The Impact of My Nursing Instructor by Morgan

The Impact of My Nursing Instructor by Morgan - March 2023 Scholarship Essay

Morgan Stringer
Varsity Tutors
15 March 2023

The Impact of My Nursing Instructor

As a child, I’ve always wanted to work in healthcare. My biggest goal was to become a doctor. Carrying around my Little Tikes doctor kit made the younger me feel so professional even though I may have had only three of the medical tools I needed. In kindergarten, my dreams of being a doctor were published in the newspaper. I never had anyone in my youth to inspire me to become a doctor. It came naturally. As I got older, I start leaning more towards nursing than a doctor. When I started my freshman year of high school, I joined a healthcare class and club called Health Occupations Students of America. In this class, my nursing instructor was the person who had a positive impact on my education in the healthcare field and an impact on me.
My instructor is very knowledgeable about nursing. She knows everything about it like the back of her hand. Also, she would tell us that nursing is not easy but doable. Seeing how she approached medical emergencies and patient understanding was different from what I see in hospitals. Current nurses are aggravated easily and don’t uphold proper care.
Moreover, my nursing instructor has had an impact on my education for four years of my life. Her enthusiasm to teach us and show us new things excites me every day. She made everything interesting even though, for me, it’s hard to find anything in the healthcare field uninteresting. I was well off in my anatomy class in high school due to the preparation she gave us to pass her class. My nursing instructor even trained me to become a Certified Clinical Medical Assistant. I was able to pass a rigorous test and obtain my certification at the end of my senior year in high school. Now I can work in hospitals and clinics. I am so grateful for her and all the effort and hard work she invested in my education.
Furthermore, my instructor impacts my life personally by believing in me more than I did myself. Feeling like a slow learner, I downed myself a lot. Even though I doubted myself, I studied hard to keep up and be the student I knew I wanted to be. Every hands-on assessment I took it as seriously as I could. I observed everything she did carefully to ensure I got it right when it was my turn. She noticed everything I did. In my freshman year of high school, she told me I was going to be an amazing nurse because of my passion. In my junior year of high school, she sat back and watch me obtain someone’s blood pressure and later told me how serious she sees me taking this and how proud she was of me because that was one of the harder assessments to do for beginners. She continued to tell me that I will be great at nursing and how happy she was to see me choosing this line of work. From that day forward, self-doubt still came but it never overcame the faith she has in me and the words she spoke to me. Thinking about her and what she told me inspires me every day. Now I am in college and majoring in nursing with a 3.8 GPA while having excited nursing advisors ready to have me in their program by the summer of 2024.
Lastly, I can’t express how grateful I am for my nursing instructor. Her passion for nursing sparked my nursing journey. She gave me the foundation I need to be successful in nursing while giving me motivation and self-hope. Now, I take on every challenge that life throws at me as a new opportunity to become better than I was yesterday and to get rid of doubt, all thanks to my instructor.