I got this nursing sweater when I was in grade eleven, I toured the nursing labs and the nursing facilities and I knew that nursing was the pathway for me. This was the start of my nursing story, being able to hear a nursing professor talk about their nursing story and the education program at Trent. We got to see the nursing mannequins that are used for the lab and they were cool and interesting and I knew from that moment that this is what I wanted to study.
This was an extremely important milestone in my nursing story. When I saw this email I was incredibly revealed that not only to the school I turned the year prior to accept my application but also received a scholarship. It was amazing to know that all my hard work was recognized and it made my dreams of studying to become a nurse come true.
My grandmother passed January of 2024, she was brought into the hospital very early into the morning due to a brain aneurysm rupturing and causing her passing. The nurses and the whole hospital that we were there handled my whole family and my grandmother with such grace and kindness and that is the type of nurse i want to be. They were very understanding, patient and apologetic and I want to be able to have these skills in my practice. Making sure that my patients and families are supported and feel safe.
I worked at a family doctors office for two years as a secretary. I got to see nurses, doctors and my coworkers in the healthcare field and confirmed that being a nurse is what I wanted to do. Being able to work with nurses and doctors allowed me to see a part of the healthcare pathway that I didn’t know before. It taught me that nurses are hard workers and I noticed that nurses have more hands-on care with patients than doctors in some cases. Which is why I wanted to be a nurse.