Personal Statement: A Career As A Registered Nurse

My ambition is to graduate St. Francis College as a Registered Nurse with a Bachelor’s degree in the upcoming years. Although majoring in nursing will not be easy, I feel I am prepared for the challenge. At this time in my life I cannot see myself majoring in anything else. As a young girl, with a mother working in the medical field, I was always fascinated going to work with her. Working in a doctor’s office these past two and a half years myself has given me much experience with patients and has made it more to clear to me that this is what I want to pursue as a career. I wish to be a nurse because I seem to get a feeling of warmth and internal satisfaction when helping those in need. I have begun to learn that medicine is not the only cure for people’s ailments. It is the care they receive by those around them whether it is in a hospital, nursing home, or even their own home. This is where I believe that I can make a great difference in people 's lives by helping them recover.

A Registered Nurse is a person who enjoys helping other people. They practically have the responsibility for many peoples lives. What’s interesting about a Registered Nurse is that they get to learn about all the parts of the human body. A Registered Nurse works in the medical field and needs to be ready with anything that comes their way. There could be a sudden death, some kind of medical issue that pops up, and even a patient just falls over and hurt themselves. As a Registered Nurse they need to be able to deal with blood, snot, vomit etc. The main thing a Registered Nurse has to be good at is being able, and wanting to help people in need.

There are many things I hope to accomplish in my lifetime, but the most important is having a positive impact on others. I grew up knowing I wanted to make a difference and eventually found my calling through nursing. Nursing has taught me to be selfless and has challenged me in more ways than I could have ever imagined. Although the two and a half years of working as a bedside nurse has fulfilled my expectations, I feel am now ready to begin pursuing my goal of becoming a nurse anesthetist. I was first introduced to this area of nursing after having surgery to repair my torn ACL.

For as long as I can remember, or since the first time I met a nurse, I knew that was what I wanted to do. I have always held a great deal of respect for those who care for others in their time of need, and sacrifice their own emotional health to be strong for someone else, when they could not be strong for themselves. For several years my fear of being unsuccessful held me back from pursuing this dream, until I decided to finally take the first step and become a certified nursing assistant, and enroll at Clinton Community College to begin my journey to becoming a registered nurse. In the summer of 2014 I had decided to take control of my life and pursue my dream of working in the field of healthcare.

I have always wanted to be a nurse: I do not think there is any task that is as satisfying as treating a patient physically, psychologically, emotionally and spiritually. I first pursued my LPN, and immediately I knew I had chosen the right career path. Every day, no matter how tired and weary I felt at the end of the day, I was invigorated by the sense that I had made a positive change in the lives of my patients. To build upon my capabilities to help others, I then pursued my RN. I am currently in an RN-BSN program and hope to begin a graduate program subsequently to become a family nurse practitioner.

I grew up on a farm that was half an hour from town. We never went to the emergency room. We never went to the doctor. We learned to patch ourselves up with whatever we had, so I had never even seen a nurse in action until I was sixteen and my Grandmother was in a nursing home with stage III Lymphoma. The nursing home was near where I worked and so at lunch time a couple times of week I would go and read to her. At the time, I didn’t focus on the wonderful people taking care of her, however I remember friends and family coming to see my Grandmother and they would talk very loudly to her and some times she wouldn’t even respond. Whereas, I and the nurses could sit right next to her bed and in a normal voice have a conversation with her and she never had trouble hearing us. During these discussions she would express to the nurses how wonderful they were and what a noble thing they were doing by helping take care of people in need. She always told me that the two most important professions were nurses and teachers. This experience taught me that my most important goal is to always treat people as a whole person not just a disease or condition. To take the time to listen and understand what they are need. My second goal is to learn something new everyday to make myself a successful nurse. Third, I want to continue to help and serve the community by continuing to create and implement centers of excellence in contact allergies and urticaria.

I cannot attribute my desire of becoming a nurse to following the footsteps of a family member, nor caring for a sick family member as I was growing up. I am a first generation high school student, furthermore, a college graduate. I became a mother at the very young age of sixteen. Being so young and growing up without the care of my parents, it was always said I, too, would end up in a rough situation and not be able to care for my child being so young myself. I continued out my days and nights being a high school teen mom. I graduated from high school in three years by attending night school while I was pregnant; allowing me to finish school sooner and obtain a better job that would allow me to take care of my son.

As a young Puerto Rican, I always wanted to be a nurse or a doctor. This is because I have always had a caring heart and I enjoyed to take care of everyone. My educational goal is to get a Doctorate degree in Nursing. Furthermore, to reach that goal I have to start working on my Associate Degree. Therefore, my first educational goal is to begin and complete my associate degree. My career Goal after graduation is working as an RN in the Sarah Todd Nursing Home; the nursing home which I currently work at as a CNA. Being a CNA allows me to reach out and help people. Continuing my education would increase the amount of care that I can provide.

All my life I have wanted to make a difference in the world, to make my mark. I may not be able to do this on a worldly scale, but I can start by helping one person at a time. My plan for the future is not an easy one, but it is worth it. I intend on becoming a Registered Nurse to begin, then later going further and becoming a Practitioner Nurse. Hopefully with my plans, I can get there fairly quickly. I will be attending Western Oklahoma State College, starting off with my basics, which usually take about two years. Then go into the Nursing program that Western proffers, putting my Associates degree under my belt. I would like to start working as fast as I can in order to get all the debt I will have paid off so I can attend a Southwestern

I am a nursing student. I have a great passion for caring for others. My short term goals are to graduate Riverland Community College with my Associate's Degree in Nursing this December. I plan to work very hard and prepare to take my nursing licensure exam at the beginning of next year to become licensed as a registered nurse. I will then transfer to Metropolitan State University to complete my Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.

Becoming a licensed registered nurse is bigger than a passion for me, it is my dream. My passion developed as a heath science student in high school during clinical rotations. The nursing staff during clinical rotations was truly inspirational and sparked my desire. My heart has always been in the field of helping people and serving holistically. I will fully commit to this opportunity to serve and commit to this sacred vocation. Nurses are everyday heroes that serve as advocates for the patients and families.

Caring for others has always been a passion of mine, and becoming a nurse has always been my dream. While my dream has turned reality, I can say that nursing has blessed me with the opportunity to not only be a servant to those in my community, but it has also allowed me to be of some comfort to patients and their loved ones during their darkest and most vulnerable moments. Nursing offers a variety of opportunities, where the only restrictions are the ones we set for ourselves. As for myself, all things are possible, for if I want it, I strongly believe it’s already mine. The depths that I will go to reach the latitude of success that I so desire is boundless.

It’s “Career Day” at my school and all of my fellow classmates want to hear about a job that interests me and why, so here I go. A job that interests me would be to be work in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit as a Registered Nurse. It interests me because I could always make a difference, the work environment is fast paced and always busy, and the salary is pretty good too.

While growing up, I always dreamt about helping people and making a difference. As I got older I realized that becoming a nurse would allow me to do those things, and that it is something I would want to do for the rest of my life. Although, I have been set on being a nurse most of my life, two major events happened afterwards that reassured me that I could not take on any other career but nursing. I lost two very important people in my life and because of them, I want to continue on my path to becoming a nurse, to make a difference and save the lives that I can.

People always me ask this one question, “Why do I want to become a nurse?” Well, the significant reason that made me want to be a nurse is to help patients’ health issues and to nurse them with great care. There are some patients that could barely do anything and have fallen into despair, that’s why I am willing to help these patients while they are gradually recovering. Particularly, it all started when I began volunteering at the Memorial Hermann Hospital, I wanted to get a hands-on experience on what it’s like to assist the patient needs.