Adult Nursing Personal Statement

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My studying Access to Higher Eduction Nursing and Midwifery was influenced by my interest in undertaking study in an undergraduate Nursing degree; to equip me for a successful career in adult nursing. The reason why I want to be a nurse was from my personal experience when I was young and helpless. Learning new and more material will be a benefit to me greatly working towards my career of choice, I will get a mature understanding of what's actually adult nursing and find out more about the role of an adult nurse. I would like the opportunity to develop and gain knowledge and understanding it more technically on the practical side.
Studying this course was a great fascinating experience, talking about the biological side knowing a lot about the human body and knowing about different diseases we hear about day to day, their cure. I am a very ambitious and also enthusiastic individual who has always enjoyed science from a young age and found it interesting. This is because I admired it and it made me curious all the time trying to find out how everything works, how come we all have hearts or why we have lungs.
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I have undertaken a get into health programme; have done short training with Prince’s Trust for health and social care, during the summer holidays. I did my Emergency First Aid training together with my health and safety at Colchester institute it helped understand somethings I did not have knowledge in when it comes to health care and got my certificates after. I already had experience in child care and it partly helped me when I was on my work placement with assisting the residence. During this period I gained some skills like; being patient, good listening, communication skills, Time management, good problem solving and learnt to adapt to different

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