Undergraduate / I am the first child in the family of five - Experiences/persons made me choose my career [4]

Experiences/persons that made me choose my career.

I am a very logical person that believes that problems and situations does not define one"s self , and one should not be afraid to dream big as long as you are diligent, focused and hardworking. Choosing a career in the health sector was not a decision I made growing up, my mother was a medical laboratory scientist and she told me that even as a child, I would ask her why she was drawing blood from her patients and I was so inquisitive to know a lot of things in health, so it did not come as a surprise to them when I told that I would like to become a Nurse. I was in the Nursing school in my birth country Nigeria,before I came to the United States and continued to pursue my passion. However, along my journey in life, I made another decision to go to a medical school.

I am the first child in the family of five. I lost my younger sister to cancer at the age of seventeen. It was a very gruesome and devastating experience in my family especially to me because her sickness started back in Nigeria and she was taken to many doctors and physicians but none could detect the cause of her sickness. They always told us it was one disease or the other and they kept treating her for a disease which was not really the problem. I cried everyday as I watched my younger sister go through pains that was indescribable. My mother suffered and took her from one hospital to another in order to save her life. We had so many sleepless nights, all we did was to cry and wished we had a way to help alleviate her pains. It pained the most because the medications she was receiving from the doctors could not help her feel the pains less, and the fact that the diagnoses of the physicians were not the same , because one will call it leukemia and another will call it something else. My sister was getting skinnier and weaker as days rolled by before my father decided to bring her down to the United states. On reaching the United States, she was admitted in Texas Children Hospital,where the doctors confirmed that she was suffering from cancer and that it was already too late as the cancer has flown in to her blood stream. After months of treatment, they suggested that she was to be taken to a hospice since she was suffering from a terminal illness. she passed on in less than six months.

This experience did not only devastate me but it made me grow stronger as individual, and made me take the decision of becoming a doctor(Oncologist). Her last words on her dying bed to me was that if she ever made it alive from her sickness that she will be an Oncologist and build a hospital in Nigeria, in order to help people dying from this deadly disease, sadly she did not not make it from the sickness, but her dream and passion did not die with her, which is what made me take a decision to become a medical doctor(Oncologist). I know it is not going to be an easy journey, since the funds are quite expensive in order to be in a medical school. However, I care less about how long it will take as long as I know that someday, I will proudly look in to her pictures and smile because I spent the rest of my life pursing her passion and finally accomplished it. I will use the scholarship fund in my career pursuit and hope that someday, I will help get the cure of this deadly disease called cancer.

Scholarship / Bachelor's degree in Nursing; SHORT & LONG TERM GOALS [2]

My short and long term goals

I define my objectives as I see them. I associate them with my values knowing that the task at hand is essential in achieving them. As an aspiring Nurse, my short term goal is to work endlessly towards obtaining my Bachelor's degree in Nursing. I put in more efforts, more enthusiasm and more time towards achieving my dreams and accomplishing my passion. I want to become all I could in my education since am still young and has the burning passion to become the best. I place an emphasis on education because I believe it is the vehicle that allows us to move forward in life. I am also working on my personality to be vigilant, patient, attentive and competent because these are the attributes that encompasses one as being a Nurse.

In all honesty, it has taken me a long while to get where I am. Ever since High school, I was never that child who had a back bone, even though I was smart, I never had the determination to push my limits and come out from my comfort zone, but that changed when I realized what I was capable of. I have stuck to my confidence ever since my fresh-man year.

In my short term goal, I also intend on working in a hospital as a volunteer since I have a license as a Nurse Aide. My aim of doing this is to gain work experience and well needed skill in my career as a Nurse.

My long term goal is to become a medical Doctor. That is one of my reasons of majoring in Nursing since it is a related course to medicine and hopefully transfer my credit hours to a medical school. I want to be an oncologist and help in the cure of cancer. I found myself in constant admiration for Doctors and I envision myself to become one someday in order to make impacts on people's lives. I want to be fully devoted in medical researches, putting smiles on people's faces and help create platforms for the less-privileged in caring for their well-being. I want to become an industrious doctor who is always willing to help patients at any point in time. Health care professionals have touched my life in different areas through the years, and I feel compelled to leave a similar impact on the lives of others.