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After 10 years working as a registered nurse in many aspects of healthcare, felt an overwhelming desire to advance my career and myself to expand my role in caring for others. Becoming a nurse practitioner has always been a goal of mine. During my time working as a nursing manager, I became acutely aware of the need of skilled and talented providers that desire to provide passionate care to all individuals. I became especially concerned with the needs those with limited access to healthcare services. I knew my desire to care for individuals in a more autonomous role and I set out to develop the skills needed to meet the need I witnessed.
As an individual with a passion of stepping into the lives of others during testing times towards making life easier, I am determined to develop a fulfilling career as a nurse practitioner. Having graduated in BSN from Barry University in 2014, currently I am serving the emergency department at SMH as a registered nurse. My fervor of transforming into an impeccable nursing professional through sharpening my knowledge and skills has inspired me to continue my education. At present, I am enrolled for the Master of Science in Nursing program at the Nursing School of Barry University and getting specialized in Nurse Practitioner Acute Care. I look forward to graduating in 2020.
My love of the healthcare world began at very early age. I was always so fascinated by how the human body worked and the healthcare workers who would fix it when it broke. when I was about 5 years old and saw a toy doctors kit and knew I had to have it. Hours spent honing my doctoring skills with my favorite doll as my star patient. Even after over a decade in the medical field that love and curiosity for medicine never wavered.
I am very interested in obtaining a Registered Nurse position as new graduate nurse with Baptist Health. I have developed the skills and education to work as a nurse, which includes an Associate’s degree in nursing. My studies included healthcare, science, and clinical work that allowed me to obtain hands-on experience working in the healthcare field. I will soon take the NCLEX exam to earn my license to begin my practice as a Registered Nurse.
I am working as a registered Nurse. I am self motivated and eager to learn more. I am reliable and an ethical healthcare provider with proven ability to collaborate alongside multidisciplinary teams. I have demonstrated my ability to prioritize any task,manage time effectively in my work life and I am well aware of my workload, time and my commitment in tertiary study.
A career as a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner is a natural extension of my personal, educational, and research experiences. Although my path to nursing has not been a straight line, every experience that put me on this path has shaped my passion and dedication to psychiatric nursing. After losing loved ones to suicide at a young age, I made a promise to myself and to them that I would dedicate my life to helping individuals struggling with mental illness. This promise led me to study Psychology at UC Berkeley, where I fell in love with clinical research investigating the efficacy of treatments for mental illness.
The strong Lutheran foundation at Valparaiso University that prepares students to lead and serve in the community. In addition to the church, and society offers me the opportunity to pursue a Doctorate of Nursing Practice degree. The university's foundation and family-centered focus make it a great place for work-study. Although no one ever suggested that my journey to become a Registered Nurse would turn out to be a faith-based journey, I transitioned from Medical Assistant to Registered Nurse in 2017. I enrolled in an LPN program with only 12 weeks until graduation, but the school closed with no further information.
As I embark on my journey to become a registered nurse at the master's level, I anticipate significant changes in my role and responsibilities. As a registered nurse, I will transition from a student nurse to a fully licensed healthcare professional. This transition entails a shift from primarily observing and assisting in patient care to taking on a more independent and autonomous role in providing comprehensive care to individuals, families, and communities. The standards for my new role as a registered nurse are established by professional nursing organizations, regulatory bodies, and healthcare institutions.
My goal while attending RCC is to start taking all of the necessary classes and programs to become a very successful registered nurse that I know I can be. I always wanted to take part in a career that not only is active, but has a big, positive impact on the community. That career I was looking for ended up being healthcare. I found this out while working at Providence Medford Medical Center as a Patient Care Technician and it makes me want to strive to do more. I would be a good addition to the nursing workforce because I am resourceful, compassionate, adaptable and detail oriented.
I am currently a nurse and want to further my career and education. After being referred by a previous graduate and doing research on Centra, the college, and it's affiliates, I decided this program would be amongst my top three schools academically based, locality, and its RN to BSN program. Also with Virginia Baptist and Lynchburg General's reputation I feel it would really prepare me to get the extra knowledge, skills, and practice I need to become a successful registered nurse. I am very determined, compassionate, and love what I do; being able to make a difference in someone else's life is something I really take pride in.
Exploring my interest in the critical care one step further, I ventured into a new professional journey in the field of the cardiac surgery. I joined the team of healthcare professionals at the newly created Heart and Vascular Intensive Care Unit in January 2015. It was the best decision in my nursing career up to date. I gained experience of taking care of the most critical high-risk patients undergoing and recovering from the heart surgery, managing various modalities of the life-support equipment, responding to life-threatening emergencies while being caring, compassionate, and sensitive to the specific needs of the patients and their families. Being a part of dynamic HVICU team fostered my professional growth, helped cultivate leadership skills and provided an incredible opportunity to share my passion for critical care with colleagues, serving as a preceptor and mentor to other nurses.
Personal Statement for Nursing School “When a person decides to become a Nurse. They make the most important decision of their lives. They choose to dedicate themselves to the care of others” Growing up in Nigeria; I had my first introduction to the field of medicine at the age of 6. At the time, my grand father was a holistic doctor at my local community. Whenever my grandfather went to work, he would take me with him and I remembered being very fascinated by how people would come in to get treatments for different kinds of diseases.
Since my last application, I have earned Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) degree from Boston. The program was an excellent resource to gain insight into the US healthcare system. Learning from highly intellectual professors, I am now fully aware of the administrative field in healthcare, be it the role of various stakeholders such as physicians, insurance companies or patients, to the legal and financial aspects. Furthermore, I applied the skills learned to my internship and current job at a health center. Working in the healthcare industry also led me to various resources that are crucial to integrate oral health care with primary care.
My zeal to become a nurse especially a nurse for the elderly was established after I completed my first work placement in a residential home. Though the college I attended required students to do the placement in three different health and social care setting. I was pleased with my placement coordinator's idea to allow me to do my work placement twice in the residential home. I was much grateful to have had the opportunity to serve and have much experience in the care setting. During my time at the residential home, I enjoyed caring, talking, supporting and creating a relationship with residents suffering from all sorts of dementia.
In today’s society, education is undervalued. Most students would rather stay isolated in their homes—staring at their television sets—than go out for eight hours and learn. If all students lose sight of the importance of education, our world will never progress. Public education is being taken for granted every minute of the day, but students seem to lose sight of the fact that thousands of people cannot receive an education. Those who can learn are fortunate and prosperous.