I chose my subject because this person has taught me just about everything I need to know to be an effective nurse. She is one of the most caring, compassionate, and knowledgeable person I know. With the level of knowledge that this person has it is impressive at how she can balance her knowledge with bringing it down to the patients level while maintaining that compassionate care. This person was my preceptor for my nurse externship this summer. I have also worked with her during my licensed nursing assistant role for about four years prior to this. She is the nurse that you can go up to with anything at all she will help you with anything and if she cannot, she will help you find a way to get what you need done. This person was also a charge nurse and her leadership qualities are some that I aspire to emulate. She exudes confidence, knowledge, and calm all in one. She also helps those around her succeed and is not an overbearing leader. She is there if you need her but she also promotes autonomy and the importance of allowing everyone to feel important. 

This person just recently received her Nurse Practitioners license this past January. She is someone that I hope I can live up to everything that she has taught me. I have already learned that she is able to demonstrate calm in stressful situations as well as knowledge when being able to communicate with patients in a more understandable way. I hope to be able to grow into being the calm and poised nurse that she has helped shape me to be. I aspire to be as knowledgeable as her because her patients have expressed how comfortable they feel during her care because of how thorough she is. Throughout the summer she helped me develop the confidence in myself that I can do this and that I have the tools to be successful.