From Caring for a Father Who Had a Stroke to Mastering Nursing - Personal Statement Example

I remember that the nurses would stop by my father's room just to exchange stories with me and answer the questions I had about their profession. No question I asked was ever too simple nor unimportant to them. They knew I was asking a lot of questions because of one thing alone, the fact that I too wanted to help my father get better.

As luck would have it, I reached my senior year in high school without really having chosen a major with only half a year before I was slated to graduate. Thanks to my high school career adviser, I remembered the experience I had with the nurses who cared for my father. My career counselor told me that becoming a nurse was an admirable decision. She also reminded me that I had the traits of a natural nurse. After all, I was an active member of the Red Cross club at school and I volunteered my free time helping care and entertain the sick at the local hospital. The choice of a nursing career was, according to her, an obvious choice.

However willing and excited I was to become a nurse, I was held back by one reality that I could not overcome. My parents were not in a financial situation that would allow them to help me complete the highly expensive nursing education that my career choice required. I was devastated when I realized that my dream of becoming a nurse would have to remain a dream for the rest of my life. I was instead forced to attend college and enroll in a course that would get me immediately employed after graduation without requiring too much training.

That was how I came to spend the past 3 years of my life working for a health care agency. Working there allowed me to still be surrounded by medical staffers like nurses and therapists and reminded me that even though I did not have a nursing degree, I still managed to be helpful to patients in need of healthcare.

My co-workers who are all health care professionals have always been amazed by my incomparable passion when it comes to caring for people. It was they who suggested that I aim to achieve my dream of becoming a nurse by joining an ABSN program. Since I have already spent the past 4 years working as a nursing assistant, and I have a previous college degree, I already qualify for the accelerated nursing program based upon the fact that all my work-related and college studies already qualify me as having completed the prerequisite courses. I am actually looking forward to completing the ABSN program that will finally allow me to pursue the career that I have long wanted to work in. I know that the work that I shall be doing will be rewarding and fulfilling for me both financially, due to our country's lack of nurses, and fulfilling because I will be doing something that I love to do.