From an early age, I noticed I had a passion for helping others. I knew that I wanted to help people, and I felt the best way was to become a nurse. Nurses were the ones that I was always able to relate to when I would visit the doctor's office or go to the emergency room as a kid. I feel that the desire to take care of others and to always pursue excellence in everything I do stems from a deep-rooted childhood event that took place when I was three years old. This event is the loss of my father. It is no secret how important the role of a father plays in a child's life. We look to our father to better understand how we should approach life and one day reach the goals and aspirations that we develop throughout the years. Having to endure losing your father is no …show more content…
I will never see this circumstance as a means to pity, but more so a page in my life that drives an unfathomable commitment to achieving my dreams as my father would want. With UAB’s excellence in the field of Nursing, I hope to one day look back and call myself a UAB School of Nursing graduate. For these reasons, this is why I chose to apply to the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing. From the moment I decided CRNA school was my goal in life, I have worked relentlessly to get there. Every decision I have made since my second semester of nursing school has been with the sole intention of getting myself one step closer to CRNA school. Throughout nursing school I worked on the weekends, seeing that was the only time I was able to allot to work. I worked at a local hospital in the area and once I discovered that critical care was what I needed to do to set myself up for Anesthesia school, I was asked to transfer to the ICU as a tech to be able to get early experience and exposure in the unit. At the end of my nursing school career, I knew that the cardiovascular intensive care unit was where I wanted to be to gain my experience and