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Truman State University Application Essay

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I am from Kathmandu, Nepal. It was a milestone for me when I got accepted to study Bachelor of Science in nursing at Truman State University (TSU), Kirksville, Missouri as an international student. I learnt from my very early age about the effective time management, good listening skills and ability to recognize cultural diversity. During my senior year of nursing school, I had to take rural health class. When I started my rural health clinical rotation with home health nurse, I realized that there is a huge need of preventative medicine and primary care provider in the rural area. To know more about the prevention of diseases, health education and promotion of healthy lifestyle, I studied Masters in Public Health (MPH) program at Louisiana State University in Shreveport (LSUS) and Louisiana State University Health Shreveport (LSUHSCS). I started family nurse practitioner (FNP) program at James Madison University in order to provide me with more autonomy in caring the patient. …show more content…

Also, I have worked as an adjunct faculty for an undergraduate class in LSUS and supervised 90 volunteers for a Bike/Pedestrian study sponsored by ThinkFirst and Community Foundation of North Louisiana. These leadership experiences will help me throughout my FNP career. This is because being a FNP, we are the patient advocate, have to maintain privacy, supervise them, teach them about disease, medications and procedures by maintaining necessary communication skills and

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