A Personal Statement Of Purpose To Become A Nurse

Abstract
Where do I see myself in five years? Truthfully, I see myself with my intended degree in nursing and on the road to finding a job in the medical field. Only a few applicants get accepted into the nursing program alone making it a particularly competitive program. So the moment I can quire my BSN I will be able to consider myself successful. To start working in this field it will take roughly four years to earn the degree to be able to go out and perform nursing duties. I came to the decision that I wanted to become a nurse by looking into the current high demand and knowing that the need for them will continue to increase in the future. Nurses do a variety of things to improve a patient’s health and interact with them on many levels

That has been the question all along since I started pre-school. I had a different answer each time, there’s no surprise about that. The most bizarre answer that I remember was, “I want to be an astronaut.” That has clearly changed as I have matured and grown up in this frigid world and reality sets in. The chances of actually becoming an astronaut became slimmer and slimmer. By the time I was in middle school, a counselor came into my study hall class and walked up to each and every student in my third period class and jotted down our responses to what we wanted to become when we grew up. I answered her without thinking and clearly stated to her that I wanted to become a pediatrician. Since then I chose to be placed in classes that involved a lot of health related courses throughout my high school career, such as my Health Science

Getting into the nursing program is a challenge, as only a few applicants get accepted. This information stimulated me to think about how bad I truly want it, and turns out I want it really bad. I took a test online, and the results were not what I expected. I was rather baffled by the results because none of them said anything about nursing rather they concentrated on early childhood education. This does make sense to me in a way because I love children and I would go the extra mile to teach them a thing or two. The results I got did not however discourage me from what I want to do. My desire to go into the nursing field comes from the urge to help others. The core requirements I have for myself are as follows; doing what’s best for the patient, preserve life no matter what, and have integrity. Some of my knowledge about nursing came from shadowing nurses at Jasper County Hospital located in Rensselaer, Indiana. I would mostly shadow nurses in oncology, intensive cardiac care unit, and medical surgical unit. Their jobs seemed challenging and from what I saw, they never had a dull moment. This led me to take CPR and first aid courses in high school that gave me a background on what health care professionals do on a much lower