Nursing School Personal Statement

rowrowyourboat · Aug 10, 2015

I am in the same predicament. Another issue is I am applying to 5 schools and they all have different essay questions..ayayya!

The fear that I might not get in because of my personal statement and essay is not helping with my writer's block.

I just wanted to say good luck. We can do it:)

OCNRN63, RN · Aug 10, 2015

I would suggest asking the moderators to move this to the Students section and having it moved into a forum for prospective students or pre-nursing students. You'll get more suggestions from people in your situation than in General Nursing.

FloatRN19 · Aug 10, 2015

In mine I told them if the didn't admit me they would continue to see my application each year until they did.

rowrowyourboat · Aug 10, 2015

In mine I told them if the didn't admit me they would continue to see my application each year until they did.

Did you really? I would be scared to do this but it makes so much sense. It shows the seriousness, commitment and dedication the applicant has.

Did you apply to only one school?

roser13, ASN, RN · Aug 10, 2015

Just start. Start writing your flow of thoughts. Edit after the fact.

None of us can help you write your personal statement.

Trauma Columnist · Aug 11, 2015

Moved to pre-nursing forum.

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Aug 11, 2015

Never assume that what you write first is your final submission. This is going to take some time and effort.

Brainstorm on a large piece of paper. Just start writing stuff down-- nouns, verbs, adjectives. Eventually you will find some coherent sentence fragments. let them make you think about how to use them.

Start writing at the end of your essay.

Then go back and lead your reader to the end.

Then put it away for two days, reread, revise. repeat.

Share it with someone who knows you well and ask for an unvarnished critical opinion. Show it to your old English teacher for grammar/usage/spelling errors.

If you are willing to put this much work into it at the beginning, you'll have a better product than most of the ones we see posted here. :)

direw0lf, BSN · Aug 12, 2015

I get writers block a lot. I found out that I write better when I stop trying to perfect it first and just write not caring about how it sounds yet but put it down. Then go over it to make those same ideas just written better. I received higher grades on papers when I did it that way instead of trying to make it perfect in my head first then put that down.

One teacher told me to read my papers out loud 10 times next time before I submit them too:yes:

Anyway I wrote very personal from the heart in my essay and tried to say how I have grown. I don't know if that's a good or bad idea.

Farawyn · Aug 12, 2015

Wow, NYIT has a nursing school? That's right in my neck of the woods. I had no idea.

Good luck!

violeta4you · Sep 27, 2015

Good luck. I applied there too. Do u know if its hard to get in into their nursing program?

SamCas · Oct 18, 2016

In mine I told them if the didn't admit me they would continue to see my application each year until they did.

Hi! I'm working on my personal statement this year and I was so nervous about it. But then I found your post and it made me feel so much better, I don't know why. I don't know if I will be brave enough to actually write a thing like this but, anyway, thanks!

Also, maybe someone here can help with proofreading of my ps and give me a feedback? English isn't my native language and I'm nervous about making a bad impression. Alternative for me is paying a service like this and I don't want to do it. I'd give you million hugs if I could!