Personal Essay On Becoming A Pediatric Nurse

Personal Essay “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others”- Albert Schweitzer. Helping others has always been a passion for me, I love the feeling of seeing people happy after you do something for them. For my future career I would love to continue helping people by becoming a pediatric nurse. Being in the medical field has always been a dream job for me. I love working and being around children. I have several experiences with children, I worked at a fitness studio as a child care taker for 3 months, at the high school my second period class was at a preschool and I got to help teach the children, and I watched two kids a few days week for a couple months. This year I am taking a CTE class at the high school where I am able to go to Mark Twain hospital and help out in the ER and learn more about what a nurse does. After I graduate I plan to move to Alabama and go to a community college. After that I then want to transfer to a four year school, and major in nursing and pursue my career of becoming a pedatric nurse. I have a 3.761 GPA and am ranked 43 in my class, and I’m involded in the College Scholarship Federation club.

Throughout my school years I have been fortunate enough to see how sharing what i’ve learned in my life makes a positive influence in their lives. In 2015 when the Butte Fire happened I went to the Good Samartian Church and helped put together food baskets and sorted and delived clothes to people in need. I volunteered at my church food pantry on Saturdays on numerous occuations. I did girl scouts for 6 years where I went into neighborhoods and talked to them about donating canned foods to the food