I never thought that I would become a nurse one day when I was a kid. When I was very young, every time I caught a cold, I would get a fever. My mother would take me to the hospital to see the doctor immediately. No matter how many times I told the doctor that I don’t want an injection, he would still prescribe it. After I realized I couldn’t change doctor’s mind, I started to fight with the nurse. When the nurse was ready to give me a shot, I started struggling, shaking and screaming. As a result, they had to restrain me in order to finish their job. In my deep heart, a voice was shouting out: “I hate you, nurse!” Whenever I smelled the alcohol, it reminded me of the hospital, and the injection, and the nurse. Nursing was the last career choice …show more content…
But the fear of the nurse was still there. About 5 years ago, I came to America to start a new life. I spent a long period of time thinking about my career, and I also started to volunteer in some places, the Emergency Department of New York Downtown Hospital is one of the places I volunteered. In ER, I saw different patient having different diseases. Some patients were really sick, and they were suffering from the illness and waiting for their destinies coming. Some patients even died before they brought into ER. I remember a particular morning. At 9 o’clock, I went to one patient’s bedside, and we had a good chat. He looked pretty healthy to me, and I thought he would be discharged soon. Around 11 o’clock, he died with the cardiac crisis in front of me. I was shocked and very sad. I really wished I could do something for him, and I wanted to save his life. After months of doing volunteer work, I decided to be a RN, so I would be able to help a lot of people, and my life would be meaningful and have a …show more content…
Here are some problems I observed very often. Problem one: nursing aid doesn’t cooperate with nurse. When nurse asks nursing assistant to perform some tasks, nursing assistant doesn’t take it seriously, such as they make up the vital sign for patient, and they don’t clean patient. A fake vital sign might hide patient’s acute problem, and a dirty patient might have more risk to get infection than a clean patient. Problem two: nurse doesn’t cooperate with nurse. Some nurses don’t like to help other people in order to avoid trouble; however, they don’t realize if they don’t offer help, they won’t receive help from other people. Some accidents are still happening in the hospital due to lack of cooperation, like a nurse has to ambulate a patient by herself, and patient falls with the nurse. If an entire nursing team lacks cooperation, the patient is the one to suffer. Problem three: people just work for the money and do not care for the patient in the hospital. I think people will get lazy if they just work for
I wanted to be a Nurse after an incident happen with my son, Jordan. He was nine months old at the time. I went and laid him on the floor in Melisa's, my daughter, room so they could play. Jordan was playing with blocks and Melisa was trying to get him to play with her dolls.The phone rang. It was my nightly call from my husband grandmother, we called her Probe. Probe called to talk about all of her neighbor and family member and what they had been doing that day, hence the name Probe! After about ten minutes on the phone with Probe, Melisa came and said something was wrong with Jordan. So I got off the phone with Probe and went into Melisa's room. Something definitely was wrong with Jordan. He was very flaccid when I picked him up. His lips were turning blue and his eyes were rolling up in his head. I asked my daughter if he had swallowed anything and she said no. Thinking to myself that he could have, I began to swipe the inside of his mouth for anything unusual. Nothing was found, but he began to clinch down on my finger and wouldn’t let go. My first instinct was to call my Mom. Her and my Dad called the ambulance and we were off to the hospital. After the exam and many test, we found out that Jordan had Febrile Seizures related to an ear infection. These chronic ear infections and seizures continued with seizure medication, antibiotics and antihistamines until Jordan was 5 years old.
According to the American Nurses Association, nursing is defined as “the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations” (American Nurses Association, 2016). Nurses have many jobs and responsibilities and wear many different hats. Nurses can perform at many different levels depending on their scope of practice which is defined by the board of nursing in one’s state of residence. It is important as nurses to understand and follow
My personal advanced practice nurse philosophy is to provide the best care to my patients primarily by staying up to date on current practices. Staying up to date allows for the patient to receive care based on evidence. Through assessing, diagnosing, managing and treating patients I plan to take on all functions of a nurse practitioner to the best of my ability. Advocating and educating patients are two words that I will live by as a practitioner. I plan to be inspiring to my patients by developing a therapeutic relationship with each patient that is centered on trust and understanding. I want to be a practitioner for families that helps people to understand the change that needs to take place in their lives in order to live the healthiest
This is a research paper conducted on the very highly pursuited field of nursing. Nursing is a profession in the healthcare field that focuses or assisting others. Not to mention, nurses are heroes because of the many lives they save every day. This is an example that one doesn’t need tights or a cape to be a hero. Never the less, there are many reasons one may want to become nurse. Some of those reasons may be for personal gain or the greater good. However, before becoming a nurse one needs to be educated about educational requirements, licenses and certifications, projected salaries, and the projected job outlook for the next five – ten years for nursing. This research paper will provide thorough information on those four major aspects of
Pearson (2013) clarifies “clinical decision making is essential to every aspect of care delivered to a patient” (p. 214). It is the ability to blend information and make decisions that will later be implemented in the situation. Evidence-based decision making involves choosing from a variety of possibilities and combining the knowledge through research and the scientific evaluation of one’s practice. The purpose of this paper is to analyze my decision of administering ativan by advocating for the patient and anticipating her change prior to confirming signs; which provided a therapeutic response.
...ch like life in general, is full of uncertainty, as well as endless possibilities. As long as nursing continues to grow, there is no limit to the achievements that can be accomplished in the profession, for not only the individual patients, but also for the healthcare industry as a whole. Nurses must remember, that as they move forward, they will continue to break down barriers and stake their claim as a necessity in healthcare. Nurses must also hold tight to the teachings of their predecessors. The future of nursing holds great advances in healthcare and technology innovation; but, most importantly, the future of nursing needs to be saturated with nurses that are willing to put their heart and soul into healing the human spirit. The future of nursing must bring with it the teachings of the past, while providing their patients with the most qualified nursing care.
At this point, this writer is slightly unsure of which pathway she may take, once she has completed her studies; the writer is currently contemplating education, health population, or a career as a practitioner. So, this writer had the privilege of interviewing two individuals, one practitioner, and one population health coach. Each gave this writer interesting, sometimes similar, perspectives of being an advanced practice nurse.
A myriad of challenges are faced in healthcare today. From over-crowding and long waiting lists to staff shortages which have knock on effects resulting in inadequate skills mix and unacceptable nurse-patient ratios. An aging population, high birth rates and an increase in chronic diseases also puts pressure on the healthcare system. The nursing role has had to evolve in response to changing societal needs and the challenges in the healthcare system today. (McCurry et al. 2009). This can bring additional challenges to nurses’ professional identity. ??
My journey to finally realizing of becoming a student in this RN Executive Program has been a long journey filled with excitement and disappointing periods. I 've started this quest in the Summer of 2015 and here I am, two years later, starting my first class in the program, Nursing 301.
The first key message that is discussed is that nurses should practice to the fullest extent of their education and training. Most of the nurses that are in practice are registered nurses. Advanced nurse practitioners are nurses that hold a master’s or doctoral degree and include nurse midwifes, clinical nurse specialists, nurse practitioners, and nurse anesthetists and consist of about two hundred and fifty thousand of the nurses currently working today. Advanced practice nurses are limited to what
Why I want to be a nurse? I have asked myself this question numerous times, and have come up with a variety of answers. I think that being a nurse just embodies the characteristics that I have innately had and characterizes the person I am now. Nursing is more than a profession to me; it encompasses my life in every aspect. Nursing challenges me, nothing is ever exactly the same each day. There are so many opportunities in nursing and so many ways to challenge myself and learn new things.
Initially I thought that nursing was a career that can be taught. I felt nursing was only science and once you had mastered the science of nursing you could become a competent nurse. Since fall my view of the profession has changed drastically, I am starting to realize and appreciate the uniqueness of each quality that develops the art of nursing. For instance, I thought nursing knowledge was limited, once you have graduated nursing school you would have gained all the knowledge necessary. I now realize that knowledge does not only come from books but also from experience. With accountability, it is important for me to be able to admit to my mistakes. When I admit to my mistakes I grow as a nurse and as a person as I am able to learn from my mistakes. When being an advocate for my patients, I must not allow my own biases to interfere. I have to acknowledge my own biases so that I do not neglect care for my patients or make biased assumptions about patients rather than advocating for their needs. I always thought that sympathy is a universal value in nursing but rather empathy is. As a nurse I must understand the patient’s situation in order to be efficient rather than being sensitive to their situation. I also realize that it is very important for nurses to be adaptable as they face different and unique situations every day. I have concluded that a nurse is never done
There are several nurses that have established themselves successfully in the work I am pursuing. The work mainly involves care management, client teaching and patient advocacy. Care management focuses on ensuring that the care that various health care providers offer is cohesive to meet the patients’ needs. Client teaching deals with enabling patient gain knowledge about the medications and health. Patient advocacy is involved with protecting and advancing patients’ rights.
Before this I was 16 and had no idea where I wanted to go in my life. With graduation approaching the pressure to decide on a career was getting greater and greater. I always felt in my heart that I needed to do something that would have a positive impact on other people and not just myself, and that I needed to use what God has blessed me with to help people. Being in that environment and around all those sick children made me feel something that I had never felt before. I felt a sense of compassion, inspiration, and a desire to change someone's life by loving and caring for them when they can’t care for themselves, like the nurses did for those patients. Little
Nursing is a medical profession that involves the care and management of patients majorly in the hospital setting. This paper seeks to illustrate the fact that nursing is both a science and an art. Nursing is a science because it involves evidence based practice, education of the public, lifelong learning for the nurse and administrative roles that are allocated to the nurses. Nursing is also an art because nurses depend on intuition, have the capacity to promote positive change, are understanding and culturally sensitive.