Personal Narrative: My Experience As A Registered Nurse

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

Hospital and another clinical in the neonatal department of the University of Virginia. She said she had to shadow a nurse during these clinicals and she witnessed the nurses administer medication, start IV’s and educated parents on how to care for their children and cope with their illnesses. She said that she wanted to get a job in pediatrics, but when she was looking for jobs out of college there were none available in the area.