This is a concerted effort to highlight me, my profession and my career. This includes my career goal which is to become a Nurse Practitioner which will help me to extend my services to ensure health care services are made available to especially those residing in rural areas.
This is an attempt to express my Program of Study (POS) and Professional Development Plan (PDP) and reasons for my choice of Masters in Nursing from Walden University.
Write up
I am Jessy born into a very simple family consisting of my grandfather, parents, three brothers and two sisters. My closeness to grandfather and watching the role of nurses during his illness and his last days, had developed in me an admiration to the profession of a Nurse. With a noble intention of serving human kind, Nursing took the mainstream of my ambition. Stories of Florence Nightingale in my schooling days had a great impact on my life. Thus my aspiration took the center stage of my life and Associate Nurse degree in India.
My desire to excel in my profession took a big leap when I shifted to USA 20 years ago. Ever since, there has been no looking back. With illustrious years of experience as a professional nurse, my intention to raise my career graph always held its priority in my life. However, the fact of being a working mother took a toll on availability of time to allot for professional progression and had to wait until two sons were old enough to take care of themselves.
The Term Paper on Life and Career of Mariah Carey
With her unique talent and signature vocal abilities, Mariah Carey commanded the world’s attention when she made her musical debut in the early nineties. In less than a decade, Mariah Carey emerged as one of the most popular and widely acclaimed talents in music. As a singer and songwriter, Carey has been recognized with the most prestigious accolades in the industry, including two Grammy ...
Working as Registered Nurse at Templeton, I opted online course to complete Bachelors in Nursing. And I did. Truly so, nothing succeeds like success. Encouraged by success, my ambition grew more to be a Nurse Practitioner.
Over the number of years as a Resident Nurse, I have developed a close relationship with my patients that took me much beyond the boundaries of the hospital, and I could relate to my patients with utmost ease, and understand their feelings.
As a Nurse Practitioner, I wish to take another step forward to fill up the gap between patients and physicians. I could work in conjunction with physicians to give patients the much needed compassion, strength and advocacy and enlighten them about primary health care which is the right of every citizen. This would bless me with an opportunity to widen my role as a nurse, allowing me to diagnose and treat acute and chronic health problems like dermatology, gastroenterology, neurology, urology, and hematology in a variety of clinical practice.
I could extend my professional touch in respect to women’s health, college health, psychiatric health, pediatric health, emergency rooms, nursing homes, public health etc. Additionally, as a Nurse practitioner, can get involved in tele-health and enable to evaluate, monitor and follow up with patients availing advanced telecommunication system.
As I have experienced a lack of emphasis of health care to rural areas, as a Nurse Practitioner I can be instrumental in extending my services especially to rural population and ensure special attention and care to chronic diseases like Congestive Heart Failures, Diabetes, mental illness etc. and thus be instrumental in making an apparent difference to the patients and be an asset in the field of health care for individuals, families and communities.
I can as a Nurse Practitioner broaden my services for primary health care as there is a visible shortage of general physicians as most of them are opting for specialty practice. With a certain perpetual changes in social and economical, I can adapt and reach out to much more especially in rural and less reachable areas and make primary health care more accessible and affordable with shift of certain responsibilities to Nurse Practitioner to enable better implementation of Affordable Care Act to even vulnerable and undeserved sections of the society. Prescription of medications, provide treatment for acute minor illnesses and infections like sinus, throat, urinary tract etc.
The Essay on The History of Public Health and the Role of the Community/Public Health Nurse
The History of Public Health and the Role of the Community/Public Health Nurse When considering the evolution of healthcare and the role of the nurse in the United States, many people might first consider this in the context of the hospital setting. While the history of acute care is an important area to consider, it is imperative that equal attention be given to the history of public health and ...
As a Nurse Practitioner, I can provide accessible and affordable comprehensive health care and follow up to many who miss that personal touch in practice and suggest amendments and additions to the government while framing Health Care policies
Nurse practitioners, of course cannot replace physicians entirely but a louder support being signaled from different quarters of medical fraternity for removal of practice restrictions although the responsibilities may change from state to state.
Conclusion
To pursue my career goal of Nurse Practitioner, I could not find a better institution than Walden’s to do my Masters in Nursing. A clear winner, Walden is a center with formidable academicians on board, with amazing accessibility and astounding facilities like the library etc. True to their mission statement, Walden’s accommodates students with no discrimination what so ever and Walden’s service to the society is inimitable as it churns out batches of professionals not only nurses but also professionals in various fields of health care.
Masters from Walden’s certainly will add up my knowledge much beyond the areas of basic nursing but also attain wider knowledge on social changes in health care and the changes in health care policies adopted and incorporated by the government from time to time. And most of all I will be able to convert my newly acquired knowledge in service of the society.
