DNP Nursing Anesthesia Personal Statement

DNP Nursing Anesthesia Personal Statement

Earning my master’s degree in nursing through the ____ University School of Nursing’s MDE program in 2017, trained me for leadership in nursing.  Now I ask for admission to the DNP program in Nurse Anesthesia at ____ to finish my education in my chosen specialty and earn the terminal degree in my field at ____, completing my graduate education in nursing where it began. The School of Nursing at ____ is the institution that I have come to know and love, see as the pinnacle of nursing education, and where I would be able to best excel in a doctoral program learning from some of the finest nursing faculty in the world.

In today’s increasingly complex and rapidly evolving healthcare system, a doctoral degree is now required to certify one’s full professional mastery of one’s chosen field of study. I see a nurse with a DNP degree as having completed the top level of advanced education, with the most advanced skill set development, specialized knowledge, and optimal performance and efficacy, having earned the professional respect of patients and colleagues alike. A DNP-prepared nurse is a well-equipped leader and practitioner with a solid foundation in evidence-based literature and research, confident to stand and deliver when facing the intricacies and challenges of the healthcare care industry and the dynamic world we live in today.

Graduating with a DNP, especially from ____, certifies that one is well-versed in the clinical and didactic capabilities that are required for teaching nursing to new generations of professionals as I hope to do at some point after earning my DNP. As a nurse originally from Africa, it would be an honor to return to ____ to again contribute to the diversity of your program. I am inspired and enabled by ____’s emphasis on global health, nursing mission, and inclusivity in the healthcare community. I appreciate how ____ is a leader in nursing education with a reputation for producing some of the most distinguished clinicians and researchers worldwide. This is why____ was my first choice for a master’s program, which transformed me into an outstanding nurse and prepared me well for the extreme rigor of Nurse Anesthesia at the doctoral level at ____, along with 5 years in the ICU. I have acquired resilience, critical thinking, utmost attention to detail, titration of drips, escalation and de-escalation care, empathy, excellent communication and listening, and humility in the ICU, working alongside renowned cardiothoracic surgeons, anesthesiologists, and CRNA leaders.

At NYU, I precepted nursing students and newly arrived nurses, served as my unit’s Nursing Practice Quality Council member, and served as a Geriatric Resource Person. In my present position at NYP____ CTICU, I have precepted new nurses and served as a POD leader and member of the CTICU’s R4, SAC, Patient Experience, and Quality Committees. I am a member of the hospital’s CLABSI team championing the CLABSI Prevention Bundle and staff education. l confidently and successfully conducted a PI project that standardized our blood culture drawing practice in CTICU Columbia NYP to help decrease the blood culture contamination rate. I trained about 30 CTICU RNs to be blood culture champions who are now drawing blood cultures in CTICU at ____ NYP. I have presented at our annual cardiac symposium, unit poster presentations, and in multi-disciplinary meetings.

I appreciate how being a leader comes with added responsibility and I pride myself in assuming that responsibility and striving for a perfect execution of any task assigned to me. In this way, I have earned the trust of my nursing colleagues who generally assign patients of high acuity to me, often on ventricular devices with crashing ECMOs. 

Thank you for considering my application for the DNP in Nurse Anesthesia at ____.

DNP Nursing Anesthesia Personal Statement