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Registered Nurse Scholarship Essay

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I used to work as a registered nurse in Samoa for the past 10 years. I recently resigned from NHS in 2012 as a registered nurse and accepted an offer from SENESE Inclusive Education to work with children with special needs. This is with regard to my plan of developing and enhancing my skills as a registered nurse, taking advantage of the perspective of disabilities as other areas of health we also work with. From then on I developed an interest in becoming the first speech language therapist for Samoa in order to work with children and adults who have communication and swallowing disorders. I have noticed from my background as a nurse, our people deserve this service. I have also nursed a lot of people who have had stroke and seen children …show more content…

I also believe that my experience as a registered nurse in Samoa has supported me to know what Samoans need and what approach is relevant to the way our people live. I also have the experience of working with people from other cultures like Maori, Tonga and Tokelau. My long term goal would be training more health professionals in the area of speech and language therapy by sending them to the University of Auckland in order for this service to be extended to other Pacific Islands in the future.

I would be interested in a position for a full time speech language therapist in your organisation with conditions similar or close to the following:-
• A salary around 45,000 or more corresponding to my qualification and experience.
• A senior speech language therapist or speech language pathologist to supervise me for the period of two years for preparing me to work on my own in the following years and ensure that the speech language service are provided in a quality needed by our people. If it’s not possible, the University of Auckland in affiliation with the Speech Science Department are willing to provide support for a supervisor for me at this

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