Reflective Essay: A Career As A Nurse

The nursing career is a very challenging one. People who take this course have a fighting spirit and strong enough since, their work is not easy. . A lot of sacrifice and efforts that they need in order to fulfill their responsibilities as a nurse.They have to be ready of the obstacles that comes their way. It is hard to deal with different kinds of personality that they encountered daily from their work. They must have patience in taking care of their patients,in order that they could establish a good nurse-patient relationship.

The first challenge that we face is how to give the best service to our patients. We need to take care of our patients the best as we could, by doing it, they will be happy that they are cared for. Not only our clients, their families, relatives and friends will be satisfied of the care we give to them too.

Like for example, even we have a lot of patients, we are still trying to manage everything for the sake of our patients who really needs our care. When patients were discharged,we have a soothed feeling that we were able to accomplish the whole nursing process towards attaining a successful outcome specifically, the patient’s recovery from their diseases.

Secondly, the ratio of the nurses to the patients.

It is very common that one to two nurses handled twenty-five patients in the ward. This is a big challenge to us. Taking care of this ratio is very hard especially when we assigned to the medical-surgical unit and we have different cases coming from surgery. There is always have an order to monitor the vital signs every fifteen minutes for an hour. I have experienced that even going for my personal necessity,I could not do it due to the tasks that we need to do first for our patients. Patients safety is our first priority.

Furthermore, nurses must have patience. If they have no patience they could not work longer in this job, There are many patients that keep on complaining even they are already cared. They do not understand the side of the nurses. They are mad to us if we could not attend to them right away. For example, when they want to get something and they want the nurse to get the thing soon and the nurse have another patient which is more priority to be done first. In this case, nurses will have to remain quiet to maintain the trust and confidence that lies between

them.

Lastly, it pertains to the schedule of our duties.This is also one of the challenges to us because we have to work on different schedule like morning, afternoon and graveyard shift. With this schedule, nurses have many sleepless nights and that is part of their life of being a nurse. We work on holidays and we could not take off as we want. If we want to go for a vacation we need to request in advance like three to four months in order that our request will be granted.

Overall or in my conclusion, I could say that nursing profession is a risk and is not an easy job ever, as they face different challenges in dealing with their patients everyday. A nurse must possess a good heart, kind and have patience always in doing all the endeavours throughout their life.