Pnp Personal Statement

1. Early on in life and through a culmination of my own personal experiences, I realized that I was meant to be a pediatric nurse. The impact of my own experiences coupled with the idea of caring for others especially children was always very appealing to me. That said, although I knew I wanted to be a pediatric nurse, it was not until my clinical rotations during my undergraduate degree and even more recently through my job in an outpatient practice that I realized my passion lies in community health nursing.
It is this passion and commitment to providing high-quality health care within the community that fuels my aspiration and desire to become a pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) within a community health setting. While I love being a nurse and all that it encompasses, I believe that in the role of a PNP, I will have an even greater opportunity to teach, serve, and treat children and their families within the communities in which they live. In this role, I look forward to truly getting to know the patient as a whole, as well as working on a closer level with both them and their families to implement primary prevention strategies aimed to keep children out of hospitals whenever possible. I have learned throughout the clinical rotations I experienced and even more so through my current job in a clinic, that educating patients and their …show more content…
I enjoy learning about pathophysiology and in collaboration with doctors and other providers, am interested in providing a more involved level of care for patients and their families. While I will never lose the qualities that encompass being a nurse such as compassion, care, and empathy, I hope to instead incorporate those into my new role as a PNP and diagnosis, treat, and evaluate patients with those qualities as the cornerstone of my delivery of