When I had not yet fully established a plan for the future, I came across a turning point and decided to pursue a graduate study in nursing. Suffering from acute and chronic stomach cramps I had since high school, I went to see physicians quite often in the last quarter of college. One of the physicians was a nurse practitioner, which was an occupation that I was not familiar with at the time. I asked her what a nurse practitioner was, and she was delighted to explain her job and how much she enjoyed it. After coming home, I researched careers in nursing; I was fascinated by a wide variety of career options and pathways that nursing field had. I, then, recalled my dream of becoming a doctor and working in the medical field. I also remembered my passion and effort I used to put in order to achieve my goal. Moreover, as the nurse practitioner did, I would wish to inspire others and give them another opportunities. Ever since I have set a goal to reach, I have become mentally, physically, and spiritually healthier and stronger. Health and family issues once affected my academic performance; however, the
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Being a nurse practitioner is more than writing out prescriptions but providing better health educations to avert preventable diseases. According to the WHO, chronic diseases and poverty are closely related; however, low-income medical clinics often have not enough physicians when there is a high demand for physicians. For that reason, I plan to volunteer at such clinics for once a week or twice a month. If I would work as a volunteer, the clinics would use their financial resources on patients. I am also aware of this situation at the low-income clinics because my parents were used to be in the Alameda Alliance for Health program. They had to wait for months to see their physicians because physicians were hardly
Being a nurse practitioner is more than writing out prescriptions but providing better health educations to avert preventable diseases. According to the WHO, chronic diseases and poverty are closely related; however, low-income medical clinics often have not enough physicians when there is a high demand for physicians. For that reason, I plan to volunteer at such clinics for once a week or twice a month. If I would work as a volunteer, the clinics would use their financial resources on patients. I am also aware of this situation at the low-income clinics because my parents were used to be in the Alameda Alliance for Health program. They had to wait for months to see their physicians because physicians were hardly