Self Reflection For Nursing

Please bring to class, a typed, 12 font, single spaced, self-reflection of your progress as a freshman student working towards entering the nursing program (or intended major). Reflection should include: an explanation of why you want to be an RN/MD (or not), a critical analysis of your current grades, a very specific descriptive plan on how you plan to succeed in the prerequisite courses.

Nursing wasn't always something I thought about doing as years ago I had very little knowledge about a nurse and what a nurse does. In the beginning my job aspiration was to be a veterinarian, then slowing realizing that wasn't the job for me as you had to put down animals, then went off to believe being a doctor was the fit for me since I mostly went

Then in 2002 my younger cousin got cancer and was transferred to the hospital and was unfortunately there for two years but is not very healthy. After visiting in the hospital my aspirations changed to nursing as I saw the interaction between the people helping between the doctors, nurses and other people i no longer wanted to be a doctor. After watching the doctor came in checked my cousin out wrote a prescription then left, as if he was just a number, I didn't want to think of my patients as numbers, I wanted to see my patients as human to watch them get better and have me be on their team. This realization helped me decide that nursing was the best fit for me as they were the most helpful in helping cure my cousin as they treated him as a human and treated me and my family with great

I got good grades A's and Bs but it wasn't an easy process as my first grade in cell and molec with a very low grade, and i think that was because when i was in highschool i rarely studied as i had the type of mind that as long as i paid attention in class and wrote down some notes i always did very well on test. This was very different in cell and molec it was a very lecture based rather than having class activities reading as other ways to learn the information. I struggled with new way of learning for a while it helped a little bit that i took lab as i learn better by doing or seeing so by doing experiments that related to what we were learning was very helpful which improved my grade, in addition having the SI sessions improved my grade to because we went over things that would be specific to the test. I also believe that cell and molec was the hardest class that in the rest of my classes they had review sheet and did more to help us learn such as videos, worksheets, but the online supplementary assignments started to improve my grade. As time went on i realized it was easier to print the slides take notes on the slides then take short shorts to summary the necessary information then create a quizlet. This way I wasn't has flustered trying to write all the notes down and wasn't really paying attention to what he was saying, which was sometimes