I am choosing the nursing profession because I have always had the desire to help people for as long as I can remember. More specifically, I have always wanted to help children so that they could feel as little pain and stress as possible.

When I was 10 years old, I wanted to be a therapist and learned that I didn't like psychology very much. When I was 18, I wanted to be a teacher and realized I needed a more active and faster-paced career.

I recently came to understand that the proper career path was staring at me all along. Throughout my 20 years of life, I have seen many deaths and many family members have extended hospital visits. The memories of these visits give me the courage and determination to become a nurse.

When I needed information about a loved one, nurses would talk to me and walk me through what was happening. Nurses are truly the backbone of the hospital, and they should be treated as such.

I would like to help families cope and understand what is going on in their lives and do everything in my power to ease their pain. I would like to be the nurse who has worked for over 10 hours and still treats every patient with a smile and charm. I would like to set the example of what proper medical treatment and care should look like.

I would love the opportunity to become a nurse solely to put as much good into the world as I can. I would like to help patients and hopefully change their lives for the better with my knowledge and wisdom.

I deserve the chance to become a nurse because I am passionate about the outcome of patients' lives, and I will do everything I can to help anyone in my care.