Nursing: My Personal And Professional Life In Nursing

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It takes a while to get to know yourself before you are able to care for another person. Studying oneself is challenging because it allows reflection of one’s inner self, exposing your strengths, weaknesses, vulnerabilities, interests, habits, defenses, and values. On the same note, it allows a person to be more familiar with the challenges he or she faces, how they might respond to certain situations, and offers an opportunity for learning and growth. Throughout this paper, I will discuss the various pieces of myself. I will consider my personal and professional life as a nurse, what I might employ as my mental model, which may limit my frame of thinking, how it has shaped me so far in my education, and how I relate to others. Narrative Story I was working on the surgical floor with a client named Jack who was undergoing treatment with antibiotics for a gastrointestinal infection. Jack was a middle-aged man, was known to be short with conversations, and went outside to smoke every hour. When I first chose my client, I knew I was going to struggle with his personality. This was because I enjoy building a relationship, and engaging in conversation about my client’s specific challenges that they are facing. With Jack, he …show more content…

My family has always been a big part of my life, and I have never strayed far from them. With this closeness and open, trusting environment my family and I have dealt with many things together. One specific challenge was related to when my grandmother developed dementia. Throughout this experience my family and I did not participate in any formal religious practices, nor do we use a specific religion in our daily lives. Therefore, I felt the disease process brought my family closer together, even though it was difficult at times. My viewpoint and beliefs around dementia were altered due to the vast, diminishing effects it had on my grandmother, and

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