Scholarship Grant Why I Am Applying: I

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Why I am Applying:

I have two motives in applying for this course. The main motive is my personal goal and ambitions, and the second is the core values on which those ambitions are based. Both these have created an aptitude in me for nursing. The basic motive for me to become a nurse is based on my nature and core values that have been born with me. I am a giving person who has been used to empathize with those in pain and need. My childhood experiences have made me think of the better activities and developments in my activities that somehow can alleviate pain in others. The core value is that I must spend my life being useful to others in need, bringing them succor in need.

A medical education is far beyond my economic and other situations. Becoming a nurse can full fill the nature of my soul. Therefore I chose the profession with due care and am happy with whatever small service I can do to my fellow men and women. That being accomplished in part, I wish to enhance the ambition of becoming something of a thorough professional in the calling I have chosen. For that I need to improve my studies, qualification and knowledge. The reasons that prompt me to apply therefore are straightforward -- I wish to enhance my qualification, career and future effectiveness.

Why I am pursuing post-baccalaureate or professional studies

I have chosen the profession and am committed to it. I also have a great urge to learn and become an expert at whatever I do. Since nursing is a profession that can reach out to the needy, I would find my job satisfying. I also see that there are many things that I have to learn. The profession is growing in leaps and bounds, new technologies and concepts are being introduced, and therefore everyone in the profession has to study further. Secondly I wish to become a faculty some day because teaching is also a value with me as much as nursing.

So I am taking the first step that would eventually see me move up the ladder to reach a situation where not only I can become personally efficient and professional but also I can contribute to the learning of others. For that I need to enhance the qualification and knowledge. This is my motivating factor. Secondly I can appreciate that the course does allow me to continue my career because it has flexible schedules, with twelve hour shifts. (Discover Nursing, 2011b) The location and the place of practice and learning would also be ideal to me, and I can have the choice of my work place in future. For all these reasons I wish to be considered for the course.

How the Society's commitment to academic excellence will be furthered by my studies

I would not stop at the course but intend to continue onwards because I wish to reach a stage where not only that I would be a professional but also a person who can teach and serve others by guiding them and doing research. I wish to someday enrich human knowledge in this field with my own contributions. Having a bent of mind that is dedicated to learning I have also tempered my interests based on the needs of the community I intend serving and have taken part voluntarily in learning activities. No doubt the values I cherish can be achieved by becoming a volunteer. Perhaps my volunteering skills can be a part of the profession I have chosen, either way I chose the profession because I am by nature suited to it.

With the changing times, nursing is a career that leads one to become a registered nurse --RN. The post-baccalaureate nursing major will help me take the National Council Licensure Exam -- NCLEX-RN to become a registered nurse. The program is accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission -- NLNAC. Once I have my bachelor's degree my choice would not be restricted to only hospitals but also community-based agencies, hospices and many individuals who need nursing care. Further to this my ambition is to reach the apex of the profession, thus being able to teach and learn all my life.

To that end I also intend to go further to obtain a Master's degree for nurses that would only make me an eligible practitioner, but enable to help other aspirants by essaying for roles of faculty and contributing my own contributory research in nursing management, and other areas. The basics to all these steps are the current course and therefore in view of my ambition and dedication to my cause I may kindly be considered for admission. (Stkate, 2011) If given the opportunity to further my studies I am sure I shall be able to use the opportunity to reach the position I dream of in the academic world.

My commitment to campus and community service

I have stated earlier that my core values as a giving person has prompted me to choose the nursing profession where I tend to empathize with those in pain and need. The major reason why I am confident of doing community service is that the training and duties are having flexible schedules, and with the availability of many locations like urban hospitals, suburbs, I can also address my career concerns by a lateral shift in the career and move up the ladder. (Discover Nursing, 2011a)

Community service is not new to me, although I appear to be highly motivated and ambitious and career centered, I have already engaged in giving my contributions to the community. Thus volunteering run in my veins and it was cultivated in me from a very young age. As a teenager, I used to volunteer three weeks out of my summer holidays and work with physicians at a local clinic in Lagos, Nigeria. I used to diligently carry supplies for the doctor as he did his rounds. I also observed the doctors as they performed surgical procedures and patient care. As a little girl with a sheltered upbringing, it was an eye opening experience, which ended up being my first hands on experience working in a hospital setting. I later decided at the age of fifteen that I wanted to dedicate my time at various orphanages mainly in Lagos. I served as a mentor and an elder sister to young children especially girls. I gave them a sense of hope that anything is possible with hard work and dedication. I am devoted to this orphanage and I spend at least one month every year in Nigeria to help this great cause.