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Registered Nurse Scholarship Essay

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I work third shift at an assisted living facility on the weekends, second shift during the week, and by doing that I have learned so much. I want to be a registered nurse, and while working at a CBRF, a community based residential facility, I have learned many skills that I can use in everyday life and in my future profession. By working as a CNA I have learned first aid, time management, and empathy. I have been working at St. Monica’s Senior Living since two thousand twelve. I started in the kitchen as a kitchen aide. My job duties were to serve the food, clean the tables, set the tables, take out the garbage, and to clean dishes. I met a lot of friends working in the kitchen, a few that I even still talk to today. In the summer …show more content…

Most of the time it is something not urgent like a skin tear, a small cut, or a nose bleed. Every now and again, though, I have to do some serious first aid. Once I was walking down the hall at work and watched a woman trip and do a whole flip over her walker. She then hit her head on a door jam and busted her eyebrow open. After stopping the bleeding with towels and other supplies, we sent her to the hospital where she got six stiches. With the knowledge I have from being a veteran aide, I was able to get this woman safe. First aid is not just about patching up wounds, you also have to assess the situation and your patient. At the CBRF where I work, we once had a woman fall out of bed and she hit her head on her nightstand. She called for us to come down to her room and when we got there she was bleeding from her head. After we had that under control we started to assess her. She could respond in both Hungarian and English with ease so we assumed she did not have any brain injury, and she also passed all concussion testing. She went out with her daughter to prompt care and they did x-rays. She had hairline fractures on three vertebras and she had to wear a neck brace. This event taught me that no matter how good they look during assessment, there may still be something wrong with them and further investigation might be

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