Throughout the Summer and Fall of 2022, I was applying to numerous nursing programs. Attached is my personal statement which includes how I feel about nursing as a profession and what events throughout my life that have lead me to pursue this kind of career. While my feelings towards nursing are important, they wouldn't help me get into nursing programs if I was unable to articulate them into a professional style paper. Articulation will be very important in my future career as a Clinical Nurse Leader, as I will have to analyze data and be able to concisely and accurately articulate the important aspects of said data.

1. Personal Statement
As a young girl I remember visiting my Grandmother in her condo, as this is what I
looked forward to every weekend. She began suffering from symptoms of Dementia and then
had to move to a nursing home, where she currently resides. As I matured, I started to pay close
attention to the nurses that took care of my Grandmother. I was in awe of the high level of care
and compassion they administered to her, and made a personal goal of becoming a nurse in the
future. I aspired to not only impact the lives of my future patients the way these nurses impacted
my Grandmother’s, but also to obtain the education I needed in order to have the knowledge
these brilliant nurses encompassed.
The first step of my plan to become a nurse started in the fall of my senior year of High
School when I applied to the University of Georgia (. After being accepted, I finally started pre-
nursing classes the following fall in Athens. Not only did I obtain knowledge from science-based
classes such as Anatomy and Chemistry, I gained insightful knowledge on human development
due to the many classes I’ve taken inside of my major: Human Development and Family
Science. Along with these classes, I decided to get involved with the community in order to
develop a more hands-on educational experience. While volunteering for an after-school
program for elementary-aged children as a tutor, I learned the value of selflessness. Even though
these children were under-privileged, they would share what little they had amongst each other
without question. Although I was there to teach them, these children ended up teaching me not
only how a good nurse should act, but how human beings should treat one another. I also decided
to volunteer at a local hospice center where I was assigned one resident to visit. Within a handful

2. of visits my Ms. Smith and I began to form a close relationship, where I learned the value of
time. Ms. Smith would tell me every visit that time is the most valuable thing a person can give,
and I started to believe her after watching her face light up every time I came to her room. As a
nurse, I want my future patients to know that whatever time I have available will always be spent
on ensuring their physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing.
As a prospective nurse, there are many more skills that I will need to acquire in order to
treat my patients properly. I look forward to learning these skills and using them one day to
become the nurse I aspire to be; selfless, compassionate, and determined.