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Public Health Nursing Personal Statement

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When first beginning my journey at UC Merced I was like most undergraduate students, confused and overwhelmed, on what major to choose. I didn’t know what I wanted to do here at UC Merced whether it was to pursue a degree in biology or psychology. I would later come to realize that I wanted neither of those things. As a freshman, I took the course Public Health 005 which is Global Health. Global Health drew me to really take an interest in Public Health. This course helped me with the development of analytical and methodological skills to effectively address important population health challenges in a global context. I like to consider myself a humanitarian and when learning about global issues, it helped me enhance my ability to apply on how to properly …show more content…

I also find a lot of joy in working with people, especially children. Besides the fact that I can help shape other people’s lives with Public Health, it is important to think globally because it is easy to forget about global problems when we are too focused on our own. Public Health as a major has taught me a lot about the logistics of health. Public Health nursing is something I have done personal research on. Public Health Nursing is a career I have thought about which focuses on improving population health by emphasizing prevention, and attending to multiple determinants of health. I think having gone on a research trip to Peru recently helped me realize that I enjoy conducting research and most of all interacting with people from different cultures and really trying to understand them. On my trip, I had the opportunity of meeting people who live in ST. Thomas (a place in the amazon jungle). When speaking to them I felt that I really tried to understand what they were doing, how they lived their life and what they could do to really extend their year a lot

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