Who I Become A Nurse

Who I Am There are people who dream to one day become a nurse then there are the ones who take action and make their dream a reality. I am a person who decided to take action and fulfill my lifelong dream. I had a childhood that most people will never imagine going through. Until about age seven when my grandparents rescued me and my life took a positive turn. Even though, I had a rough start to life it only made me stronger and pushed me harder to become successful in life. I am now an older version of the little girl who use to tell her grandparents that someday she was going to go to nursing school to become a labor and delivery nurse. I am now currently fulling my dreams as a nursing student here at The University of Southern Mississippi

According to the American Nursing Association, “Nursing is 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). Nursing as I see it is the act using professional knowledge to diagnosis a medical condition, communication to comfort the patient and family in time of need, and judgment to provide the correct treatment for the patient’s best recovery. Nursing exist because there is so many different bacteria’s and diseases that have been found throughout history. The need for nursing allows for the curing and prevention of these life-threating experiences. I am practicing nursing because I believe that my destiny in life is to help those that cannot help themselves. I want to be able to make a difference in someone’s life just by doing what I love to do. Nursing is more than just an occupation it is a new experience every time you get a new patient. Nursing is unpredictable and allows life to be exciting. Nursing throughout the years has developed and is described differently throughout the world, but nursing in perspective is trying to accomplish the same

Kathleen Masters defines these concepts in her book Role Development as, “The person receiving the nursing, the environment within which the person exists, the health-illness continuum within which the person falls at the time of the interaction with the nurse, and, finally, nursing actions themselves” (Masters, 2016, p. 50). Each individual looks at these concepts differently and has their own description in their head as to what a healthcare setting should portray. The person aspect for me is considered the center of attention, which in a nursing setting should be the patient, but it can also include the family members. The patient is the one who is receiving the care and must rely on the other parts of the domains. For example, the patient must rely on the nurse in order to receive the proper medications in order increase their health. The health component for me is the influence state of the patient’s comfort and happiness. This is what makes the patient feel comfortable in order to give their trust to the nurse in order to achieve the goal of increasing their wellness and knowledge about their health. For example, if a patient were to say no to a medical procedure that would save his or her life, the nurse should give the patient further information as to why they should have the surgery and the risks of not having the surgery to increase their