Personal Statement: A Career As A Nursing Home Assistant

After enrolling into UNIV class, I have understood the value of taking time to reflect upon myself, understand who I am, and what are my values. A lot of my interests are connected to organizing, data management, information systems, understanding culture of diverse population, teamwork, helping community, researching health findings, and working outdoors. According to these interest, over time I have considered Administrative assistant, Nursing home administrator, Data management, and community coordinator as occupations for my future career. My interest with there occupations are related directly to my past experiences. When I had an opportunity of working with older adults at Buckingham Nursing home, I was very happy to go to work everyday and cover two sifts in a row sometimes. I liked working with the patients at Buckingham and the environment was very pleasing to me. I felt accomplished to be helping our seniors with daily living activities including feeding them
twice a day. When I worked at the Nursing home, I was able to interact with Nurses and other staff members who were very supportive and inspiring to work with. However, I knew I didn’t want to be dealing with blood works as doctors and other nurses do. I believe as I was able to enjoy the clinical environment, I would want to work with administrative staff and be around doctors and nurses. I think my Nursing home work experience have encouraged me to choose career in healthcare. Moreover, I also had an opportunity of volunteering at a hospital where I was helping customers navigating through the building. I enjoyed being in that hospital setting and taking care of small part of management activities. I have taken few biology and other health care related classes due to which I find myself familiar with a lot of healthcare terms.
Even though I’m not quiet sure if I would like to manage data as a part of my career job, I am sure this is one of the career job I would be good at. Also, currently while I am working at Oak Street Health as an Intern, I have witness my clinical administrator’s responsibilities. I think I would definitely consider administrative assistance job as my career to begin with. I believe if I start from administrative assistant job, I can be very good at taking responsibilities as a healthcare administrator. In the long run I plan to serve in an underserved community where people have less access to healthcare. I want to help poor kids as well as women who don’t have access to education and healthcare service. As I want to serve population with poor economic backgrounds in the long run, I think my decision in healthcare field can help me to achieve my
dreams.
In conclusion, I want to be a healthcare leader where I can make a difference in the society by managing administrative works very well. I want to serve population within clinical setting where I can work mostly with older adults. I am also interested in hearing about our seniors’ life story and getting inspired to work hard and be a responsible person. I believe my work, volunteer, and internship experiences have encouraged me to adopt career as a health care worker.