After being a nurse for 7 years and changing my career is a big transition. I decided to change my career choice after being involved with patients in mental health facilities, nursing homes, schools and home health. Having the experience of the one –on- one patient and nurse relationship was best for me and my heart desire. While being an agency nurse, I was given the opportunity to work at this mental institution with young girls and women. I was given the opportunity to provide nursing service to females who was molested, battered, abused and would perform self-harm to themselves, in this process was when I decided to become a clinical mental health counselor. In my reflection paper, I will discuss my counseling strengths and limitations, …show more content…
When it requires limitations as a counselor, it’s very important to have client sign informed consent, confidentiality statement, and while being the counselor my concern is to assist the client with their struggles, not to tell them how to live their lives. Limitations is very important, because I do not want to step over the boundaries of my clients that will allow them to loose trust in me and give up on themselves.
Second of all, sometimes I may be under stress being that I am a single mother of two children, having a daughter away at college, working several part-time jobs and studying as a graduate student. When stress arise in my life, the first thing that I do is pray and calm down. I understand in life that trial and tribulations will develop in my life. I hope that my personal matters will not interfere with my performance while training to be a counselor. When I realize that my life and issue are out of my control I have to exclude that particular person, people and problems out of my life. God as not allowed me to come this far to be distracted. Therefore; I will stay focus, continue to believe in God and have faith that I will be
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...t the insecurities and to loving ourselves just the way we are. Once we learn to adapt that peoples judgments shouldn’t affect our life, this will automatically make our lives a positive and worthwhile place.
The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate my reflection and understanding in the Role of the Mental Health Nurse in an episode of care supporting and promoting the recovery of service users. According to the National institute for Mental Health (2004) recovery is a process to restore something or return to a state of wellness, is an achievement of quality of life that is acceptable to the person (Ryan 2012).
Nursing is a collaborative job that encompasses promoting health and well-being, preventing illness and treating the ill and dying. The nursing profession is not for everyone; it takes strong-willed individuals that understand the significance of putting other people’s lives in their hands. Most nurses come to work not knowing how their shift will turn out; as they must take on treating, saving, and caring for patients they possibly just met. As a nurse, I believe that passion for this job should never be lost, patience must be attained and exercised, and that there should always be a strong positive mental attitude on and off the job. These three beliefs have shaped my decision to become a nurse, what health and illness mean to
To make haste to be kind to all others, understanding that life is too short to be vengeful or malicious, too soon ended to be petty or unkind. For the rest of my life, this very special day, God help me. To keep reminding myself that in order to harvest more ears of corn in the fall, I must plant more kernels in the spring. To understand that life always rewards me on the terms that I establish, and if I never perform or deliver more than that for which I am paid, never will I have reason to demand or expect and additional gold. To always deliver more than is expected of me, whether at work, at play, or at home. To labor with enthusiasm and l9ove, no matter what the task at hand may be, realizing that if I cannot secure happiness out of my work I will never know what real happiness is.
Nursing is not only a career, but a way to give back to the community by enhancing and maintaining the health of other individuals. Throughout my clinical experiences last year, I witnessed kindness and selflessness among many nurses that have impacted and helped shape my future career choices and life immensely. Throughout this semester, I will assess myself on my nursing skills and will constantly try to strengthen my assessments, communication, clinical judgment and patient safety skills using the Creighton Competency Evaluation Instrument (CCEI, 2014). I believe that my experiences at Mayo will enabled me to find several of my strengths that I will obtained throughout the semester along with finding my weaknesses that I can work on for next semester. I am
...es that we might have, and accept who we are. The everyday hardships of life tempt us to do many things, but controlling our temptations and guilt is the key to making us successful in society.
Developing confidence, and competence is a challenge faced by novice nurses (Morrell & Ridgway, 2014). Over the course of my nursing degree developing, and maintaining confidence in my clinical practice has always been a personal challenge. During my preceptorship placement, I have the opportunity to continue to cultivate my confidence, and prepare to begin my practice as an independent graduate nurse. In the reflection, I will discuss how I have gradually become a confident practitioner through my experiences in my clinical placement, and especially those in my preceptorship placement.
Reflection is the thing that we bring to an experience is fundamental to our understanding of what happens. This is impacted by our past, our future and our present world-sees. In nursing, it reflects the attitude, personality, decision-making and ethics when dealing with sick people. A Cherima (2007) point out that reflection journal is a useful tool for promoting reflection and learning process for nurses. In this assignment, I am going to reflect on one of the clinical situations that had happened during my clinical placement at the surgical orthopedic ward. The incident that I am going to reflect is maintaining patient’s safety in preventing risk of fall during the hospitalization. It is important to prevent the patient from fall because it may further impact the patient’s wellbeing. For instance, the patient might experience fractures from falls. Edwards et al. (2013) claim the risk of fall history is linked with higher incidence of fracture. I choose this issue because I want to explore the importance of patient safety in relation to
... me that I must be extremely diligent in recognizing the role that I am to fulfill in a community in order that I can help others thrive in their own roles. I am responsible for reducing conflict, not creating more.
The following essay is a reflective paper on an event that I encountered as a student nurse during my first clinical placement in my first year of study. The event took place in a long term facility. This reflection is about the patient whom I will call Mrs. D. to protect her confidentiality. Throughout this essay I will be using LEARN model of reflection. I have decided to reflect on the event described in this essay since I believe that it highlights the need for nurses to have effective vital signs ‘assessment skills especially when treating older patients with complex medical diagnoses.
Regardless of the specialty, the main focus of a nurse includes assisting doctors in treating patients and providing clinical and emotional support to both patients and ancillary staff. With the role of administrative nursing supervisor comes additional responsibilities and administrative roles, such as staffing, organizing, prioritizing, and ultimately ensuring safe and quality patient care.
Change has been a big part of my career for the past five years. Initially, I changed my work from a hospital setting to an office setting to accommodate my inability to perform fully as an RN. Next, I had to leave my position completely, due to my surgeries and the year recovery period. However, because of my inability to work right now, I have decided to change my nursing pathway for now. Fortunately, being a nurse gives you a multitude of opportunities, therefore, I have other opportunity to work from home e.g., telehealth, medical transcription, case management (Childers, n.d.), as well as a medical coder, which I have been offered to do. They may not be the best jobs for a nurse, but, it gives me the opportunity to continue
Another thing to do is for me to know my purpose in life. Since I already knew it, and I already realized what I really wanted in life, it is important for me to have a lot of faith in God and have self-confidence inside.