I am applying for Adult Nursing as I am eager to pursue a career in which I can have a positive impact on people’s lives every day. I have always looked upon nursing and other medical professionals’ roles with respect, increasingly so during the current pandemic.
I am interested in nursing as it is a challenging and rewarding profession with lots of growth opportunities. I love to learn and want to be able to continuously develop through my career, I know that within nursing there are always ways to improve and expand my knowledge as it is an ever-changing industry and versatile field. I understand that nursing is far from easy and there will be many challenges including long and busy shifts as well as the death of patients, however, I know I can overcome these challenges.
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I have researched the position of a nurse through the Nursing and Midwifery Council website and the NHS careers website and understand the role of a nurse and its importance. I believe I would be a competent nurse as I am a caring person with strong listening skills, empathy, and patience. I share the values of the NHS including treating everyone with respect and dignity, working together as a team, treating everybody equally, and having compassion.
Since November 2019 I have worked as a Recreational Assistant at a Leisure Centre. This role includes lifeguarding, cleaning, customer service, and changing equipment ready for customers. This has improved my observation and communication skills and taught me how to help customers of all types and involves acting quickly in emergencies and pressured situations. This job has also improved my attention to detail as I must be attentive always to ensure the safety of customers. During monthly training, we go over multiple common health issues and are taught to recognize the early signs of these health issues such as heart attack, stroke, asthma attack, and much more as a preventative measure so we can act early and decrease the risk, which is useful in a nursing career. During work, I have performed basic first aid on several customers and had to work with panicked and distressed customers where I needed to help them stay calm. Despite feeling incredibly stressed I have always coped well under this pressure and helped the customers as needed and not let my emotions interfere with my role.
I have also worked at a racecourse restaurant as a food runner and order taker which involves communicating with customers while working in a fast-paced environment with stress on timings and quality of service. This helped to develop my time management skills and increase my confidence around customers. Working here helped me realize I enjoy this work environment and that I enjoy being busy, working with different people, and facing different challenges every day which is a large aspect of nursing as every day is different.
I have read The Emperor of All Maladies written by Siddhartha Mukherjee which is a full biography of cancer and talks about the research and development in cancer treatment and how it changes and develops over time. Reading this interested me in the development of healthcare and how crucial and universal it is. It also encouraged me to pursue a career in nursing.
Another book I have read is Life at the Extremes written by Frances Ashcroft which is about the science of survival and investigates the physiology of humans, what our limits are, and how we differ from other animals and adapt to different conditions through scientific reasoning alongside real-life stories. The anatomy and physiology of the human body is what first interested me in Biology which led to my interest in nursing and is something that I would like to learn more about and know would be useful in a nursing career.
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