Statement Of Purpose: A Career As A Registered Nurse

For a long time, I have wanted to pursue a career as a Registered nurse and look forward in accomplishing this goal here at Riverside City College to get my Associates Degree and Transfer to a university to get my Bachelor’s degree. What I know about this career is the responsibilities a nurse has such as recording patient’s medical history, give patients medications, help perform tests, and consulting with doctors and other healthcare professionals. In order to work as a Registered nurse, they must be licensed and mainly hire nurses with a bachelor’s degree or at least with experience. There are all sorts of nurses that work in different departments and with different patients that only specialize in one thing such as working with newborns, patients with conditions, disabilities or cancer. Although, a Registered nurse works with a variety of patients with different health concerns and of all ages.
Before I began the interview, I sat on one of the benches out in the quad where I found a perfect spot in the shade under the big oak tree
She is a Licensed Vocational nurse who returned to RCC to become a Registered nurse. She explains “I want to do more than be under the supervision of a Registered Nurse”. Since she has experience and has worked for a while now in this field, she says that Vocational nurses provide basic care for patients like monitoring patients’ health, bathing and dressing patients, and report the patient’s status to a Registered Nurse. Being a vocational nurse wasn’t what she wanted to work as but due to how competitive it is at RCC she found it easier to get into vocational nursing and then return to finish what she started. Working as a vocational nurse seemed like it wasn’t doing it for here, she wanted to do more than the basics of nursing but she still enjoyed it because she got to work with patients and experience what is like to be a nurse, just not the career she entitle