Passionate Profession
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
In the summer of 2004, I had a wonderful experience. I was participating in
a university internship. One night, a woman came into the hospital for
cataract surgery. She was nervous and scared. I came into the room and told
her that I would be with her every step of the way. She gained confidence
and told me that I was an angel who helped her fears disappear. The surgery
went well and once she recovered she told me that I had been a great help in
fighting her fears.
Being a compassionate helper is something that comes naturally to me. My
high schools years were spent in Cuba; over there if you know the right
people, you are allowed into places such as surgery rooms. One great
advantage that I had was that my step-father was a top doctor in my
hometown, Ciego de Avila. I used to spend my free time at the hospital, so I
could become familiar with this kind of profession. I wanted to be a doctor
and this was the best training for me.
At this moment, I knew that I had a calling to help others and enjoyed
making them feel secure. This experience is what nursing means: leading
people to health with compassion, intelligence, and competence. Every day
thousands of nurses lead a multitude of patients to well-being. Nurses are
leaders, regardless of title and position; they exercise leading-edge
authority to influence the health of those in their care. They use knowledge
and skills to make decisions with and about others and accept accountability
to provide care.
As a young student, I am a leader who supports my peers while pursing my
path of continued education, and I seek leadership experiences to help
others. I care deeply about those around me and envision myself as a leader
who guides them to a greater future. As a future nurse, I want to help
patients to achieve their dreams. As I achieve my personal vision of
leadership; I am offering my community hopes and dreams. I am planning go
ahead and pursue a Bachelor’s degree in nursing. In the future, I see
myself involved with nurse management in a hospital.
Over time, my life has changed for a variety of reasons. As my mom told me
one time “Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have
to go through.” I think people choose what they want to be, no matter
what. All of these experiences that I had when I was a teenager have made me
see that I have a calling to help others. I enjoyed making others feel happy
and that someone cares for them. Treating all people the same respect
without seeing their color, sexual orientation and even their race makes me
feel that I have not only helped someone else, but I have satisfied a
calling that I have to be a part of making someone’s life better.
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