Why I am Thinking off Career in Nursing Since as long as I can remember I have wanted to be a doctor. I wanted to “fix” people when they were sick and make them feel better. I am also a very compassionate person and friends and family know they can always come to me if they have something going on. My main goal in life, if I never accomplish anything else, is to make a difference, for the better, in someone’s life. I think by being a nurse I have a good chance of completing my life goal. I started out wanting to be a doctor since I was about 5 years old.
I was always in “advanced” classes all throughout grade school and into high school. I even started college with majoring in chemical engineering with the pre-med option. I was not at all interested in chemical engineering but had been told it would look better on my application into medical school if I had a harder major. By the spring I had changed my mind and my major was now early childhood education. It was such a huge change that I basically only realized I had no idea what I wanted to do.
I ended taking some time off school to work and fugue things out with hat I wanted to be since I couldn’t keep saying I would when I grew up because it reality I was a grown up. I went to school one summer and got SLEET certified to be a security guard and never ended up actually working in that field because the interest just wasn’t there. Then two years ago I heard how easy it is to get a Job if you have some kind of medical license or certificate and that you will always have a Job since they are in such high demand. I then decided to go to school to be a certified nurse aide (CAN).
I immediate got a Job working in a nursing home after I got my CAN science and realized it was true about how easy it was to find a Job. I wasn’t to fond of the atmosphere in a nursing home but I loved my Job. I loved being able to help those people with tasks they weren’t able to do themselves. That’s when I decided to go to nursing school instead of being a CAN for the rest of my life (It wasn’t a livable wage by any means). I did a year of an associate program of nursing school and I still very much loved it but it was not a good school at all.
That is when I found SUN and started looking into their program. As soon as I stepped onto campus I knew this is where I wanted to continue my Journey. Part of me still wants to go to medical school and become a doctor but I also want to complete something first. I can’t keep running from being a grown up by not making a career choice. I plan to complete nursing school and take the extra classes I need to even apply to medical school that way I will still have my bachelor’s degree and can start working but if I do decide to apply to medical school I can. Nursing and Early Childhood Education By Andrea-Washman
