Personal Narrative: Becoming A Nurse

I can vividly recall why I wanted to become a nurse, I was six years old. I can feel once more the burning pain of impotence scorching every single cell of my body, and my mind crying out in a horrendously tortured voice go, move, do something that almost drove me into insanity; the anger that almost drowned me strangling the air out of my lungs holding me in place. It was not that I did not want to, my whole being wanted to act, and I just did not know what to do. Nurses rushed in screaming out foreign things I did understand then, that I did not comprehend. Fifteen minutes full of excruciating torture. I watched lab coat people hastening coming in and out ignoring me, forgetting I was even in that room, crumbled in a corner with terror and …show more content…
My life has had a vast amount of monstrous obstacles that sometimes felt too humongous to overcome yet somehow I managed. Along the way, somehow, obstacles became a type of thrill; like Bob Marley said, "you never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have". The variety of complex emotions obstructions causes one to feel alive because of inner and outer struggle with self or circumstance. Every step and every decision I took brought me to this point in my life where I have the opportunity to advance my nursing career and getting certify as a phlebotomist by the end of fall semester. Dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion where the price of my goal. I took numerous advanced classes with teachers that piled homework on my back and deprived me of sleep, but that only wanted me to demonstrate my potential even more. I often spend my afternoons studying medical terminology and watching forensic files getting as much information as I could to prepare myself for school and academic future. My drive and intensity for medicine have me the chance to take this course in my high school that is limited and only gives it to those who show a mature state of mind. My extracurricular activities and school education gave me the perseverance and strength to reach my goals. In my community, good nurses and doctors are in critical need because of population growth Laredo is going through and lack of passion of human lives. I always been an anomaly, as I kid I wanted to become a mature, as a daughter I wanted to be a guardian, and as a citizen I feel I owe it to my community to transform the way patients and medical scholars see each other. I know it will not be easy, but I am apt for overcoming obstructions. All the knowledge my education and life taught me to never crumble or fear hardship. Two weeks into rotations, I was witness to a doctor giving notice