Respond to all three questions below in your personal statement. Your personal statement should be no more than 1,000 words total for all three responses. 1. Explain your interest in nursing practice, using the American Nurses Association’s definition of nursing below. Describe an example of how you observed this role applied and how you might demonstrate this role in your future nursing practice. How did you gain an understanding of the nursing role? Describe your experience. Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations. 2. Reflect upon and describe a strength and a weakness you have identified about yourself in the context of your work or volunteer experience. Self-reflection about weaknesses and opportunities for improvement is as important as the identification of a strength. Provide at least one specific example and describe the setting, duration of the experience, skills learned and applied, and how your interactions with others (., health care professionals, patients, and their families) have helped you clarify your future aspirations as a nurse. 3. Cultural humility is an essential aspect of healthcare and nursing. Cultural humility includes three principles: a. Lifelong learning and critical self-reflection, b. Recognize and mitigate power imbalances inherent in our healthcare system, and c. Institutional accountability, where the institution has to model and support these Describe a healthcare experience when you worked with a patient, family, community, or population much different from yourself and where your beliefs and values differed in some way. Describe how you applied these three principles of cultural humility, or what, if anything, you would do differently if faced with a similar situation.Show more
