Both as a follower of Christ and as an aspiring healthcare professional, I place a strong emphasis on serving others. Over the last few years, I have formed an immense passion for philanthropy work. This passion has developed into leadership roles and internship opportunities that have fostered my growing interest in healthcare, ultimately leading to my decision to pursue a career as a nurse.
I originally hail from a rural town in Southern Oklahoma, where I lived for many years before moving to Denison for better education opportunities. My background as a citizen of a rural community has been the foundation for my passion to pursue higher education, especially influencing my decision to go into healthcare. As I have witnessed the preceding classes of my high school go to college and earn their degrees, I have yet to see many return to their hometown to give their talents back to the community that raised them. However great my desire to leave my rural community and seek educational opportunity, my desire to return as an educated individual is greater. Whenever students leave their rural hometowns to pursue education and fail to return permanently, rural communities stay at a disadvantage. They are left in a vicious cycle that continues to widen the urban-rural education divide. Consequently, healthcare in these communities continues to be less accessible and reliable. My rural Oklahoma hometown doesn’t have any hospitals, clinics, or health departments. Many people have to travel to the neighboring town to access a clinic, two towns to access a hospital, and sometimes hours to receive specialized treatment. I have a passion to change this, I believe that the divide between rural education and healthcare can be filled. As a student from a rural community who is actively seeking a career in healthcare, it is my intent to return to my community as an educated individual who can provide healthcare opportunities in a place that is lacking.
This is where my purpose and my passion meet in a way that has potential to make a big impact on a community that means so much to me. I will make a difference in the lives of the citizens of rural communities by meeting the growing need for healthcare professionals, and making care more accessible. By providing exceptional healthcare and serving the people of my community, I can make a difference in the lives of patients and even other aspiring healthcare professionals. All it takes is the implementation of one clinic to create a demand for jobs in a rural area. Students will realize that they don’t have to leave their hometown to find work, and will subsequently continue the growth of rural healthcare, a change I hope to see grow and inspire in my career.
Commitment is the state or quality of being dedicated to a cause or activity. I believe commitment is something that you place on things you value in life, one of those being for me is my future career as a pediatric nurse. Given the fact I love children and always been passionate to serve others, this profession is something I'm committing myself to. Growing up I was surrounded by other nurses within my family, they each had their own stories to share as why they loved what they did. Seeing their level of passion as well as commitment was something that radiated within each one of them and something I wanted to see in myself as I grew up.
With this goal in mind I am continuing my education at Grayson College to obtain my RN degree to become a pediatric nurse. In high school I took 3 years of health sciences classes and 1 year of clinicals, I chose to take these classes to expand my medical abilities as well as my knowledge. While attending college working towards my degree, I want to work at TMC as a patient care tech. This will allow me to apply the things I am learning into the work force. My desire to apply at TMC was created during clinicals when I would work alongside the PCT's, shadowing them and learning their health care journeys. Attending Grayson and working at TMC is me fully committing myself to build my knowledge, skills, and character traits, I believe will be needed to become the positive aspect I want to be too those I am providing care to. Even after graduating college I will continue to grow in all I do to be the best for each and everyone of my patients. I am aware that this career will need me to show up everyday 100% committed to being patient, resilience, and empathetic. Working each day I want to create a safe, positive, and healing environment to who ever walking through the doors. I strive to make each children feel cared for, seen, and heard. Working with children will also require me to be able to communicate with their guardians. Building a bound with both the children as well as the guardians will be something I prioritize.
Receiving this scholarship will allow me to focus on my education rather than the financial burden that will be placed on me. I am 100% committed to becoming a pediatric nurse and beyond excited to see the lasting impact I will be placing on the lives around me.
Ever since I was a little child, I have been fascinated with the medical profession because when my baby brother was born, I was four years of age, but after witnessing the miracle of birth, I vowed to myself: I will be a baby-delivery doctor. This experience in life created profound imprints on me and brought me to my destination. I then studied diligently for numerous long hours to become a labor and delivery nurse, a career that I feel is one of the best and most rewarding in the health care field. My journey took me to the University of Arkansas, and I was thrilled to be accepted into my school of choice.
This experience has been able to fully involve me in the process of nursing education, learning and developing knowledge and skills that prepare me for professional practice. I have also worked extremely hard, having a passion to provide and make a good impression on other people. I do know the limit of being warm and of providing quality care, especially during one of life's most wonderful experiences—childbirth. As I would see myself in this position as a future labor and delivery nurse, I do have the goal of being one of the best of the best of what is available in the profession.
I would nothing short of love to give every woman, both past and present financially, the assurance to receive the very best in healthcare medicine when she gives birth. I also strongly believe that every woman needs to be made to feel cared for, respected, and loved during this life-altering process. I am most interested in fighting the poor who do not have access to good treatment, and would like to bridge the gap by providing equal significance to everyone. My action would be to give a nurturing and caring environment to pregnant women. I want to be their strength and inspiration and lead them through labor and delivery processes with confidence.
My commitment to continuing learning and development will give me the confidence of being current in the context of best practices as well as continuing techniques in mother care. I would like to be an inspiration and hope for families so they can have their best in this time of vulnerability. Finally, my dream of being a labor and delivery nurse is not only a job; it's being able to be of impact in the life of a woman and her family. This makes me optimistic, and I can't wait to be able to contribute to the development of the future of medicine, birth by birth.
