trends to help my organization stay ahead therefore becoming a leader in industry; and the capability to understand medical professionals and their skills to lead and direct them in ways that will create a super-team.

As a health care provider, it is extremely important to be aware of different resources that can be used to help you provide the highest quality of care to each patient. In this paper, I will touch on several websites that discuss different topics of maternal, infant, and child health. Many of these websites include educational information that can be passed on to women of child bearing age, those who are expecting, and those caring for infants.

Obesity in America is an ever consuming epidemic that not only raises health care cost, but brings on an assortment of diseases and lifelong illnesses. Those who chose not to change are guaranteeing a life full of not only food, but full of self-implosion for their future generations. Obesity has been labeled a disease by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) and for good reason. When one choose or sometime does not choose to become obese they are at risk for multiple side effects that could not only harm them, but they’re family as well. When we do care for ourselves how we can show our future generations to care for themselves.

Self-care in nursing is a very important aspect when it comes to being a successful RN. In order to perform well at your job and in order to take care of your patients, you must take care of yourself. Many people have different forms of self-care whether that be going to church, getting exercise, spending time with your, or even taking a vacation. Whatever self-care means to you; it is a major part of nursing in order to take care of your patients. This is so important because it has a domino effect on all parties involved; if you don’t take care of yourself how can you care for a sick, ill patient. One of the major nursing theorist that strongly advocated for self-care was Dorthea Orem (Black, 2014). For Dorthea self-care and personal health were hand in hand with one another (Black, 2014).

. Soon, I realized that family medicine was the specialty that fulfills my passion for providing integrated/comprehensive and continuing care, both preventive and therapeutic for all patients in different stages of their lives from prenatal to end of life and not just at a certain point or a particular time. It would allow me to fulfill my interest in pediatrics and at the same time still able to handle other aspects of medicine and patient populations. My desire to offer preventive care to my patients and participate in retarding and preventing many diseases is another factor that enhanced my passion to family medicine. I believe as a doctor, my job is not just to treat diseases but also to help people live healthier life and preserve their

The year was 2012: The Affordable Care Act was still in its infancy and I had just moved to Germany, where I would spend two years as a full-time volunteer. Amongst many other responsibilities, I often found myself in hospitals – gaining my first exposure to socialized medicine. It was during this time my fascination with healthcare management and the contrasting methods of delivery was realized. My time spent working with Franklin County Medical Center has given me a deep appreciation for rural, critical access hospitals and the vital role they play in the overall health of a community.

Nothing beats the summer’s heat than being able to provide service for local organizations while engaging in great learning experiences that could expand the knowledge of a specific field. During the summer of 2017, I decided to volunteer and commit one hundred thirty hours to a local, nonprofit hospital that contributes excellent care to their patients and families. I knew that it would take a lot of personal commitment in order to achieve this goal especially since it was during the summer time, but I pushed myself to put my heart and mind into it until I successfully reach the goal. What really made me to join the volunteer team was the mission and the desire to make a different in patients’ lives. The story of how the hospital was founded

The goal I chose is to live a healthy lifestyle which in terms will add years to my life. In this transformation I chose to eat healthier, exercise more, drink plenty water and add supplements to my personal wellness plan. I will devote a significant amount of time to each area of this wellness plan over the next eight weeks to get the ultimate results. Below are specific goals and a plan of action that I will be doing over the course of eight weeks; in an effort to make lifestyle changes. I will be reviewing the various area of my health deciding which areas I would like to make improvements. My present situation is that I have gained a significant amount of weight that has made my life a little uncomfortable. I started by making a chart to track my plan of action in each area that I will be working on.