Registered Nurse Personal Statement

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.

Being a nurse not only means compassion, dedication, and intelligence, but the profession also requires endurance, personal sacrifice, and the need for continuous education. I have learned that nurses are some of the most caring and selfless people that anyone will ever meet. Nurses are more than willing to complete challenging tasks and care for others in a way that the majority of people are unwilling to. I am driven to bring all of these qualities into my role as a future nurse practitioner, which is why I am committed to pursuing my Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP).

“Definition of a nurse: To go above and beyond the call of duty. The first to work and the last to leave. The heart and soul of caring. A unique soul who will pass through your life for a minute and impact it for an eternity. An empowered individual whom you may meet only for a 12-hour period, but who will put you and yours above theirs”-Anonymous. For the past year and a half, I have volunteered at Blaire E. Batson Children’s Hospital. It has been an amazing experience! My passion for the medical field and career of nursing has been magnified. I know without a doubt that nursing is what I want to do for the rest of my life. I long for the opportunity to care for my future patients and their families. I want to touch other people’s lives just as I have witnessed nurses do throughout my time volunteering. God has given me a passion for nursing. With my passion and compassion for others, I know I will be successful if admitted into the BSN program.

My career commitment as a nurse has grown tremendously over the past three years; through my daily experiences as a Medical Assistant. I have devoted my time as a full time student and employee of the health care profession. Both of these occupations have helped shape me into the person I want to be for as long as time allows. Daily I witness these community role models that posses abilities such as problem solving skills, promotion and protection of an individual’s advocacy all tied in with compassion to meet the health care needs of an individual.

I have always believed in giving back to the community and in sharing my competencies and skills with others. My desire to help people in the field of nursing has powered my decision to take up a graduate degree in Nursing. Overcoming the many challenges in my life has helped me to believe that I can reach any goal I have set for myself, and one of these lifelong goals is to become a nurse practitioner and to obtain

When I was a Junior in Methuen High School, I was enrolled in community service program in which I have to go to hospitals or nursing homes and take the old patients to other room, bathroom, or to their cars during the time they get discharged. During that time period I noticed that there were many old patients who didn’t had any family members who came to either visit them or take them home. The only people who were helping them were either volunteers like me or the nurses. So when it was time to decide that what career I am going to pursue, I decided to be a nurse and give the old people a family experience with my required duties and responsibilities.

When I was fourteen years old, my great-grandmother had an ischemic stroke and struggled with Broca’s Aphasia until she passed away seven months later. What she left me with, however, was a gift greater than anything of monetary value: passion for the healthcare field. For months prior to her death, I watched her devote her life to redeeming her expressive language. I was inspired tremendously by her gallantry and decided that I wanted to make a difference in the lives of others. However, when I was applying to colleges, I chose nursing because it was what my parents suggested I pursue as a career. After coming to college with the anticipation of graduating with a degree in nursing, I was disappointed when, after two years of school, I realized

My passion for healthcare cultivated because of my family. Throughout my childhood and adolescent years, I got an opportunity to volunteer helping around the nursing home where my mother worked as a licensed practical nurse. Looking back, on those experiences influenced my entire career in so many diverse ways. Learning ample amounts of wisdom from various honorable people. As a child I was always trying to help my mother, grandmother, aunts, my church take care of others in our family and the community. Once I graduated from high school I did not know if I was prepared for college. Likewise, I was not sure if I wanted to become a registered nurse and follow my mother’s footsteps. However, I did attend a technical training school and became a certified nursing assistant in 2005. During my five year gap year, I conducted research on several different areas and aspects of healthcare. Over the course of ten years I have had the opportunity to experience different segments of healthcare. From the different settings of healthcare, exploring different business opportunities offered in healthcare, and educational and technical skill trainings. These three topics really influenced my decision to pursue a healthcare career.

I come from a family filled with people in health-related careers. From a young age, I was always fascinated by my mom and aunt’s stories and recollection of their experiences and accomplishments in their health-related careers. Their stories not only amazed me they also sparked my interest in the health professions. During the summers my mom always took on home health nursing and the summer of my freshman year in high school she invited me to accompany while she tended to her patients. Through that I was able to see firsthand what nursing was all about and that influenced my decision to be a nurse.

I think public health in Nursing because my main goal is to pursue a degree in Nursing, which I believe it will fit well into my career the most. I also interest, if there is a dietary in public health because after learning about nutritious, I just love the class and the information that I learned. I also feel very motivated into wanting to do something for the community and for people in eat healthy and stay healthy. I think public health is a good field to major/minor in especially for people who feel like they want expand their career or to doing something for the community. I’m glad that I decide to major in community health because I’m able to see that Nursing is not the only way to be able to stay help people, Community health do too,

I am Alexandra (Allie) Drew and a current 2nd year nursing and midwifery student. I am applying for the 3rd year nursing second semester 2016 exchange to Malmo University in Sweden.

When I was a child I had a severe ear infection and my parents took me to the clinic to be treated. During that visit I had to observe and interact with the nurses. They provided me a comfort before treatment and they healed me with an excellent care. I admired their work and wished to be in their shoes. As I grew older, I chose to study health related sciences which brought my feet into medical field, and I am confident that I will obtain a quality nursing education helping me to be prepared. The admission to the nursing school will allow me earn a degree and help better our patients by working as a nurse. My professional goal is to become a registered nurse who provide care to people of any category especially children. I enjoyed working

I witnessed that the hospital ran off the will of its nurses, and that doctors desperately needed the nurses in order to do their job. The nurses weren’t the doctors’ assistants, they were their foundation. The nurses were the first line of defense, the face of comfort for patients and their families, and the advocates who fought for their patients relentlessly. They were warriors and nurturers all at the same time. They were, and still are everything I want to become. To say someone is “just” a nurse is an extreme contradiction. There is nothing simple or easy about nursing. Nursing requires your whole heart and mind. It is complex, and most importantly, it is purposeful. You face new challenges and make a difference in someone’s life each day, and that is exactly why I am so drawn to this

Modern nurses sit at the forefront of a profession that has changed dramatically in recent decades and has the opportunity to continue evolving as time moves forward. The work and effort of current and early nurses has paved the pathway of opportunity for new nurses and nursing students. Nurses are given the chance to define who they are within the profession. Nursing is not simply a subordinate role to physicians, but a vocation with a unique set of theories, principals, and a broad scope of practice. Finding one’s calling among those practices is akin to picking a major as a freshman in college. To do so, it is important to analyze and discover various aspects of oneself and how they mold them into a professional nurse.

Though the last couple of years I am not directly involved in Nursing in my heart I identify with being a nurse. That is my core, my identity. And I cannot wipe away the tremendous impact that the nursing field has had on me. Actually it has been a way of life, and I wish to impart some of the values that I have imbibed from being a nurse.