When I grow up...(I love that I still say that)...I want to be a nurse, and a mother. I am 22 years old and I'm still working on both. When I was younger, I wanted to be a singer, just like the Spice Girls. Then my goal changed to become a hair dresser, with my own salon in my house. Somewhere between 10 and 11 years old, I found out I wanted to a Nurse. I think I must have watched a movie or figured out that my Uncle Kelly was a nurse. He must have told me what his job entailed and I wanted to be a nurse too. I was hooked and tried to find out the fastest way to get that RN certificate. I became a CNA in my junior year of high school, and took some college credit courses to get a bit ahead when I finally got to college. When I started college, I enrolled as a nursing major and it went downhill from there. I took some theater classes, some art classes, some dance classes and I got completely side tracked. All of the sudden I had all of these fun talents that I immensely enjoyed cultivating! I ended up changing my major to Photography. I really loved it (and still do). It made me feel talented and with all the weddings and high schoolers and babies being born in Utah, I wanted in on that monopoly! I know people who make great money doing just one wedding a week. I wanted a job like that, so I changed my whole path in life and bought a very nice camera and all the gadgets that go along with it. Such as: Photoshop, Bridge, Lightroom, and that extremely expensive lenses. I honestly know I was trying to run away from Nursing. Not only was I intimidated by the competition, but I did not feel special or unique anymore. Everyone (it seems) in Utah wants to do nursing because they all have the same goal as me...(Go figure.) Many girls/women in Utah want to be nurses so they can also be mothers. So unfortunately for me, the "boat" is awfully crowded. I graduated with an Associate degree from Utah Valley University (with no emphasis because I had such a weir amount of random credits.)I thought I was done with school, ready to get a job and have a baby while my husband went to Law school. We moved to Arizona, and after months of interviews, I got a job at an Optometrists office. I worked there for 2.5 months and realized that I wanted to be a Nurse! I didn't want to settle for a random associate degree. I started asking around and found out that the "boat" here is very much less crowded and saturated. So I signed up for classes at a community college that feeds into Arizona State University (ASU) and began in January of 2012. I just finished that first semester with a 4.0 in 15 credits...That has not happened since 8th grade! I think I have a fighting chance to do this nursing thing. I believe in myself and know now that I really do want to do it, and I am not being pressured by the staggering number of nursing majors in Utah. I love taking care of people, and I love the medication/IV part of nursing. I have been a Certified Nursing Assistant for 5 years now and I'm really getting tired of being bottom of the medical totem pole, the "Scum." (in reference to the scum in the card game, Scum...if you haven't played it...play it.) I am ready for more responsibility and new tasks, and the next step is to get into nursing school, to get a BSN, and become a Registered Nurse. I will stop at nothing to accomplish this goal and now i know that if you really want something, you can get it if you put the right amount of heart, soul, and effort into it. ALWAYS pursue your dreams.
-Kayla
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