Nursing Personal Statement

My mom has worked in hospitals since before I was born. From being a nurse to becoming a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, she spent a lot of time in hospitals, which meant her family did too. After spending many nights and even holidays at them, hospitals became like a second home to me; and the staff, a family. I learned to love everything about hospitals: the smell, cleanliness, layout, and even the chaos. I saw how controlled yet sincere everything was. I saw and learned things wandering around hospitals that many others will never understand.

I originally developed an interest in the field of nursing when I saw the desperate need that people have for education on the responsibility they have to look after their own health and the health of persons entrusted to their care. People who haven’t been educated and are in need of help and assistance dearly need this help and God has entrusted us with the same task he gave to Adam ‘“... have dominion over... every living thing that moves upon the earth.”’ and with dominion comes the responsibility to care for those entrusted to you. The thing I love most about nursing is seeing people thrive when you make an effort to help

These moments were both thrilling and daunting, but most importantly, they allowed me to help people in need. As the paramedics arrived and took over with their extensive training, I found myself wanting to be a part of something bigger. With that spark of interest, I began job shadowing nurses in various units at the Colchester East Hants Health Centre, this is where I fell in love with the profession. As I wait eagerly for my nursing education to begin, I spend my time lifeguarding, swimming instructing, and teaching basic workplace first aid courses. Aside from the various job titles I have at the Rath Eastlink Community Centre, I also spend numerous hours volunteering.

There I found exactly what I was looking for in a profession; the love of learning, personal interaction and critical thinking all while working as part of team to care for people in their greatest time of need. Throughout my time in the program, I learned to excel taking care of patients by being inquisitive during my time in

Creighton University Hospital was my first introduction to hospital life, and boy was it a wakeup call. I was actually starting pre-med at UNO when I obtained my nursing assistant certificate and started at Creighton. After months of seeing how hard nurse’s work and how they were really the back bones of health care, I changed my major to nursing. I wanted to be a part of something more profound than myself, to heed the call of helping the sick and injured and to provide care to those who could not help themselves. I have always thought that if I could help save just one life, or touch someone’s life in some way,

In this paper I will be identifying my stance on nursing, and express how my personal values and goals align with a nursing career. Along with illustrating my past experiences that have encouraged a path in the health care field, I will also be exploring the view of nursing as told in two academic sources and comparing these different perspectives.

The nurses provided opportunities for me to observe procedures such as a fetal blood transfusion. This job solidified my desire to be a nurse and I was not going to let anything stop me from pursuing my dream. I am so grateful for the nurses I worked with who inspired me and taught me what kind of nurse I want to

Working at this daycare made me realize that I love working with kids and helping them. As time went by I realize I just didn’t want to be a nurse I wanted to be a specific nurse who worked with kids which was a pediatric nurse. I believe that every child needs all the love and care they can get rather it’s from a family member or a nurse or doctor. I feel that children’s deserves the proper medical attention.

or the last four years, I have had the honor to serve as a staff RN at two Level 1 trauma teaching medical centers. I can honestly say that from my experiences, I have grown tremendously as a nurse and as a person from a professional and personal standpoint. I would not trade these experiences for anything in the world. I have given the field of critical care all that I have with great passion and respect, and yet I long to give more. Outside of the hospital, I have dedicated my entire adult life to public and community service.

As a child, I loved going to work with my mother during my days off from school. She worked at a nursing home, and I was amazed by all of the health care employees I was surrounded by every day. I watched, in admiration, as the nurses gave the elderly their medications, while the nursing assistants made sure they were comfortable and healthy, and while the doctors checked in from time to time to give routine check-ups. As soon as I turned 12 and was old enough to start volunteering at this nursing home, I signed up to do so with excitement pouring out of me. To this very day, I am still active in volunteering at the same nursing home that prompted me to pursue a career in medicine in the first place.

I feel like this experience helped make me the nurse that I am today- one who is adaptable to less than ideal circumstances, able to deal with challenging family dynamics, and capable of working with a team to achieve great patient outcomes.

I work as a nurse on a coronary care unit and have been here for a year and a half. I have had the opportunity to witness various life changing moments. I have helped patients and their family through the worst times of their lives and this brings me personal satisfaction knowing I am able to create an impact in their lives. I end each day grateful that I have the opportunity to care for these patients.

Being a young intern in a hospital setting was extremely intimidating at first, but I vividly remember the excitement I felt every day I walked into the hospital. The more I experienced, the more certain I became that nursing was the perfect career for

Although, I’ve been in healthcare for over 20 years, working as a medical assistant, I believe my journey truly began with nursing school. It is one thing to do a job that you have been shown to do, but it becomes different as I now understand why these processes are done as well as the physiological implications. The journey to get to this point had felt like a lifelong one with many disappointments and struggles along the way. However because of the knowledge I now have, I wouldn’t change a thing as I consider it extremely valuable.

My volunteering and clinical experiences up to that point allowed me to appreciate and understand why I felt back at home in this hospital. I realized I had actually fallen in love with the pediatric