My Volunteering Personal Statement

Volunteering has been one of the fun things that one could ever ask for. I volunteered at church to be a Sunday school teacher and it has been a blessing. To me being a Sunday school teacher to children is more of like being a nurse taking care of kids to make them feel comfortable. Since I would like to be a Pediatric Nurse, this becomes a form of learning and helps me to know and interact well with children. In my psychology class, I learned a pediatric nurse who studied psychology may have a better idea of how to ease the fears and confusions of young patients and can to treat them better. Since I am dealing with children, all these I have learned helps me in my volunteering experience.

Furthermore, since my mom is a nurse midwife we

sometimes helped her with some community service. In Africa, where I grew up there are so many things people are naïve or ignorant of and it is not because they intentionally do that. So sometimes I volunteer at my mom’s workplace and we go round educating people on so many things. For example, we educate people on the need of proper diet, hand washing, visiting the hospital regularly and so many other important things. As an aspiring nurse, I need to be able to educate people about the need for good and proper health care. Other times apart from educating people we also go around to the rural areas and offer free healthcare since not everyone can afford going to the hospital. It has always been a privilege to do that and see the wonderful smiles on people’s face.
Again, one thing I love to do is babysitting.

I have been babysitting for a very long time and it is really fun. I used to babysit my cousins and little siblings and made sure they were always fine. I have been a babysitter to so many kids and up to now I still babysit kids on weekends when I have nothing to do. Most of my childhood experience have been with children that is why most of the things I do involves them. I think in the nursing field one has to have passion for what they do and that is the same passion and commitment I have for anything I do or get involved in.

Finally, I am work study student working as a computer lab assistant. I know it has nothing to do with nursing but I feel I demonstrate my nursing skills always. Because I feel the students who come around are my patients and at the end I have to make sure that they leave the computer lab feeling satisfied and happy. I have been involved in volunteering work such as educating students during the open house events organized in school.

In addition, I know I have not done most volunteering work at the hospital and I plan to that very soon. This is because I will gain more experience in the nursing field through all these volunteering and community

services.