Professional - Personal Statement Example

Professional ment My is Florence Akouegnon, a registered nurse on the ACE unit and I am applying for the clinical level III. I have a passion for caring for geriatric patients. As a nurse, it is my responsibility to be their advocate to fight, defend and stand for them in every aspect of their lives (Barker 23). I deserve recognition with the advancement to clinical level III, because I have proved at many levels my skills and expertise as a staff nurse on ACE unit caring for the geriatric patients.

I have a Bachelor Degree in Nursing Honors from Holly Family University and an induction to sigma theta tau International Nursing Honor Society. During my third year in nursing school, in 2007, I became a patient care associate at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center on ACE Unit. After graduating from nursing school, I was employed as a Registered Nurse in 2008 on the same unit. I worked hard to become a charge nurse, a preceptor and later attained an ACLS certification on my Unit. I am an active member of the cultural diversity committee and an active member of the ambulation program initiation on my Unit.

According to Barker (45), a nurse has to acquire knowledge through continuous learning. I took the Basic Arrhythmia Course, the Medical, Surgical nurse certification review course, and I am a board certified gerontological registered nurse. I have completed 34 credits at graduate level in my Adult Nurse Practitioner program at La sale University. In addition, I completed 250 hours clinical orientation as a NP student at three different sites: Einstein Medical Center, Park pleasant with the ACE Unit attending medical doctor and Philadelphia Prison system.

I have worked with UPHS, which values patient safety. Patient safety goals are studies by safety officers within an organization and throughout the world. I plan to suggest to the patient safety committee to make it compulsory that pharmacists evaluate a patient’s medications. Work CitedBarker, Anne. Advanced Practice Nursing: Essential Knowledge for the Profession. Massachusetts: Jones and Barlett. 2009. Print.