Good Tailored Narrative Describing Past Education, Experience And Current Professional Personal Statement Example

The profession of nursing requires dedication, compassion, and a commitment to learning. The University of Texas’ unique dual masters program, comprising education leading to a Family Nurse Practitioner (UT School of Nursing) and a Public Health Masters (UT Public Health School) degree, will allow me to engage in the scientific inquiry that I relish, while at the same time preparing me for the challenge of helping difficult patients recover from their illnesses and injuries. I began my education in my native Romania, where I was a student in law.
While in law school, my father passed away as a result of colon cancer. Medical care in Romania is a backwards relic of the communist era. Drab hospital rooms are filled with 6-8 patient beds with little or no privacy. Wandering groups of students, residents, and the occasional professor punctuate the day with their arrivals to ask the same sets of questions. An unrelated soul opining about the underlying pathology or course of the disease frequently interrupts the physicians’ interrogatory of the patient. In order to actually be seen by somebody who may know what to do, often times the physicians needed to be bribed. My father’s sheets were likely only changed because we had the foresight to tip the nurses and nursing assistant in his ward.
Seeing the experience my father went through on his deathbed in Romania, I radically altered my life’s course. I abandoned my law studies and seventeen years ago I moved to America. I attending an online course with Excelsior College of New York and obtained my ADN degree in 2009, followed by a Bachelor’s in Nursing in 2012. After my AND degree I worked as a nurse in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit of the MD Anderson Care Center where I gained practical experience in nursing. During this time, I gave birth to my second child and shortly thereafter had another harrowing experience in healthcare delivery to my family. My daughter was very sick and eventually was diagnosed with gastroesophageal reflux disease when she was thirteen months old. As I was caring for her, she was also diagnosed with moderate autism, and I quit my job in order to care for her. In 2012 I returned to work at the Cornerstone Bellaire Hospital where I am a staff nurse in the Med-Surg unit and the ICU. In this position I am responsible for a wide range of activities such as: preparing patients for various procedures, placing feeding tubes, and caring for colostomy wounds or PICC and Central lines.
I have always been a caring person interested in helping living things, whether it was my father, my children or my five cats and two dogs. I firmly believe that if we all helped each other a little bit, that life would be better. My short-term goals are to excel in another academic challenge and increase my nursing knowledge. My long-term goals are to create and implement health care programs that can benefit a large number of people. The dual masters program at the University of Texas will uniquely position me to provide outstanding nursing care to individual patients, as well as understand and appreciate the group aspect of healthcare through the Public Health portion of the program. I strive to improve the quality of care that is delivered to the ill or incapacitated. I am ready to provide excellent patient care and contribute fully to the art of nursing.