Admission Essay

College of Nursing





Introduction

Talking about the university, University of Iowa is a big state school in Iowa City. It is home to over 17 700 students and approximately 9512 students. U of Iowa is made of several undergraduate colleges including schools of English, Speech Pathology and Audiology, science, music, political science and care. The medical faculty is particularly strong, and U Iowa has one of the largest research hospitals in the nation. The university offers many, many majors in many different concentrations, but some of the most popular among students include majors in psychology, English, communications, art and biology. Students have a wide range of interests, which is directly reflected in the wide range of majors that are most popular.

About Nursing

Nursing may be the most familiar health professional group in the world, second only to physicians. Nurses far outnumber all other groups of health workers, with an estimated 12 million nurses working worldwide. Women constitute the overwhelming majority of nurses, with estimates ranging from 89 to 97 percent in countries of the global north. According to the 2003 American Nurses Association Social Policy Statement, “nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and population.”

To achieve this range of activities, nurses operate in four domains: clinical or bedside practice (the work most commonly associated with nursing in the public imagination), nursing management, nursing education, and nursing research. Nurses work in a variety of hospital-based and community settings and in many capacities: in clinics as nurse practitioners, in colleges and universities as faculty educators and researchers, in government as policy makers, in schools as public health nurses, in hospitals as administrators and clinical nurse specialists, and in the home caring for a child with a disability or a senior recovering from a stroke.

Nurses are highly educated, skilled practitioners of the art and science of nursing who contribute to individual and community health and well being, the domestic economy, and the reproduction of community values. Despite this, nurses continue to be variously misrepresented in the popular media and on the Internet as angels of mercy, doctors' handmaidens, glorified waitresses, and “naughty girls.” Nursing as care work and individual and collective identity illustrate well the gendered, classed, and raced meanings of women's lives. The question why I selected nursing as my profession can be found by following explanations.

Traits, abilities and beliefs

I love children and I am interested in working with them as a nurse. I plan on working in pediatrics or neonatal. I have very responsible and optimistic. I have always wanted to be a nurse since I was a little girl. Being a premature baby myself, and having a lot of health issues throughout my years I have gained a lot of respect for the people who work in the medical field.

Examples of past experiences

My mother has always wanted to ...