Throughout the last year, society has faced the severe challenges posed by the widespread pandemic of the COVID-19, requiring healthcare professionals to reinforce their capabilities and determination to serve public healthcare. The encountered educational pathway into my future nursing profession and practice provided me with a large body of knowledge and learning experience. I genuinely hope that the degree I have obtained significantly changed my knowledge and skills in a meaningful way to help me become a dedicated nurse and perform a transformative role as a healthcare provider. In personal terms, the attained knowledge has laid a fundamental groundwork to be at the forefront of advancing the health and welfare of the nation.
Today, it is particularly important to remind me of the underlying reason, which made me choose this profession and evolve as a nurse practitioner. The decision to become a nurse was driven by a strong determination to develop servant leadership qualities within my future occupation and considerably contribute to the society I live in. The medical workers always prove to be the ones making a significant change on a global level, particularly during the spread of the pandemic, as it happened in 2020.
My key inspiration comprised my accomplishments, dedication to excellence in patient care, and preparedness for never-ending challenges (Weberg, Porter-O’Grady, Mangold, and Malloch, 2018). However, an essential impetus was the obscure role of healthcare heroes in the ordinary life of civil society, which I aimed to explore and engage myself in.
As of now, my professional journey begins and sets a broad path of opportunities and challenges in my future career as a nurse. I am determined to become a nurse manifesting leadership qualities, empathy, emotional stability, critical thinking, open-mindless, versatility, flexibility, assertiveness, ethics, and reliability in my nursing practice. Most importantly, I aim to build robust relationships with my patients based on trust, respect, and constant assistance in their arduous journey. This represents the growth and change I envision for myself in my nursing career. By becoming a nurse, I promise myself and my future team and patients to serve societal health with a persistent sense of human dignity, integrity, independence, altruism, and social equity.
Reference
Weberg, D., Porter-O’Grady, T., Mangold, K., & Malloch, K. (2018). Leadership in nursing practice. Jones & Bartlett Learning.