The Carson Newman Summer Nursing Camp perfectly aligns with my strong suits and interests making it the ideal opportunity for me to pursue my passion in nursing. At an early age, I fell in love with serving those in need. As my life progressed, I came to discover that I wished to help others through a career of nursing. Needless to say, I find this summer camp incredibly valuable to my future and will fully and joyfully commit to all that it has to offer. Within the early stages of my life, I discovered the joy of serving those in pain by walking with my younger brother through his childhood illness. Six years ago, my brother Caden was diagnosed with alopecia arietta, an autoimmune disorder which, in my brother’s case, resulted in extreme hair loss and a tragically weak immune system. My family and I had to immediately adapt to his urgent medical needs. Because of the weakening of Caden’s immune …show more content…
His body failed to protect him from illness and infection. This resulted in my family and I learning how to protect for him. My family and I were constantly sanitizing our house and supplying Caden with the best medications and treatments. While seeing my little brother suffer through his illness was excruciating, it allowed me to realize my love for serving those in need, particularly those in medical need. Not only did I learn the seriousness of addressing my brother’s medical needs but I learned the importance of caring for him emotionally. My brother’s condition caused him to lose all of his hair and appear incredibly frail. Seeing how he was a nine-year-old boy and still in school, he was constantly faced with bullying and criticism for his baldness. It was essential for me to encompass my little brother in
Nursing Corps scholarship program mission is to provide qualified and dedicated nurses to provide amazing care to patients in underserved communities. It will be an honor for me to serve and provide quality care to patients when I graduate from nursing school and pass the board exam.
Although the notion of being a camp nurse may summon up ideas of tranquil settings and a few weeks away from a "real" career, the truth is that the multidimensional role of the camp nurse is an exhilarating and thought-provoking to even the most knowledgeable nurse. The nurse must be equipped to deliver routine and emergency care to youngsters and the staff, screen children with chronic illnesses, train campers and staff on precautionary health matters, and work as a team with camp managers to implement rules that decrease the threat of harm or sickness. The camp nurse must have flexibility, critical thinking and problem solving expertise, as well as with a bit of humor and creativeness. The camp nurse must endorse and safeguard the health of the whole camp community. Children and staff at camps accredited by the American Camp Association are required to submit a current health history and physical exam.
I love a good challenge. After looking at your curriculum, I could see that I could learn a lot from this camp—while getting a substantial dose of eustress that I don’t get from other places in my life. I know this camp will help me improve my skills in programming and set up many paths in life for me.
I am from a small town where everyone knows everyone and you always lend a helping hand. In my work environment, I will hold to my hometown values. I will always help when I am needed. I will have a smile when I walk into a patient’s room and I will try to make the patient and their family feel as comfortable as possible. I will be there to help my patients, but I will remain professional. I understand that I may have a patient that I know outside of work, but I will not let this change the way that I treat them. I will still place them on the same level as the other patients.
One aspect of life that most individuals take for granted is physical health. Most people assume that an individual cannot lose physical health or if somebody becomes sick the health care system will be able to recover one’s health with the new medical advances that are always happening around the world. However, this is not always the case some individuals have to face a chronic loss of health and deal with the implications of this on their life. The loss of health I will be talking about today is not a direct loss of personal health, but a loss of health that my father experiences and how different components of this loss affected my family and I’s life.
As I was taking care of a crying distressed baby in the NICU during my third year of my medical school, I wanted to do everything possible in my power to help that little soul. He was diagnosed with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. As the time passed, helping just the baby for his present condition did not seem enough to me. A week later,I followed up on the mom who had been struggling with heroin addiction for years. She broke down in tears and told me how guilty, she feels about the health of her baby. As we talked more, she told me how she tried her best to give everything up for her child’s sake. She had a troubled childhood and wanted to do as much as she could to give her baby a good and healthy life. While I was consoling her, I counseled her and gave her all the resources available in the hospital and the community to help her make a full recovery. Over the coming months as I followed up on her recovery, I witnessed the strength of human determination. For me, it was starting, to think of health in terms beyond physical illnesses. I became fascinated with
Ever since I was a young girl, Nursing has always been an area for which I have had a passion. As far back as I can remember, whenever someone asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, my response was to be a children’s nurse and to help others. Child nursing is a very challenging and demanding course, however the rewards would make it all worth it, and I am ready to embark on this career path. I have observed the devotion and humanity of child nurses who go further than just treating young patients; they genuinely wanted to make them happy and as comfortable as possible in difficult times. I found this very inspiring, and it is the main reason why I am immensely inspired to train in this field in order to be in a position to make a lasting difference in the lives of young people who depend on us.
Crochet Therapy helps women experiencing hair loss. But there are so many women that either do now know about Crochet Therapy, or that are unable to attend meetings. Crochet Therapy encourages members to be an example. To take their gained confidence and pride and help others. The beanies and hats crocheted at meeting are collected and then distributed out to hospitals where patients are unable to leave. Members establish relationships with these patients through visits and phone calls, and make custom orders for these women. Not only does outreaching to others help more people, but it allows the individual who is reaching out to gain peace within themselves. Being the beacon of light to help another, who is as scared and broken as you once were, is healing to both parties. When you lift others up, you soar.
Howley Prospectus The final prospectus before deciding on a practicum will help to formulate a plan to guide me in choosing an experience that will best suit my goals. I hope to be networking and becoming more involved in a role I would like to explore more thoroughly. I will look back over my reflective journal to determine my learning needs and what type of placement will best help me meet these. I will work with a preceptor to gain experience and meet the goals I set for myself within the course requirements. Goal for obtaining an MSN degree Earning my Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree was always more of a personal goal for me than a professional one.
Despite all the patients and diseases that we treated on our journey, one specific patient made me understand that it was my purpose to pursue a career that aims to help and educate the unprivileged. Such patient was 13 years old at the time, she came to us with her mom, who explained that the patient has been itched in her genitals for several months. After examining her the Doctor realized that the girl had genital warts, I couldn’t believe this girl who was way younger than me had these evident warts for months and did not get any treatment or even realized. When the doctor asked her mom if her daughter’s behavior had changed recently, she replied that indeed her daughter was more shy and reserved towards her; however, she explained that she couldn’t take her to the doctor because of the lack of money and
I will be going into college as an open major because that is how I applied in order to keep my options open. However, I am heavily leaning towards pediatric nursing. I have always loved working with children and from a young age I set out to help people however I was able. I planned to help people somehow as a career and pediatric nursing would be the perfect way to do that. Not only could I work with children who are impressionable and will soon be our future, but I would be able to make a real difference by helping them when they are feeling sick and at their worst. Even when they are being difficult either because they are sick and hurting or they are in a bad mood, I will be kind to them and help them to the best of my ability, trying to put a smile on
30 ratty T-shirts, 22 pairs of shorts, 4 bottles of bug spray, 2 tubes of deodorant, a set of old sheets, one gigantic duffle bag and I was ready, or so I thought. On June 4 2016, I loaded my dad’s pickup truck and headed east towards Asheville, North Carolina to spend the next 8 weeks working at a summer camp. 8 weeks of no Wi-Fi, no parents, no air-conditioning, no TV, no clean shower, sounds campy right? When I first applied for the opportunity to be a counselor, I never would have guessed how a simple summer job would change my life forever. I was chosen to be the leader for these campers; to teach, laugh, cry, sing, roast marshmallows, inspire, spontaneously dance, stay up for deep late night talks and most importantly love on these kids.
So, I moved here 2 yrs ago from the Philippines where I got my bachelors. I worked as a Volunteer nurse there in the Phils before I came here in the US. I am a goal oriented and compassionate person. When I came here in the US, I started working in an assisted living facility as a resident associate where I helped elderly patients with their ADLs and provided nursing care. I worked there for a year and a half until I got my RN license. Right now I am a Pediatric Home Health nurse, I provide nursing care for a baby with central Line and G-tube. With my 2 years experience in the medical field it helped me build confidence as a health care professional and taught me the importance of pt care. I am very determined and always willing to learn.
After doing my work experience at the Craigton Road Day Care Centre for elderly people, where I enjoyed talking with and caring for vulnerable, confused and apprehensive people, I felt that working with the patients and staff really did improve my communication, teamwork and interpersonal skills. Working and listening to the patients and their struggles made me realise that a health care profession was the correct career path for me. As a nurse, I need to be able to work as part of a team and deal with emotionally charged situations, have patience, understanding and a caring attitude towards everyone. I feel that I have the correct skills and responsibilities to be able to fulfil this role. I took a particular interest in nursing as I want
My mom had a friend who introduced me to a doctor in Hungary (I should have mentioned I lived in Romania at that time) who had finally given me an answer to what I needed to know; what was wrong with me. He told me I had Alopecia Areata. It wasn’t a life threatening disease, it was only very annoying. The doctor gave me certain vitamins and told me to come back every two weeks. Every two weeks after that, I took a train with either my mom or grandmother to Hungary to get treated. These treatments had help me get back almost 60% of my hair. It was the most beautiful thing I have ever experienced in my life. Not only was I spending time with my family but I saw that people loved me and supported me no matter