On the Mission to Help People: Motivation on Becoming a Nurse

I plan on pursuing the profession of nursing. I do not know what specific field I want to go into, but I know what values and beliefs I want to hold myself to. I want to pursue this profession because I enjoy helping people and caring for ones that cannot care for themselves at the time. I want to help improve a person’s life in any way possible and be able to know I made a difference in someone else’s life and did not focus only on myself.

My mission is to help people live their best lives, whether it be helping them after an injury or helping someone recover from an illness. Being a nurse you, “are responsible for lifelong learning, accountability for their practice and participation in interdisciplinary activities” (University Health System). As a future nurse I want these few guidelines to be part of what I live and work by. I want to continue to learn more, so that I will be prepared for anything that is thrown in my direction. I want to be open-minded to new techniques and ideas in the medical field in order to meet the needs of my patients. A patient’s physical need is not the only aspect that makes someone healthy, but I believe it is also someone’s mental, spiritual, and social health that makes one healthy.

When meeting all of those aspects you are not just fixing one specific need that might only be a temporary fix, but you are taking care of the patient as a whole so that it can lead to a long-term fix. I want to lead by example and have all aspects I listed above to be something I also live by and apply to myself, that way the patients will know that it is possible to also achievable to be healthy all around and not just be a far-off idea they think they could never reach. I feel this will help me be a better person and a better nurse in the future. It will keep me accountable and help me go back to the basics of why I wanted to pursue nursing and what aspects I think and know are important. Overall, I want to impact my future patients in the best way I can and help them live the healthiest lives they are capable of living.