STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

Statement of Purpose: Master in Nursing

Statement of Purpose: Master in Nursing

I am one of many Americans profoundly affected by the events of 9/11. My own response to this tragedy was to launch upon an intense re- evaluation of my priorities, moral, economic, personal, at the deepest or most intense level, concerning what could make my life the most worth living.

The introduction of diploma-based nursing education forcefully continued the cultural connection between nursing work and care of the sick and disabled. The introduction of trained nursing in asylums forms a salient example. Institutional care for the mentally ill became firmly established in the industrializing world in the nineteenth century. However, despite initial optimism about the improvement new institutions would bring, asylums soon grew into overcrowded, lower-class institutions for indigent insane and their social reputation was very poor.

Currently, nurses consider enhancing the integration of people with disabilities in the community and improving their quality of life essential tasks. As part of their academic education, nurses have gained knowledge and expertise in research and policy development. Nursing research is now a fundamental component of nursing practice. Over the past decades, nurses have made substantial contributions to knowledge of chronic illness and disability, supporting people with disabilities in improving their health and living conditions. Both nurses, as providers, and persons with chronic illnesses and disabilities, as consumers, experience the unrelenting reluctance of society at large to value the public need of basic care. As a nursing shortage once again is looming around the world, largely as a result of the profound effects of cost-containment and restructuring of health care during the 1990s, which eliminated thousands of nursing jobs, the persistent difficulty as much as the profound necessity of finding a balance in evaluating the cost and value of nursing care remains a prominent ...