My involvement in health care stems from my deep desire to touch people in the most caring of ways. I subscribe to the notion that the most important thing in life is HEALTH. My life journey has led me to medicine and ultimately to Cardiothiracic surgery as a specialty. It was quite befitting as a career, since I relish the ability to impact the most sacred domain of people lives their health. For a cardiac surgeon that gratification was immediate and thrilling. As I moved along my career path, as an engaged physician, I saw greater opportunities to impact more lives as an executive in the healthcare industry. I seized on the opportunity and became Chief Clinical Officer and Chief Medical Officer. I am already seeing the impact that such a
In the past twenty years I have experienced different aspects of life that have shaped me into who I am today. I have had personal experiences, moments with friends, and indirect encounters. Each story explained below goes into detail of what occurred how it has shaped me into the student I am and future teacher I am becoming. Experiences throughout life affect the way we teach and the opinions that we can potentially transfer over to our future students.
My interest in nursing first stemed when my grandfather was diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer. Hospice had come into their home, and I was amazed at how they coped with their job. The people who took care of the person I loved the most, were compassionate and caring. Most of all they helped all of us through a time of need. During that time I realized helping people in whatever way I could in the medical field, was the career for me. My grandmother was also a nurse. She would tell me stories of when she worked in different hospitals. When I heard all of her experiences, I wanted to make memories of my own in the nursing field. This past summer, I took a CNA course at Valley Falls/Holton, Kansas. When I enrolled in this course, I thought
Throughout my life, many factors have influenced and shaped me into the young woman I am today. I am an active member of many cultures, and continue to learn and adopt numerous values, traditions, and morals from each. There are certain cultures people are born into, and others that are chosen by people at various stages of their life. Over the span of my nineteen years of life, I have been put into as well as voluntarily joined a combination of cultures which have instilled in me both positive and negative qualities. Cultures I was born into include the female culture, the Caucasian American culture, and my unique family culture. As for those which I have elected to become a member of include things such as the soccer culture, the Concordia
Since I was very young, I knew my calling in life was to be a nurse. When I was eight years old my favorite place to be was the Assisted Living Facility up the street from where I grew up. I was fascinated watching the nurses taking care of the residents as if they were family. I would follow the nurses around for hours and was excited when they would give me little jobs to do like going to get gloves or playing BINGO with the residents. That was just the beginning of when I knew what I was called to do.
As a nurse, I feel that at many times I am placed in a situation, where I need to use my leadership skills in order to provide efficient care by managing the limited time. According to CNO guideline, leadership is a process of influencing people to achieve common goals. It requires self-awareness and commitment towards profession, ability to delegate, manage time and to communicate effectively within the health care professionals.
Over the course of my life, several themes have emerged that I believe make me well suited for a career in healthcare. These experiences, that I thought to be burdens on my life, instead placed emphasis on my desire to improve medical care in underserved areas. Pursuing a career of such importance takes pride and dedication, yet cannot be accomplished without a critical combination of technical skills balanced with people skills. My passion for helping others has grown immensely over the years and which may seem like just an occupation to others, I firmly believe is my calling. It is this passion that has sparked my interest to become a servant leader to others. My desire is to bring about change, by empowering those who are not financially able and by building a strong foundation for those in need.
For the duration of this clinical experiences my intentions are to gain experience in leadership and develop those skills by establishing a partnership with R.K. She is currently teaching a leadership development course which I would like to develop a partnership with her and complete a community project.
A career in medicine is one of the most prestigious careers to have not only in the United States, but in the world. A career that allows you to help mankind and help people survive in a world filled with diseases and harmful bacteria must be a true blessing. Enriching lives of others would not only benefit them, but would bring a deeper meaning into my life. If I had the chance to choose any career I wanted, why not choose a career that will introduce me to new patients and cases that I had to critically think to find the best care to help them recover? Why not choose a career with job stability and the ability to specialize in anything I wanted and be one of the people in charge to make the big decisions? My motivation in medicine started
Day two: on arrival to 3N at 530 am our clinical instructor handed as the RN patient report to see if anything had changed from yesterday. My second day was less stressful than my first because I had an idea of what is required. I was assigned to stay the same patient. I was more comfortable providing patient care and medication administration without feeling much pressure because I got to review my patient’s medication over the night before my second day. On my second I was also a little bit more settled than my first day, I was able to spend more time caring for my patient. I had completed safety check on my patient and witnessed the dose of insulin and heparin with another RN nurse before administering, double checking medication and
This weekend I was paired up with a nurse from the floating pull. It was a very interesting experience. For the first time since the beginning of the semester I can say that I was faced with a lot of critical thinking situations. I spend the day running around reminding my nurse of things he forgot or task we had to finish. It was already 2:00 pm and I still hadn’t performed an assessment on a patient, at this point I remember what Mrs. McAdams had said before “ we are in the hospital to help but our main priority is to learn and practice our skills” so I made the critical-thinking decision to tell my nurse that I needed to at least complete an assessment and since we were about to discharged a patient I could performed a final assessment on him before going home. I performed my assessment, had time to document and helped my nurse with the discharged. This weekend was a very challenging clinical for me but I also learned a lot. I learned to managed my time better, be proactive in my clinical experience and I also found my voice.
This summer, I had contacted a family friend of mine who was a neuroscientist in Switzerland, asking him if he would be able to host a visit for me in order to tour several neuroscience labs there. He had agreed, but my parents were unable to come, so I was left to travel by myself for the first time. While this family friend of mine was able to host my stay, it was my responsibility to contact individual labs and inquire about tours and guided education opportunities. While visiting, I was sure to ask many questions about the current research and discuss other literature I had read with the scientists working there, including Dr.Lamy from the University of Fribourg, and Dr.Stuellet, who is doing schizophrenia research at the University of
All my experiences have made me the strong woman that I am today. I learn from my experiences in life rather good or bad and rather I have done them or they happened to me. Everything in life is an experience and to me it is viewed as a never ending learning process. My most recent experience and challenge I had to face was with my previous employer HealthSpan, a health care facility and health insurance company.
This week I began my three-year journey to become an advance practice nurse with a doctoral degree the terminal degree in nursing practice. I was very exciting as I left my home for my one-hour drive to the school campus in the pouring rain. Many song have been written about it never raining in southern California but this was not so. On arrival at the campus, the staff was there at the entrance to direct the new nervous students to their assigned classroom. Like myself my new classmate were eager to embark on this journey, yet apprehensive of the unknown. Many of us during the three days’ emersion, questioned ourselves on whether we had made the right decision in going back to school at this level. We contemplated on the hours of commitment
My interest in the nursing field started from a personal experience. When I was 14 I went to a hospital. I was scared and alone in my room, the nurse noticed that I was petrified she talked to me. She reassured me that I was not alone, this brought me great comfort. For the short time I was there, nurses were the ones who were with me for most of the day. I found comfort in the nurses and I knew I could trust them. I learned many things from being there but one thing that stuck with me are the faces of the nurses. I learned a lot from them and I want to help others the way they helped me. As a nurse I would have unlimited amount of opportunities to imprint what I have learned on others. The thing that mainly draws me into this career is that
Call bells ringing, patients screaming, machines beeping, this sounds like a typical day. The patient in room 612 screaming “Nurse!” as I walk to the room, I answered “Hello, Ms. Smith, what can I do for you?” Ms. Smith answered, “Can you move that tray closer to my bed?” thirty minutes passed by and Ms. Smith is on the call bell again, “Nurse! I need to pee!” I walked in and assisted Ms. Smith onto her commode, and whilst doing so, another patient in room 610 called for my assistance, “Nurse! Hurry up! I need my pain medicine!!” As I waited for Ms. Smith on the commode, I yelled across the hall to Mrs Boyle,“ I’ll be there in five minutes!” Lets rewind a bit, you’re probably wondering how I got to this point. ( maybe change this part?)