NURSING

Nursing
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My desire to apply for Adult Nursing stems but believe this has helped me become the
from my aspiration for a career as a Health person I am today; patient, understanding and
Visitor. Since having my own children, I have
been interested in health & wellbeing compassionate. Both motherhood and the
especially after my first child who, unknown at NHS have given me excellent time
first, was intolerant to milk and very unwell for management skills and helped me adapt too
the first few months. The support and many situations such as calming down angry
understanding from my health visitor was or worried patients at outpatient appointments
inspiring and put me completely at ease with and providing methodical waiting times.
my baby. She helped me through a
Currently being self-employed means I have to
challenging time and I would like to be able to
be extremely organized with excellent
offer the same encouragement and
delegation skills with a flexible attitude both
compassion to other new mothers.
with my work colleagues and customers. I am
As a former employee of the National Health punctual, polite and have excellent attention to
Service, I learnt a lot from working with detail. My professionalism and pleasant
patients and colleagues. I enjoyed supporting personality were always appreciated with my
others and loved the time I spent working in hospital patients who regularly asked for me in
the healthcare environment. During my 10 clinics as they said they could understand me
years as a Phlebotomist and Medical well and that I chatted with them and put them
Laboratory Assistant (Advanced), my training at ease during, often stressful and worrying
and work were the equivalent to an NVQ Level situations. This is now also appreciated with
3 and included IT skills in Microsoft Outlook, my new clients, many of whom are elderly and
the Patient Administration System and the feel secure and at ease with me in their homes.
Anticoagulant computer, DAWN AC, with I hope in the future when I reach my goal, all of
physical skills in all Laboratory routine tasks, these will be useful in my role as a Health
working within a team in clinics and the Visitor.
laboratory’s and independently on projects. I
Socially, I enjoy the theatre and cinema as well
attended many internal formal qualifications
as dining out with friends and family. My main
such as H.I.V, Health & Safety, Fire
hobby is my allotment, where I like to grow as
Awareness, Resuscitation and Self
much organic produce to keep myself and my
Assertiveness.
family healthy. I like to travel around England
As a mature student I realised that my and its Counties, meet the local people & visit
education and examinations would need their historic buildings and surroundings and
updating and that is why I have studied Maths when I have the time I really enjoy researching
& English skills to level 2. I am currently my family history and genealogy. My children
studying the Access to HE Diploma (Health are now adults so I feel now is the time that I
Professions) where I expect to do well in all can start working towards the career that I
aspects. So far I have enjoyed the DNA tasks have waited many years to achieve. I am
and find inheritance & reproduction of life very totally independent and ready for a new
interesting. After obtaining my Nursing Degree beginning. I hope that my future training and
I would like to specialise on an Approved study brings me closer to the career choice I
programme into Public Health visiting to have made for myself and that your university
become a Health Visitor. is the place that I can start this very important
new chapter. I therefore urge you to consider
Prior to working in the NHS, I was a housewife my application.
& mother. I found the role of motherhood
rewarding, fulfilling and challenging at times,
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Nursing is a profession suited to those that are stays with that individual for years and I wish
caring, dedicated, reliable and patient. I have to be a nurse who tries hard to provide the
all these skills and feel that being a nurse best care I possibly can. I have a genuine
would be the best way for me to utilise my interest in doing a job where I feel I am making
abilities and develop an interesting and a difference to people’s lives and providing
fulfilling career. I feel I have a realistic comfort at a time when people are most
understanding of the nursing profession. An vulnerable.
important characteristic of a nurse is to have
the ability to understand others’ needs and to I like to challenge myself and enjoy solving
be able to do so without prejudice. I am very problems. In the summer of 2013 I took part in
glad that nursing is now taken seriously as a a month-long volunteering trip to Kenya as part
profession and that a degree is necessary to of a team of 15. The trip taught me how to
enter the field. I am excited at the prospect of work effectively as part of a team in order to
learning how to be a nurse in such a thorough achieve common goals. We completed a
way and feel that gaining a nursing degree will number of tasks that benefitted the local
give me the confidence to understand difficult community. Since leaving college I have been
care situations and to be able to react in the working in Sankeys Nightclub (Manchester) as
appropriate way, as well as predicting how to a member of the barstaff, which has taught me
deal with patients. I have been to a number of how to think on my feet and to deal with
open days at universities and I am looking stressful situations.
forward to my training and the balance of
I enjoy working with members of the public
classroom and practical learning.
from different backgrounds and different ages,
I strongly believe in the values of the National as part of a team of colleagues; no two days
Health Services and that good care should be are the same and I find this way of working
available to all. I would like to play a role, exciting and stimulating. I worked as part of a
however small, in ensuring their preservation. I campaign in the summer of 2014 helping a
chose to study Health and Social Care as an company sponsored by the NHS to promote a
A-level, already thinking that I might choose ‘Smoke Free North West’. The campaign was
nursing as a career. I particularly enjoyed designed to discourage children from starting
leaning about health care legislation and to smoke. I had to converse with members of
especially equality and diversity polices. I now the public on the street and interview them
know how important it is to maintain about the campaign and record their opinions.
confidentiality and dignity in care settings and I found the work enjoyable and I liked working
to respect the patient’s choices and beliefs. with members of the public. My manager
commended me for my positive and dynamic
I am very aware that nursing is a challenging manner.
and difficult field and I know that being a nurse
requires tremendous amounts of commitment I am a social and friendly person who is at
and hard work. However, I feel that the sense ease with a range of other people. I have been
of achievement gained from such a rewarding to a number of different schools and colleges,
role would outweigh the challenges I will face including a year in Chicago when I was 8
as a nurse. I am about to start a job as a years old. I enjoy travelling, and have been to
health care assistant with Sunrise Care in a number of places in Africa, America and
Manchester looking after patients with a Europe. I like the challenge of traveling and
variety of different needs, improving the quality the excitement of encountering new things and
of their lives and helping them to live new situations.
independently. The way a patient is treated