Adult Nursing Personal Statement

Why do you want to study this course or subject?

My ambition is to study Adult Nursing in university. Since I was a young girl, it has been my dream to help people in need. I want to bring smiles to people’s faces. I want to be a helping hand and make a difference in people’s lives. Watching my mum with patients made me acknowledge the impact nurses can have on people’s lives. I think nurses are wonderful people. They are overshadowed by doctors and other professions. Nurses are the ones who reassure patients that they are on their way to a full recovery and provide them with as much care and optimism. The reason I want to study Adult Nursing in the United Kingdom rather than Ireland is that the UK offers many more opportunities. The Graduate Prospects for Nursing students in the UK are impressively high, and the profession is in demand whether private or NHS, considering it is a very populated country. This university offers practical skills, and I feel like the clinical placements across various healthcare settings will help me understand the course more. It gives me a chance to learn in action rather than theory.

How have your qualifications and studies helped you to prepare for this course or subject?

Ever since I took up Biology for the Irish Leaving Certificate, I have been fascinated with the body and have always wondered why certain instances can have a positive/negative effect. I would like to broaden my studies in this area. In Transition Year, I was very lucky to have the opportunity to develop my people skills and complete a first aid course. I love helping people, and I feel that doing this course will help me improve my people skills and help me become a better person overall. I have been my class representative on three different occasions: student council, debs, and graduation committee. I am also a Meitheal leader this year. A Meitheal leader is one of 10 chosen final year students selected by interview to be responsible for the incoming first years and to make their transition into secondary school from primary school as smooth as possible. These roles involve meetings that include both students and staff, and I try my best to speak my opinions and implement changes. These responsibilities have refined and strengthened my time management and organisational skills.

What else have you done to prepare outside of education, and why are these experiences useful?

My mum has been the main influencer for my desired course. She is also a nurse, and she never comes home from work complaining as she loves her job. I regularly go to her ward, and I’m very friendly with the staff and patients. I did work experience at Peamount Hospital Dublin in 2015, and I loved it. The staff were so lovely in answering all my questions, and the patients were very kind. I also did work experience in Kerdiffstown, Co. Kildare, in an elderly holiday home, as I worked as a volunteer in a St. Vincent’s De Paul’s shop with my aunt in summer 2016. Every week, I saw new faces and experienced different personalities, and each was unique in their own way! These experiences have helped me choose what career in life I want to take. Since then, I have been determined to not only help people in pain, but I also want to have the independence of making my own decisions and building friendly relationships with my clients.