My Experience In Nursing

Wayne (2014), quoted that “People often think that nursing is just an easier alternative to becoming a doctor. When can we escape from this? Probably not, and that’s beyond our control. But this irrational assumption has proved nothing through the years. It only motivated nurses from showing the world their worth and how much of a difference nursing makes”. I also loved when she said that one of the most exciting jobs in the world is nursing and that we should wear the title with pride and that we, nurses, are unique. I totally agree with her, what nurses do is not easy. One of my favorite quotes is “Nurses don’t wait until October to celebrate Make a difference Day - they make a difference EVERY DAY!” (Nurseslabs). As a nurse we put a lot of knowledge, time, effort, and love in caring for our patients making sure that we give our 100 % sometimes even more.
This paper is about my experience not just in nursing but also in life that is applicable in the five ways of knowing, which are Personal, Empirical, Esthetics, Ethical , and Personal Knowing by Carper and Emancipator by Chin and Kramer and are defined by Brugger & Madison (2017) as:
Personal - refers to the knowledge we have of ourselves and what we have seen and experienced. This type of knowledge comes to us through the process of observation, reflection, and self-actualization.

I have witnessed her take blood pressures using her stethoscope and sphygmomanometer, give injections, dress wounds and some other things that I was too young to comprehend. She does it very passionately to our family when we need someone to attend to our health needs. She tries to answer most health-related questions around family gatherings or sometimes relatives will come and visit her at home to ask for her thoughts about health concerns they have been experiencing. She had become our “family nurse” and she did it with so much compassion. What my aunt did stayed in my