How To Become A Pediatric Nurse

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Since Maria was little she liked to help other people, she is a very charitable person that always look for the well-being of her family and for others. She like to help people in the possible way she can help. Maria has experienced what it is to help others, and the way it feels to help someone. Now that she is a bilingual person, Maria has the opportunity to help her parents and the Hispanic people. In some many occasions Maria has been the translator of her parents and of the Hispanic people. Maria has been helping her parents to translate them when they go to the doctor or to another place, she also has been helping in a dental clinic as a translator for the Hispanic patients who go to the clinic. Maria enjoys helping the people, and is something that she likes to do. She always has thinking that the best major for her is to become a Pediatric Nurse in the future, because she will help those children and newborns who are in need of medical attention. One way she can help is by giving her help, time, and her …show more content…
Her major was been always become a Pediatric Nurse. She is sure that this major she chose is the perfect one for her. The one she is going to put of her effort, love, time, and dedication on it. During this time she has been in the class, Maria know that become a Pediatric Nurse is her biggest dream in life and she will not change it for nothing, because is the dream that she has since she was little. During her life, Maria has been known about her strengths and weaknesses. Ones of her strengths is that she is very positive thinking, creative, disciplined, respectful, patient, honest, charitable, social, helpful, hard worker, and one the most important strengths is her family. Her weaknesses are that she don’t believe in others easily, she is not friendly easily, it’s hard for her find friends, she has trouble making important decisions, and it’s hard for her trust in

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