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Registered Nurse Scholarship Essay

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I am currently an employee of Wintersong Nursing Village in Knox, Indiana. My mother is a registered nurse and she also works in assisted care facilities all across my state. Since I was a little girl, my mother would always take me to work with her and teach me that the elderly deserve to be treated with respect and dignity. Because of my passion for assisting and and talking to the elderly, I have decided to pursue a career in Speech Language Pathology and work permanently in a long term care facility. I know that aging matters because elderly people are wise, they're thankful and they're caring, and everyone ages. I remember being in preschool when my mother first took me to her work place. I thought it was stuffy and I was kind …show more content…

The thing that sets assisted care facilities apart from the rest is the appreciation you get from doing the smallest tasks. As I stated before, I am employed currently as a Hostess at Wintersong Nursing Village. I have experienced first hand how far doing a task so little can mean so much to a resident. For example, before dinner time it is my job to assist all the individuals in wheelchairs down to the dinning room. This seems like a very simple task that doesn't take much time or effort on my part but to them it means everything. Some of our residents are too weak or are incapable of rolling themselves anywhere. Every time I perform this task, the resident will usually touch my hand and genuinely thank me. I love to see their big smile on there face as I laugh and joke around with them. Some of the residents have become like family to me. They all seem to care about the staffers as well. I have been asked on many occasions if I was doing okay and if i needed anything because they are willing to help. I love my job and I feel so lucky to be given the opportunity to experience all of these things before entering as a speech therapist in about six years.Aging really matters to me because aging is a life process that will happen to all of us. I personally believe that all teenagers should be

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