Nursing Personal Statement Essay

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PERSONAL STATEMENT I remember she was very pretty to behold. I was always very proud to say I knew her. She was my mother but after a family tragedy I saw her wither away. She lost weight and became so frail, her skin was riddled with multiple pale spots, and her beauty is only now a memory. She had huge bulging eyes that stared at you. She dared not go out for the street kids will run to their parents and cry. She was a shadow of herself but she was my ever-loving mum. After many years of following my mum to various hospitals in Nigeria and spending thousands of dollars in the process, she was finally diagnosed with Graves' disease and Vitiligo. It was in 1996 and I was only in my first year of high school. The physician was a middle …show more content…

There were times I falter along the path but the image of that physician helping my mum urged me on. I became very fascinated with the idea of being able to find plausible explanation for various disease conditions and being able to offer various options of treatment. I wanted to give other families hope like the way that physician did for me. During my clinical rotation years, I was afforded the opportunity to experience a variety of practice settings and specialties that has prepared me for a diverse patient population. My interest was fleeting and short lived until I did the community posting where we were to shadow community physicians (the equivalent to a Family Practice physician in the United States). Through that clerkship, I have discovered a passion for helping patients with different kinds of disease states. Each day brought about a new challenge with a variety of cases from the common cold to cancer. The physicians were able to make a working diagnosis, allay the fear, reassure a worrying mother, deliver a breech pregnancy in the middle of the night with poor power supply and still come to work the next morning with a smile and eagerness to deal with a whole new set of challenges. That struck a cord in me and reminds me of the physician that treated my mum. I'm also impressed by the continuity of care that family practice affords. The relationship developed goes a long way in building trust between patients and their physician with some relationships lasting for

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