There’s a lot we can learn from the stories of our past – if we tell them in such way that enables us to hear what they really have to say. This holds true with me and my life. To put it simply, the life I’ve lived up to this point has been nothing short of a beautiful (and bumpy) roller coaster ride! As I have grown up there have been many factors that have influenced me to take on or do certain things. These things, plus some of my individual choices, have contributed into what’s made me who I am today. And with that, I’m happy to say for this moment in time, I’m satisfied with the person I am and the path I’m taking.
Growing up as a little girl my life was ever changing. Although I don’t have many recollections of my childhood, I do remember wanting to be a bit of everything. Early on I wanted to be singer. I dreamed of being as cool and famous as Britney Spears. Not to mention, I was a tad narcissistic and thought I had the best voice. In reality I sounded like nails on a chalkboard. After some time had passed and I was no longer tone deaf, I dreamed of being a teacher. This was probably because I had started school and loved learning. I also had an obsession with stationery items and thought grading would be the greatest thing ever! For the longest time, I truly thought with every fiber of my being that someday I would grow up to major in Early Education. I wanted nothing more than to teach first grade.
Unexpectedly, this dream ended in 2007 when something within me changed; when someone I loved dearly ended up in the hands of nurses and doctors. This special someone was my grandmother after she had fallen and broken her hip. Although she would recover and get back to her life for a short while, this experience sparked so...
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...nd future nurse. I’ve come to learn that if I don’t use every resource made available to me, I’m simply letting good things fall to way side. Tutors, libraries, and success centers were made to help students like me reach their best.
Lastly, and of the most important to me, is remembering why I’m doing this. In order for me to be successful in my desired career field, I have to accept that college isn’t always going to be fun. I’ve always come to realize the road will get bumpy from time to time. Even with that being said, remembering why I put myself through this seemingly difficult journey of life makes it all worthwhile. In the end, that’s the most important thing. If you can’t look back as student and appreciate what’s gotten you to where you are then nothing was worth it. It’s with this notion I will continue through my studies and come successful as a nurse!
As young child we are all asked what we would like to be when we grow up. Usually the answer is a firefighter, a policeman, or nurse. When I was a child I changed my mind multiple times. At first I wanted to be Minnie Mouse, then a dancer. Then, about two years ago, I wanted to be a crime scene investigator. I had all my plans worked out. I was going to attend the University of Memphis and major in criminal justice. However, one day about a year ago, my mind totally changed. I decided to go in the complete opposite direction. I decided that I wanted to be a cosmetologist.
Every kid thinks they know what they want to be when they grow up. It changes over the years though. When I was around seven years old I wanted to be a pop star. This dream was based on a disney channel show called hannah montana, about a teen girl who lives a double life as a pop star. When I was around ten years old I wanted to be an actor on a sit com. Then I discovered basketball. I started playing all the time. I had “hoop dreams” as one would say. I wanted to be a WNBA player. That's what I said when anybody asked. By 9th grade reality caught up to me and I lost touch of that dream. Being a WNBA player would be almost impossible for me. So would playing basketball in college, but I still want to pursue it. I realized I was way behind in terms of basketball skills compared to other girls in the 2018 class. I adopted a love for biology and math. Those tie into what my real dream is.
Growing up as a child, I had many struggles. From being raised by an aunt whom I did not always get along with, to not knowing my parents, and hating school, it is easy to say that my childhood was not the best. However, I always knew that I wanted to help people; to make a difference in people's lives. That led me to the decision to become a Registered Nurse, otherwise known as an RN. The procedures completed by Registered Nurses can be lifesaving. Before entering the nursing field, one should examine the salary and benefits of, educational requirements, the job description, as well as character requirements.
When I began this journey I knew that Nursing was all I wanted to do and in order to succeed and do well in nursing school, it was going to require a ton of devotion and sacrifice. Nursing school did not come without its challenges, not only did we have to deal with going to class, clinicals, studying for exams, but we also had to add in the factors of jobs, family, marriages, children, sickness and our daily life. But our instructors encouraged us and pushed us to keep going, and for that we are grateful because we all made a decision to stick with it, and here we are today. It seems unimaginable that just a year ago this journey was just beginning, but here we are today a year later,
My courses and experience has empowered, and has reinforced my determination to pursue a career as a nurse. I am eager and excited about starting nursing school, and having my dream which started as a young girl to come full circle. I am convinced I am a good candidate because I have the innate drive to complete the program. I am willing to learn and use those skills and knowledge acquired to provide something meaningful to the society and humanity. I have the personal determination to face the challenges and rigors of nursing school. With hard work, perseverance, and determination I believe I have the essential character to be successful as a nursing student and an excellent quality nurse in the near future. A degree in nursing paves ways for other degrees to emerge especially for those interested in furthering their education in health care. I am committed to continue to pursed advanced degree in nursing ultimately becoming a nurse practitioner. . In the next five to ten years from now, I want to write articles and books about nursing and healthcare related. Therefore, I believe that if I improve myself further positively, I will grow from strength to strength and one day my paper will be read in one of the prestigious newsletters, journals, and textbooks. I know the sky is my starting
Throughout my life I have overcome many obstacles. I have worked and gone to school since I was 17, I paid for my housing, and I paid my necessities. In the past when I was unsure what I wanted to do with my life I struggled in school. I was a “B” and “C” student. I had a hard time finding something that really interested me. Fortunately, when I started working in healthcare I knew this was a career field I wanted to pursue. As my goals went up and solidified, so did my grades. I am proud to say I am a solid “A” and “B” student. And as I worked my way through the grapevine of jobs and aspirations I found that nursing was what my heart set upon.
My extracurricular and academic activities have helped mold me into a person with character and good qualities. These qualities--respect, humility, kindness, ambition, appreciation for diversity and collaboration, and courage--have not come without valuable failures and lessons. I can continue to develop these qualities and build upon these lessons as I go forward with my university goals and the desire I have to enter the healthcare profession as a nurse. I am able to look beyond the exciting, glamorous parts of both and see that there will be lots of hard work and difficulty. I am ready to face those challenges and do my best and give my all.
I am about to graduate from the University of Texas at Arlington obtaining the BSN degree, this event marks a milestone in my personal and professional life. The RN to BSN program has allowed me to push my abilities to the limits and I have probe to myself that I can achieve anything that I put my mind and efforts to. For example, I was able to work full time, studying, being a mother and wife, all at the same time. I have enhance my knowledge and skills, I improved myself; I have become a professional nurse and a better human being. Now I firmly believe that I can accomplish my goal and become a Family Nurse Practitioner; I know that I can succeed achieving my personal and professional goals. On the class Transition to Professional Nursing, we discussed about different theorist, I
As previously mentioned, becoming a nurse has always been a goal of mine. Throughout high school, I got the opportunity to narrow down exactly what I wanted to do in the medical field by taking nursing classes and participating in clinical rotations. I received my CNA license at the end of the course and through learning many beneficial life skills and nursing techniques, I realized during that time I wanted to go beyond CNA work, and that the nursing field was where God was leading me. Everyone defines success differently. To some people, success could be the simplest task being completed, or a major life goal being achieved. To me however, success is when I reach the goal I or others have set before me. Anything that involves my future career or potential in the medical field drives me to meet nothing but
I was never going to be a teacher. My parents would tell you otherwise. As a child, I would spend my time playing school. I would write on my chalk board, create worksheets and homework assignments and take attendance. I would make my bedroom a replica of my safe haven. I guess I was destined to find my way into a classroom. I had also always loved to write, but I wanted to find a way to make money easily in the field so I thought journalism was the way to go. After the first semester of hardcore journalism classes, I concluded that the fast pace stressed me out too much. I worked with a career counselor to narrow down alternate fields of interest and all signs pointed to education. I took a generic introduction to education course and knew immediately that I had really come home in all senses of the
Throughout my education, I proved that I am a hard working student that will never give up. My ambition of becoming a nurse, pushed me even harder to reach my goal. With all my hard work I have acquired a passion for learning. Educating myself has enhanced my desire of becoming a nurse. From learning all the human anatomy to learning the biology of life, this showed me that my hard working skills have prepared me for the nursing practice and for the nursing
In conclusion, life is filled with lessons. Some of them are learned through reading books, traveling, and watching old Disney films. In contrast, some are learned through mistakes, and hard times. As life goes on we will continue to grow up, find new interests, and meet new people. Along the way we will find things that we enjoy doing, and things we can’t stand. All of these things teach us lessons that make us the human beings we are today. I would never take back any of the things that I have done in the past because those are the building blocks that constructed me into the person I am today. I hope I will look back fifty years later and say, “Yea. It was a good life.”
Most children seem to have ideas of what they would like to be when they grow up. The average person walking into any kindergarten class today would find future teachers, lawyers, doctors, nurses, astronauts, firefighters, and ballerinas; the list is endless. I never had the chance to even dream about what I wanted to be when I grew up and was given little chance to develop my own tastes and ideas towards this goal. I spent my childhood trying to be the good example to my younger brother and sister that my father demanded in his letters. All the while I was hoping and praying that my mother and father would get back together. The only thing I knew was being a mom and that is what I thought I wanted to be.
My life is a mixture of moments, some happy moments and others not so much, but regardless, these moments have made me the person that I am today and I don’t regret anything that had happen. I consider myself a strong, and a very determined person, I have dreams to fill the world and I am willing to do the necessary efforts to attain those dreams. My motivations I inherit from my family, more specifically my father that I love so much; I have always
It was a cold winter’s night when I heard a loud knock on my door. My father who was an accountant was still awake working on some left over work from the previous day. I was able to sneak down the long dark hall way and peek around the corner and down the stairs just in time to see him answer the door. I was unable to make out the dark shadow that stood in the door way for the porch light was about to die flickering on and off like it was ill. I listened closely as my father talked to this mysterious person both had hushed voices. Where they just being polite to the people still asleep in the house or was there something more to what I had originally thought was going on. All of a sudden my father stepped back and let the strange figure in. He wore a long trench coat and a wide brimmed hat that covered his face; in his left hand he carried a black brief case. Curious I crept down the stairs trying ever so hard to not step on a wrong part of the stairs that would make a creek from the winter cold and give me away. I walked ever so gently towards my father’s office where I hid behind a large potted plant that would shield me if either of the men walked out to get something. My father had left the door cracked open just enough that I was able to see the back of the man’s neck. He had a strange figure or emblem on the back of his neck I couldn’t quite make out what it was. It was strange almost demented as I stared at it I had realized I had seen it somewhere before, But where? As I sat there searching my mind for the answer I realized it was the 21st century and I could easily take a picture of it with my phone and search the web. as I started to dig about in my pockets I realized I must have left it up stairs not wanting to get cau...