Community (someone you know) I interviewed one of my best friends from high school because we grew up in similar cultures and I wanted to see how her views aligned with mine. She’s also in a nursing program so I thought that would make it interesting. 1. Where were you born? Where were your parents born? How long have you/they lived in this country? a. She was born in Holland Michigan b. Her mom was born in Holland MI as well, and her dad was born in Muskegon MI c. They’ve all lived in the United States their whole lives 2. What ethnic groups do you and your family identify with? a. Her and her family identify as Caucasian with a Dutch background 3. Who is/are your main support person/persons? Why? a. She said that her main support was …show more content…
What is your primary language? Do you feel comfortable speaking/understanding another language? Explain. a. Her primary language is English. She said that although she learned some Spanish in high school, she isn’t comfortable speaking it because she thinks that she will say something incorrectly and that it would be embarrassing. 5. What is your religion and explain why it is important to you? a. Her religion is Christian. She explained that it is important to her to feel like there is a reason for her life. And that so when times are tough she knows that her suffering will end and that she can get through it. It is also important for her to surround herself with other believers so that they can help her to strengthen her faith and also be extra support. 6. Describe your food preferences and why they are important to you. a. After asking this question she kind of laughed. She said that she knows that she’s pretty closed off when it comes to trying new foods. She said she is pretty picky and likes to stick to what she knows she likes, including favorites such as pizza, sandwiches, and chicken. 7. What are your beliefs about holidays, celebration, and …show more content…
She loves holiday celebrations. For most holidays, her family gets together at her house or at her grandma’s house. She thinks they are important because she loves seeing all her cousins and relatives. b. She says that she has been blessed to not have to go to many funerals in her lifetime yet, but the ones that she has been to have been mostly for supporting the family while they’re suffering and to remember the person’s life. 8. What are your beliefs about health and wellness? a. She states that she knows the importance of taking care of her body and eating right and exercising but has trouble with it. Recently, she has started exercising every once in a while, but she says that she has trouble eating healthy foods because she doesn’t like the taste of them. 9. How do you take care of yourself to maintain your health? a. She has recently started exercising to try to stay healthy. 10. What are your beliefs about taking care of others? The elderly? The young? a. “Caring for others is extremely important!” The reason she is going into nursing instead of becoming a doctor is that nurses get to spend more time caring for the patients and really getting to know them
Presented issues such as lack of nursing opportunities for nursing graduates, lack of respect for the nursing profession and nurses being viewed as a threat by doctors continues to be of an existence today. As a nurse, I feel that it is of high importance to highlight these presented issues from the film not only because they were the most outstanding to me but because the nursing profession needs more
Discuss the questions that would be important to include when interviewing a patient with this issue. The PQRST mnemonic guide can be used for a complete abdominal pain history is as follows: P3 – Positional, palliating, and provoking factors; Q – Quality; R3 – Region, radiation, referral; S – Severity; T3 – Temporal factors (time and mode of onset, progression, and previous episodes). This mnemonic will help to ensure a thorough history is obtained by asking question such as;
There are few jobs in today’s world that are essential to our society and being a nurse is one of them. Diane Marks Nurse Clinician of Pediatric Allergy at the Children’s Hospital in Winnipeg Manitoba granted me the privilege of sitting down to discuss her career . Through this interview I was able to gain perspective on how being a pediatric nurse encompasses more than what is written in the job description. It is more than just needles and antibiotics, but many times it means being a mother, a sister, a friend, a councillor, and many other roles in the patient’s life.
Given away by my name, I am not an American; I was born and raised in Saigon, Vietnam - a dynamic city with over nine million people squeezed into roughly the size of south Bay Area. It was towards the end of my third year of high school that my family immigrated to the U.S. Leaving my hometown behind, at seventeen, I started a new chapter of my life.
For the first part of the interview I really focused how Emily got to where she is and why she wanted to pursue nursing. My first question entailed, “What made you want to become a nurse?”
She also buys healthy snacks such as fruit, low fat cheese, skim milk, and yogurt. However, she also buys cookies and chips. These items are not good snack foods. She realizes that she needs to change some of the items that she buys so that she is not contributing to unhealthy eating habits.... ...
[A]lthough the days are busy and the workload is always growing, there are still those special moments when someone says or does something and you know you’ve made a difference in someone’s life. That’s why I became a nurse.” —Diane McKenty
Ever since I was a little girl, my motivation to pursue a career in the medical field was evident. While other children my age watched Cartoon Network, I found more value in shows like ‘Trauma: Life in the ER’ and ‘A Baby Story.’ It wasn’t until high school that I decided I would become a nurse, specifically. I cannot say that I had a revelation or a particular experience that swayed my decision. However, ever since I began pursuing the career of nursing, I discover each and every subsequent day that it is what I was put on this earth to do.
The interview began with the student asking the nurse to define what is nursing in her own words, the nurse stated that nursing is taking care of another human being holistically, which is not just the body, but taking care of the person as a whole, taking his or her emotional, mental and spiritual well-being into consideration in order to provide the best care possible. It’s also having the ability to assess, identify the problem, communicate and implement. Being a nurse is a calling and it is part of the person.
Learning about what the different nutrients do for the human body have motivated Susanne to incorporate those nutrients into her diet. Susanne used to be someone that chose food to lose weight. Now, she is trying to make smart food choices to be healthy. She now understands that it is more important to be healthy than to be skinny. Susanne has an elevated risk for diabetes due to family history. Because this is a factor she cannot change, she understands her food choices and exercise are more important for her daily health maintenance than it might be for someone
Nutrition and health habits consist of eating a healthy, well balanced diet. She rarely eats fast food, and never eats sweets. She generally tries to maintain a nutritious diet because she wants to succeed in tennis.
“Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken’, said Myrtle Aydelott (Hammarskjold, 2000). Nurses have our patients trust with their lives every day. These patients have needs that must be understood and met, whether; physical, psychological, or emotional. Nurses must provide nonjudgmental care to those in need, regardless of culture, religion, lifestyle choices, financial status, or hues of the human race. To quote Jean Watson, nursing theorist, “I am here to care for others, regardless of where they came from” (Hammarskjold, 2000). I believe that the nursing profession chose me because I have always had a calling to help those in need. Nursing
She said “the three things I value about my profession are there is so much room to grow and further your education in nursing, even if you are not thanked on a daily basis the profession gives you so much self-satisfaction, and it gives you the opportunity to be there for someone in the most vulnerable times of their lives.” I think with nursing you can go on many different paths with what you want to do with your degree. There are many options for specializing. I also think being thanked is not the only way to feel rewarded. Being there for someone in there most vulnerable time is something that I feel like many people will not understand. Sometimes I feel like a nurse is the best part of a patient’s day especially if they have no one else.
Once someone figures out that helping others is their end goal, the choice of where in the vast galaxy called medicine that one wants to stumble into. It is a must for someone to have a genuine pull towards helping others no matter what medical issue a patient may have. Nursing allows for one on one patient interaction, more than a doctor would have. While a doctor can save a life by performing surgery, a nurse can and often has to, make life or death decisions in sundry situations. Becoming a nurse requires the love of school, primarily because a majority of the first few years after making this career choice is spent there.
Nursing can be seen as a “gross” profession and nurses can be told they do all the dirty work, but that’s not necessarily true. Nursing is hands and you get a one on one experience with patients. You create unbreakable bonds, and people remember you for the good work you do and how charismatic you are. Being a nurse is not an easy profession. It has physical exercise and can come with some emotional baggage. Being a nurse is helps those who needs that extra push and support to make a phone call to his or her parents and explain to those closest why a certain treatment plan is the best approach to getting healthier. Not only are nurses essentially good for patients and their families, but also for the doctors. Doctors rely on nurses to get crucial information about the patients’ conditions (Barnet). A nurse named Katie Zehring once said, “ Nursing is a career in which not all goals are attainable, not all successes are measurable, and not all outcomes are predictable, but each small step towards these achievements brings new hope and healing.” Nursing is a lifestyle not just a job, and it is very rewarding to know that you created hope for the hopeless and helped those who needed