Steve Jobs once said, “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to truly be satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” With that being said, I love being a nurse. It wasn't always a dream of mine, but one experience can change the path of your life even if you don't realize it at the time. When I was a little girl, each summer I spent several months visiting my grandparents in Tennessee. My great aunt was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and was living in a nursing home. I spent just about every free moment visiting her with my grandmother and my cousin Tiffany. My cousin and I would push the residents around in their wheelchairs, sing to them, follow …show more content…
To understand my passion it is important to understand my struggles first. My husband and I have fought for several years to begin our family. After many years of trying naturally with no success, we have been going through fertility treatment and still have yet to come out on the other side. I want to become a Nurse Practitioner and work with men and women who long to have a family of their own just like we have. I want to be able to relate to my patients and share in their sadness and joy, educate them about their options, and give them hope when they’ve lost any possibility of a family in their future. I want to work for something I truly believe in, and for those reasons I am choosing to become a Family Nurse Practitioner. I know there is the option to attend Drexel University’s Women’s Health program, but I feel that I have a lot of dreams including Women’s Health but also in many other aspects of Family Nursing including Primary Care, Pediatrics, and Urgent care facilities. I do not want to limit myself to one specialty, as I never know what opportunities will arise in my
My motivation for pursuing a career in Family Care Nurse Practitioner comes from my various work experience, education, and life experiences. When I first started nursing school I followed a Family Care Nurse Practitioner at the clinic inside of U of L Hospital. I followed her only for a few hours but within this time, I knew that someday I wanted to have a career as a Nurse Practitioner in a hospital with patients of all ages, genders and ethnicity, as well as with the full range of medical problems.
I will be steps closer to my aspiring goals. However, most importantly the graduate program will help me reach my primary goal of impacting the health of the community as a whole. My dream of becoming a Family Nurse Practitioner will allow me to help patients increase their overall health outcomes while managing their primary health concerns. I see myself specifically working as a Family nu Nurse Practitioner with different population across the life span from newborn to geriatrics in a family clinic aiding those with less access to healthcare resources. Being working as RN in the hospital setting, I witnessed numerous family and community members fall susceptible to diseases that could have been prevented or better managed with the correct help. As a Family Nurse Practitioner, I want to effectively assess, diagnose, educate, communicate, follow-up, and provide personalized holistic care. As I mentioned before becoming a family nurse practitioner will give me the professional latitude to diagnose, prescribe, and manage the overall care of a patient including the emphasis on prevention and education throughout the patient's
The tasks of a nurse fascinates me; I have had several opportunities to observe nurses in hospitals and I find their work intriguing. I have always been interested in the health field and performing the jobs of a medical professional. Ever since the age of twelve, I have known I wanted to attend a university and pursue a career in the health field. I have always had an interest in my science courses, specifically biology and chemistry and have excelled in these areas. I want to be able to receive the best education possible and make my parents and community proud. I wish to do more for my community than just being a typical nurse and I will be able to do more by becoming a nurse practitioner.
A day in the life as a CNA (Certified Nurse Aide) can have its ups and its downs. As a CNA you can work in a couple different areas of the nursing field, you have options of where you want to be and you are not finite to any certain place. Most CNA’s start out working in a nursing home then exude to other places such as hospitals. As a nurse aide you have many options of being in a certain field of nursing. That is what I love about nursing; it is versatile and you can work wherever you want in the country. You can travel and see places you haven’t seen while doing what you love to do as a career.
It is not a crime to dream. Every individual sets high exceptions for what career they want. Some dream of becoming the President of the United States of America, a scientist, or even a therapist. I want a career where I can make an impact on the world. My whole life revolves around wanting to work in the medical field. My dream is becoming a nurse practitioner. I want to help care for people, their families, and to work in the field where everyday is different. I want to hold the family members hands and tell them that everything is alright. I not only want to make a difference in the lives of my patients, i also hope to make a difference in the nursing and medical field in general. to achieve the dream of becoming a nurse practitioner, I must drop the habits that hold me back and slow me down right now. Bad habits not only slow my progress my habits but also keep me from moving forward. Giving up too soon, my lack of focus, and my perfectionism hold me back in everyday life.
At this moment in time I am unsure of the nursing role that I am seeking, I am learning more about family nurse practitioner and acute care nurse practitioner as the days go by. Each field has its benefits, and whether I choose to go with FNP or Acute care I know that I will be making a positive difference in the field of nursing. Although I am a little bit unsure at this time, I feel that I am leaning more towards acute care. I love the fact that a nurse practitioner can work in many different specialties like being a nurse practitioner midwife, to working in the emergency department or even working at a clinic in a rural area, the possibilities for nurse practitioners are endless and I am very grateful to be in this program. Working at the hospital provides exposure to many different ailments, and being able to focus on one specific ailment and treat it is where my interest is in. I find the cardiac system to be complex and interesting, arterial lines, chest tubes, and hemodynamics are very interesting to me.
My love for nursing began early in my life; in high school, my continuing desire to become a nurse resulted in my applying and being accepted to Midwestern State University. There, I received a BSN and became a registered nurse. My experience at Midwestern prepared me for a successful career by instilling confidence within me as I joined the workforce. As my experience grew and years went by, I became eager to further my education and pursue my master's degree. Then life happened: the two-legged version that requires love, compassion, energy, and time. Now that my child is in school, with the support of my family, I am ready and dedicated to become a family nurse practitioner.
The career I am interested in studying for is a Nurse Practitioner. As I have learned more in the healthcare field I have become more interested in becoming a Nurse Practitioner. A Nurse Practitioner is a more advanced Registered Nurse and they are trained to provide the diagnosis of acute illnesses and chronic illnesses. Before you become a Nurse Practitioner, you should become a Registered Nurse. This requires you to get a bachelor’s of science degree.
I am currently a Pre-nursing major and will be attending Indiana University Bloomington in the fall. My career aspirations are to get a bachelor’s degree in nursing and continue my education to become a midwife.
Nurse Practitioner is one of the fastest growing advanced practice nursing roles in Canada (Canadian Institute of Health Information, 2010). As a Registered Nurse with 14 years’ experience in various health care settings, I believe that the basic health care promotion activities should start from community. Improving primary health care availabilities can reduce the readmissions and long waits in ER departments, in turn decreasing the huge financial burden on hospitals. As a Nurse Practitioner, this gives me opportunity to advance my career through leadership and Research. I completed Bachelor of Nursing in 2003 and Master of Nursing in 2010.
I knew I could be a nurse when I watched blood ooze from my brother’s face. His eyes dripping tears, and body shaking from being scared, he did not know what to do. I however, did not flinch once when I wiped the blood off his small face and hands. He was just two and I remember thinking how I had to fix him. I had to make sure his nose, his forehead, and the of side of his face was okay. I did not think twice about touching blood, or how his whole nose was black and blue. In that moment I was selfless. I chose nursing because I am capable of putting others before me. I am selfless enough to understand what it means to be a nurse, and have to be a mother, a daughter, and a whole family in a patient’s time of need. I am independent, and strong enough to deal with challenges and make the right decisions. In my soul I know I am meant to help people and fix their hurting and sadness. I chose being a nurse, because I am
Going back to when I was a novice nurse, I was nervous, scared, afraid of making medication error, charting errors or fail to recognized patients worsening symptoms. These fears, made me vigilant, focused and kept me on my toes at all times. No matter which part of nursing I ended up as I grew up the from medical surgical nursing to stepdown unit nursing to intensive care nursing, I felt those fears in every step of my growth and they helped me be a better nurse for my pateints. Today, I am in the advanced practitioner program to become a nurse practitioner who is responsible for: interviewing, assessing, diagnosing, counseling and treating patients. To provide safe and quality healthcare, I am expected to have good critical thinking and decision making abilities (Maten-Speksnijder, Grypdonck, Pool, & Streumer, 2012). while I can recognize clinically deteriorating patients and recommend treatments, I am now responsible for providing treatments. I am now recognizing that facts about being not only responsible for the patient, but also to provide safe care that keeps the patient out of the hospital and out of the ICU. Knowing these facts, I am yet again, faced with the fears of my limited clinical practice knowledge as a practitioner. The amount of information that I have received and learned during this clinical rotation was both exciting and overwhelming at the same time, because I realized as a novice student nurse practitioner (NP), the limited depth of
I am eager to pursue a career in which is challenging but rewarding, becoming a paediatric nurse would allow me to fulfil this aspiration. Nursing is a career for those who are reliable, empathetic, patient and know how to develop a connection with a patient emotionally as well as their family through difficult times. I have these skills and I truly want to make a difference in a patient's life. In the NHS, the role of a nurse is changing every day, as nurses are getting opportunities to become more involved in the responsibility of patients well-being and health and to become more specialised in different areas such as chemotherapy, surgery, clinical and much more. In studying for a degree in paediatric nursing I am inspired to make most of these opportunities to further my career.
Do you like helping people? I’ve always had a passion for helping people and being in the field of medicine at a young age. Being a nurse gives me a chance to potentially save a life. This profession will also help me become financially stable in my life and give me a chance to learn exciting new things. All of this will motivate me to achieve my goal of becoming the best nurse I can be.
In fact, there are several reasons why I chose nursing as my profession. First and foremost is that I want to focus on changing people’s lives (Nurse Journal, 2016). As a nurse, I would study the life's value when I would be seeing individuals struggling to remain alive. Since I am fully aware that each life's breadth is a gift, I would, therefore, understand this lesson further as I would be nursing various patients daily. I greatly respect human life, I possess strong values and I am compassionate for empathy and suffering, factors that have further attracted me to the nursing profession. Second, nursing profession allows continuous learning. As I like learning, I would possess unlimited opportunities for advancing my medical knowledge. As such, I would capable of choosing to work in various departments, train to become a medical assistant and as well enter the nursing management where I would grow and mentor new nurses through sharing my knowledge