I have multiple goals set for myself for this project. the people that I am shadowing have each set goals for me also. The overall goal I have set is to, at the end of this project, know an abundant amount more about nursing and nurses themselves than I did before beginning this project. I aim to know more about what I plan to do with my life in reference to which field want to go into, whether it still be trauma or it be another specialty. Another goal that I have for this project is to go above and beyond what is set for me to do for this project, blowing everyone else away with what God has helped me to accomplish. My last goal for this project is to find a way to use what I have learned to serve other people, because that is not only what nursing is all about, but also what we are called to do as Christians. Before this project even began, nursing had a huge impact on my life.
Many of the women in my family are nurses of some sort, so nursing is not some unfamiliar thing to me. Not only that, but I also get hurt often, considering the number of sports that I have played that put stress on my body. I have had to have countless MRIs, x-rays, and surgeries due to injuries or sickness. Throughout all these experiences, there were nurses that helped the procedure to go much more smoothly. I have been on the receiving side of a nurse’s care; I know how good it feels to have someone that put all their effort into caring for you and making sure that you are healthy. After experiencing this, I have decided that I want to be on the giving side of the care of a nurse. I know that already this project has impacted my life by helping me to learn how hard nurses have worked to get nursing to where it is now and how hard nurses have to work every day to fulfill the many duties required of them. While doing my final project, I believe that I will also be greatly affected because I will be able to actually serve other people; kind of like a …show more content…
nurse. After I complete this project and my senior year, I plan on attending Kennesaw State University while studying nursing. After that, I plan to take the certification test to become a Licensed Registered Nurse. After getting my Bachelor’s of Nursing in Science, I plan to immediately get my Master’s and specialize in trauma. I eventually plan to have the title of Nurse Practitioner, then maybe moving around to different fields. I would get a lot of experience that way, and could still be the head of my department. The Steps to becoming a Registered Nurse and Nurse Practitioner are “very difficult, but are very worth it”. (Leigh Ann Barbaree) I want to be a nurse because I love to serve people.
Many of the people that know me know that I love serving people, and that I could serve people all day without anything given to me in return. I believe I have been called to go into the nursing profession, so I plan to follow that calling. Not only are there personal reasons for me wanting to be a nurse, but there is also an unending great need for nurses in our nation that needs to be quenched. (TOPNEWS) “With the population rising and with illegals crossing the border, there has begun a large demand for nurses and doctors. This has caused a shortage in nurses because nurses are loaded down with too many hours and not enough staff. We need to promote the profession of nursing and how important nurses are to the community.” (Leigh Ann Barbaree) Nursing is an extraordinary profession benefitting humanity every day, and it is exactly what I am here to
do. Nursing has a long, hard fought history. Over the years, nursing has changed and become much more advanced. What has not changed over the years is the fact that nursing is an act of care and service for those who need it. Nursing is a worthy and important career to go into, which is what I plan to do during and after my project.
I have always had a passion for nursing. As a child, I watched my mother getting up early, putting her scrubs on and headed out the door for a 12 hour shift. She was always content, and at ease to go for a long shift and even overtime at times. I love the fact that after work, she would always come home, satisfied with the day no matter how hard it was for her. She would sit and tell my brothers and sisters how she enjoyed the conversations that she had with her patients and what impact she had on their lives that day. Listening to these stories as a child, I knew that I wanted to become a nurse and listening to the same stories and helping people, making their day feel better. I wanted to follow my mom’s footsteps. At the end of a long shift, it is a rewarding profession, knowing that I am saving people’s lives, making them comfortable when they are near of dying, advocate and teaching them. As nurses, we care for patients through illness, injury, aging, health. We also promote health, prevent diseases and teaching the community; that’s what I love about nursing. I believe that this is the right profession for me because I have all the qualities that a nurse should possess when
at the orphanage, I was able to help build a sidewalk and a garage for
Through the traumatic experience of my father’s illness, a positive and optimistic perspective of commitment to nursing career evolved. My journey of becoming a nurse and commitment of shining a bright light on another individual life has been my life long goal. I moved to the United States in early 1980 and with God help and guidance, I followed the nursing career and promised to make a small difference. During my first years as a nursing student, I took a part-time volunteered position as a candy-stripe and a part-time position as a nurse aid in a community hospital to provide relief and support to hospital staffs. I rocked and read poems for babies in the nursery, as a nurse aid I assist nurses with vital signs, blood pressures, fill ice pitchers in patient rooms, runs specimens to labs and sit with patients in the room and feed patients. I still volunteer in my hospital oncology department and the underserved and homeless clinics with several Emory physicians at the Good Samaritan Health Center, Mercy Care and National AIDS Education and Services for Minorities (NAESM) all in Fulton County, Ga, because it gave me fulfillment and appreciative of life
I could begin by saying that I choose nursing to help people, but then I would be following behind the other million people who say they chose nursing for the same reason. Even though I want to help people, I chose nursing because I wanted to inspire, to teach, to learn, and to make an impact on my patients, their families and also in society. I will not say nursing was always my first choice, but I ultimately choose nursing because nurses not only care, but they also volunteer despite their busy schedules, are constantly learning, and are always giving back to the community. The cliché for choosing a career in health care is a need to help people, but I wanted to do so much more than just help people. I want to make an impact on someone’s life. A lot of what many people don’t understand is that nurses aren’t just there to help the sick, but the title of nurse comes with an array of jobs ranging anywhere from caregiver to educator. I choose nursing because my philosophy, my values, and my beliefs, guided me to a profession in which
My interest in nursing is fairly new; I had not explored the potential that a nursing career can offer. I became familiar with nursing professionally after becoming a Certified Nursing Assistant. While working with patients, side-by-side with nurses I became enamored with the potential of a nursing career. I now have a rewarding career working as a Medical-Surgical nurse on a Medical University Hospital floor that specializes in Transplant, Nephrology and Urology. Nursing encompasses the ideologies that fuel my passion, upon further research, and conversation with coworkers I realize my career goal of Family Nurse Practitioner; affording me the privilege to care for others by reaching out to various
A nurse is often defined as “a person who cares for the sick.” Though this is true, nurse’s qualifications surpass this simple definition. Nurses have the abilities to deal with all different kinds of people in all different kinds of states. They treat the elderly, the temporarily ill, newborns, adults, the blind, the permanently ill, and the psychotic. They give care to people through grieving, birth, dying, illness, crying, pain, and loss. I want to be a member of the nursing field so I can assist others during their time of need and make an impact in their lives.
I frequently find myself writing at work. I work at Intermountain Medical Center as a Patient Care Tech and as a Health Unit Coordinator. I often am writing for myself, writing to my coworkers, other departments and also to my boss. I write and chart in the computer and send a lot of E-mails and type on a lot of different documents. I have noticed that as I write the longer I have been in this current job the more comfortable I am with colleagues and boss. The writing situation really does have an influence on the texts I produce.
Whether it's assisting a doctor during surgery or helping a patient out of bed, nurses are accustomed to giving of themselves for the good of others. In, fact sometimes a nurse's response to the needs of those around them seems so natural that people don't realize just how much they do. There are several ways that nurses make an impact on the profession just by doing their every day job of serving, inspiring, volunteering, healing, educating, assisting, supporting and encouraging. Nurses can also impact the profession by remaining current an up to date on technology, political issues and advancing their
I wanted to talk to someone that had experience in nursing and interacting with kids, so on May 2 I asked my mom, Christy Kuller, a few questions. My mom is the charge nurse on the Wellness floor of Bridgewater Retirement Community, but she went to college to become a registered nurse. She worked at a daycare called Kid’s Harbor in Harrisonburg before she became a nurse so she has a lot of experience with kids. She said she really wishes that she could get a nursing job where she gets to work with kids. She also told me that when she was going to college to become a nurse she did clinicals, which is where she goes to specific places and experiences a certain job. She did clinicals at the pediatric unit of Augusta Health and Rockingham Memorial
As I was growing up in Utah, I had a fascination of becoming a nurse that wore a white hat and helped in surgery like the characters in the hit T.V. show M*A*S*H*. I was fascinated with their abilities to help the wounded in the Korean War. I would stay up past our household’s normal bed time hour of 9 P.M. to watch the half hour episode with my mom about 2-3 times a week. Not only was the thought of becoming a nurse so appealing, but the thought of being in a foreign country during a war, helping people who were hurt, was very compelling to me. Mary T. Sarnecky, Ph.D, stated that over the three year course of the U.S.A.s involvement in the war, 1950-1953, the number of Army Nurse Corps officers involved in the action of the Korean War estimated
Although pursuing a career as a nurse was not something I had always dreamed of becoming when I was a kid, it is something that I not only aspire to become today, but am on my way towards achieving. It took shadowing various health professionals and volunteering for me to realize that becoming a nurse was the position within the healthcare field that I was most passionate for.
This past summer, I was employed as a camp counselor for people with numerous disabilities ranging from the age of eight to seventy years old. Also, I am currently employed as a tutor for college students; I primarily tutor in the science curriculum. Because of these backgrounds, I practice essential characteristics that are advantageous to nursing, such as patience, kindness, adaptive styles along with other infinite traits. In addition, I have volunteered at a local hospital observing medical professions like radiologists and technicians. However, the career I was immensely influenced by were the nurses employed on the Med/surg floor as well as the N.I.C.U. Through this participation, I was able to receive constructive feedback from experienced
Have you ever wondered about what Registered Nurses have to go through to be able to do the things they do? Nurses go through a lot of schooling, criticism, and scrutinizing to be able to care for patients from pediatrics to geriatrics. According to Brittney Wilson RN,BSN, “Nursing is great for so many reasons, but there is one reason that means more than any poll results, amount of money, or job security: nurses make a difference”. Nursing requires a lot of patience, compassion and good communication to impact a life. Nurses are the forefront of health care teams, they assess and monitor patients to determine the actions needed to attain and preserve their well being. For an example, emergency room nurses intake and assess patients to divide
During my time at school, I was presented the wonderful opportunity with some of my classmates to attend a trip to an Indigenous community in Far North Queensland, to help serve, teach the children and provide basic care. This life-changing trip has fuelled my desire to help people, whether it is in an overseas context or in my community. As a result, I decided to take a step into being more involved in the wider school community as a youth leader. This consisted of developing leadership skills and a safe environment where other adolescents can connect with one another. Furthermore, it revealed to me that whilst my goal was to help others, I learnt that in a bidirectional partnership it requires the attributes of being humble and the eagerness
“Cough!” “Cough!” “Oh, I hope you are not getting sick,” says my mother. “Maybe we should go to the doctor’s office to make sure.” The doctor’s office was a familiar place for me while growing up. I was constantly dealing with sickness as a toddler. The first person I would usually come in contact with at the doctor’s office would be the nurse. They would ask me how I was doing and why I came in. I always thought it was neat how the nurse could arrive with my blood pressure and temperature. I would think to myself about how I wish I could be them.