Becoming A Nursing Assistant Essay

Helping others has been one of the most important values that my parents have shown me throughout the years. As I grew older and wiser, I learned that caring and showing it, gave me a great sense of satisfaction. I learned that by helping someone you could make their situation or day a much more pleasant experience. For these same reasons, I wanted to become a nurse. I knew that in the health care field, nurses and caregivers are always doing something to help a patient. Therefore, when it came down to selecting my elective classes in high school, I decided to give the health care field a try. I entered the nursing assistant program that they offered and completed the 3- year course program. After completing the course and doing my clinical

At this facility, I took care of fifteen residents for almost two years and once you are around for that long you get to share holidays with them, you learn their likes and dislikes, you get to hear about their life experiences and learn from them as well and they become like family. There was a lady there in her mid- seventies, who was well known by others as one of the first Strawberry Queen’s in Plant City. She was such a lovely lady and she had many stories to tell. As I was listening to her concerns one night she ended with, “There is something special about you. You’re not like the other girls here because I can tell you actually care. You have all these other things to do, but you are here giving me your time.” What she had verbalized made me tear up, because I was only giving her not even ten minutes of my time and it meant a lot to her. This lady who had been known by many, had very little visitors. Her family were all caught up with their own life and she only had the staff to talk to. It was heartbreaking for me, because in my culture we have grown up taking care of our elderly instead of sending them elsewhere, and here I am taking care of this lady who was getting forgotten by her loved ones. Now as I am in a different position in my career, I get to hear and see things that have