Agcp Personal Statement

Becoming an AGPCNP will provide me with the knowledge and training to safely and effectively treat adult patients across the lifespan. Although I entered this program planning to work as an FNP, experiences during the pre-specialty year have confirmed my passion for the adult patient. Specifically, I hope to serve rural communities as a primary care provider, focusing my practice on the management of chronic disease in older adults. My passion for older adults is rooted in the experiences I had throughout the summers of my undergraduate career. I spent my summers with a nonprofit in rural North Carolina partnering with churches, social workers, and businesses to complete home repair for low-income families. While seemingly unrelated to nursing, my summer work allowed me to complete hundreds of home visits, teaching me the importance of navigating the complexity of communities and of individuals. The most important lesson I learned over those summers is that client …show more content…
Although FNPs fill an important role in our health care system, focusing my studies and practice on gerontology will allow me to better provide for the older adult population. My first semester clinical site was on a medical-surgical floor in Medical Center North, and most of the patients on that unit are older adults who were from surrounding rural counties. Throughout this rotation, my patients taught me the immense difficulty of managing chronic disease on top of working, parenting, and maintaining quality of life, especially when providers are inaccessible. Meeting with residents at Cumberland View Towers for Community Heath has re-enforced the complexity associated with primary care in older adults. As health issues increase in complexity and resources decrease, it is difficult for patients to