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Why Nursing Application

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Why are you applying to nursing school?
In 4th grade I skipped back from the library carrying a green buckram book which read Nurses. Gleefully I told my mom “I know what I want to be when I grow up, a nurse!” Thirty years pass. I am a middle aged woman awaiting my mother’s arrival to give her the good news, “mother, I have decided to become a nurse.” Over three decades, it appears the little girl inside me, never gave up on her dream.
My childhood fascination with nursing likely began due to my familiarity with hospitals. I suffered severe allergies, which lead to panic bustle rides to Lakeland Memorial Hospital in attempts to regulate my asthma attacks. By the age of eight I caught pneumonia, three times. Eventually, after puberty, I outgrew the attacks, yet then suffered severe constipation and migraine headaches which once again acquainted me with the environment of stethoscopes and white caps (1970’s). I needed to learn to smile through the pain and I learned an important lesson in compassion. The compassion exhibited by the hospital staff was instrumental during my parents’ absence. I did not become fearful child. …show more content…

My mother was complaining of a severe headache. I spent the night with her and in the morning I boiled an egg and made her a cup of coffee; when I heard the “blup” of the dunked egg inside the coffee, I realized this was not a migraine. I drove her to South Miami hospital. The level of attentiveness, care and competence throughout my mother’s week admission was extraordinary. The experience left such an impact; I had been considering going back to school for nursing for quite some time before this, but the familiar setting tipped the scales. I was so impressed by her treatment that I knew; I too wanted to help people in this

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