After completing a career project in the sixth grade I have not been able to see myself working in a career other than nursing As early as I can remember I was interested in books of the human body and having my mom tell me her experiences as a certified nursing assistant I knew I wanted a career involved with helping people My fascination with the human body became visible around the age of five My mom says that I was curious as to what the real name of our body parts were called such as the kneecap being the patella and our chest bone as the sternum Although my mother was only a certified nursing assistant for six years this was a significant part of my reasoning to become a nurse By the age of seven I had memorized the twenty major bones in the skeletal system by reading my mom's old anatomy textbooks For several years I thought my nursing career goal was to become a registered nurse After doing much research in my spare time I realized I do not want to stop there My overall goal in nursing is to obtain my Doctor of Nursing Practice in anesthesia to become a certified registered nurse anesthetist