Mental Health Nursing Personal Statement Essay

Mental health nursing is a career that requires commitment, patience and empathy, which could be rewarding in helping people. Even though this branch of nursing is very demanding and challenging, I feel the satisfaction is great in helping the most vulnerable in society such as the mentally ill, therefore willing to embark on this career. I would like to study mental health nursing because I feel it will lead me directly to one of the most emotionally fulfilling career as well as giving me the opportunity to help people's mental well-being and their physical health. It would give me the opportunity to study something that involves both academic and practical studies, which I feel would suit me best. As part of my degree in Public health I
For me, the opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of the mentally ill and their families shows true personal and professional fulfilment. At the university, I did not abandon my job as a career. I joined both studies and care for part time working with adults with dementia and those with learning disability. That was when my desire to get a post graduate degree in mental health nursing developed. With work experience, I was a care assistant from 2007 till 2012. I have worked in residential homes as a full-time care assistant. My job was at dementia set up and some of my duties as a carer were administering medication to residents, supporting residents to wash and dress, assisting residents to bed and checking on them during the night as requested. General housekeeping, including laundry and placing orders and receiving service users medications, supplies were some of my duties. Updating service users care plans, booking and escorting service users for GP’s appointment and communicating between their families, however, ensuring confidentiality were some of my responsibilities as a