Sophomore program outcomes reflection essay

A big part of nursing is reflection. Now that my sophomore year is nearly over, I can see how much I have grown and how much knowledge I received. Throughout this semester I have been faced with many thrilling experiences and frightening experiences. I have learned a lot through my gerontology clinical, pharmacology and fundamentals courses. Now that I am in clinical it seems that everything is coming together. Practicing in fundamentals and then practice on a real person has been very beneficial. Once I have performed a skill and tested out I’ve notice I am likely to remember how to do the skill again in practice. In this paper I am going to review some of the main objectives I felt were beneficial to me and will always be an important part of nursing practice.
One objective that I have learned throughout my nursing courses this semester is to translate scholarship into practice. I was so excited that I was able to apply what I learned in my current and previous nursing courses and use it for clinical this semester. Personally, I feel clinical is the missing piece to the puzzle. For example this objective applies for Foundations because we practice how to give medication and we got checked off for it. Finally we applied it into practice at clinical by passing medications numerous of times. Not only does this objective apply for foundations but it also applies to pharmacology and gerontology. Now I know how to give medications, I know the different reactions and side effects and I know how it will specifically react to the Gerontological population.
In the beginning of clinical I was very nervous and didn’t know what to expect. Now looking back I can see how much I have grown. I was nervous just doing patient care and I had...

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...ons. Reflecting back on my semester gave me even more reasons why I want to become a nursing. I am proud to say during my nursing career this semester I receive knowledge I can use to help others. The reason I want to be a nurse is because it is full of adventure and thrills of its own, expressive and physical not to mention the widespread coverage of knowledge about humanity and life being. I want to be helpful in other people lives; I want to help people through their bad and good times. I know sometimes there is nothing we can do as nurses to help a patient during the most difficult times in their lives but if I can at least put a smile on that person face while they are struggling with their illness, makes me smile. I’ve personally saw how the elderly was treated during my CNA class and I love that I was able to make a difference during my Gerontology clinical.