Sentimental Woman Needs Not Apply Analysis

This is a paper on the reflection on the movie “Sentimental Woman Needs Not Apply”. It illustrates and gives the evolution of the nursing. It also reflects on one of the most frequent questions employers ask on job interview “What made you Choose Nursing as a profession?” Although, nursing was noted to be as old as time since the beginning, human has carried out a practice of care and nurturing from primitive era to this modern age.

This fundamental core of caring and responding to human needs has been a guiding instinct that has driven the practices of nursing from one generation to another. Nursing starts from the inner desire that is driven by human nature of nurturing and caring. Prior to the time of Florence Nightingale, nursing was in the “Dark Age” because nursing was considered a low job for women of low social classes. A job met for the uneducated people and for those who were desperate to work. These women were of lower social status, untrained helpers of low reputation and were unmarried

with no hope of getting married.
Although nursing as a profession has come a long way, it is sad that some people do not feel this progress across different part of the globe.

For example, in some countries in sub Sahara Africa like Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon, nursing is still considered a female profession. The decision to become a nurse was as a result of the death of my grandmother, who died of glaucoma. For her, life was without care, crude and wicked. Often times no one was there to provide the basic care that could have prolong her life or allowed her to die in dignity. Ethical values and spiritual beliefs influenced the delivering of care to so many women in the village where she lived. After her death, I became a nurse; it became apparent to me how supporting a client who is ill and disable could go a long way. Being a nurse, I enjoyed every minute I spend making a difference in clients’ lives. In most cases, listening to what these clients have to say make me reflect on my own view of

life.
In conclusion, the discipline of nursing has evolved as time goes by. It has evolved from the era of racial segregation and marginalization, low social class, uneducated, unmarried women, slaves, to a profession that now uses and applies Evidence Based practice approach in delivering care. Throughout the evolutionary processes, nursing has always been humanitarian in it services. Today, nurses play major role in healthcare administration and policies. The trained nurse means everything and anything and second to nothing. In other words, a skilled nurse is indispensable to the health care system.