Nursing: Personal Narrative

Introduction

I started my Nursing career in India and then I came to the United States and became an RN. I entered Nursing with the thinking that Nursing is a profession that will always allow me to have a job and all my patients will get better. However, from my experiences I understood that Nursing is more than just giving medications, and it requires clinical competence, cultural sensitivity, ethics, caring for others, and life-long learning about others and the evolving field of medicine. Florence Nightingale once said:

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, It requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter’s or sculptor’s work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God’s spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts. (Masters, 2005 (p.186)

Working with new graduate nurses has instilled in me the goal to share my knowledge and expertise with others and to teach others the art of nursing. My short-term goals are to complete the Master’s program by the summer of 2014. My second goal is to secure a job as a nurse educator at a hospital and work with my nurse manager to provide program like in-service to the hospital staff and students. I would like to incorporate my education from State University’s master’s program to assist hospital staff and patients in their learning process, with the use of new technology to facilitate the learning and understanding.

My long-term goal is to obtain experience and proficiency as a Nurse educator to become a nursing educator instructor. As a Nursing educator instructor I will be able to build new educators in Graduate programs for th...

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...es mentioned above provide the skills and proficiencies of a novice nurse educator. In my journey as an educator, I feel that developing complete competencies in all areas is a life long process, and I will work to substantiate excellence in these competencies.

Reference

Halstead, J. A. (2007). Nurse educator competencies: Creating an evidence-based practice for nurse educators. National League for Nursing.

Masters, K.(Ed.). (2005). Role Development in Professional Nursing Practice (p. 186). Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

National League for Nursing. (2005a). Core competencies of nurse educators©

with task statements. Retrieved from http://www.nln.org/profdev/corecompetencies.pdf

Poindexter K.(2013). Novice Nurse Educator Entry-Level

Competency to Teach: A National Study. J Nurs Educ. 52(10) 559-566. doi: 10.3928/01484834-20130913-04