Personal Narrative: A Career In Nursing

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After three months of volunteering at my local hospital’s emergency department, I had one specific experience that led me to a career in nursing. One day, as I was rushing around the emergency department easing the nerves of frantic patients, I walked back to the triage desk when I heard a patient complain of chest pain. The RN sitting at the desk took the patient’s heart rate and pulse oxygen. While the pulse oxygen was normal, the patient had a heart rate of 180. Assuming the patient was stressed out, the RN instructed the patient to wait in the waiting room. By this point, I had been volunteering in the department long enough to know that the triage nurse would order an EKG for someone with those symptoms. I desperately wanted to tell the

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