¶ … Professional Nurse, My Evolutionary Journey As my memory recalls the idea of becoming a nurse was with me when I was an 8-year-old and playing nursing in a makeshift hospital made of my toys. Nursing was being experienced at that time with caring of squirming kittens in my nursery, sleeping dolls in surgery room of my toy hospital. After lapse of a long period since then it is still a wonder that the patients completely unknown never feel reluctant to expose a personal corner of their lives and share with us their deepest threats. At their worst as well as at their best they trust us to be caring, confidential and skilled. Nursing profession is really a unique one and the nursing education is not just a viewer sports where the student listens, observes and understands rather they are required to really live what he or she learns by means of steady involvement regardless of being in nursing centers, attending weekly seminars or in the clinical environment. Nursing education is much more than simply cramming some facts to attain grade 'A' on a test or re-implementing a skill to represent it to attain true perfection. Becoming a nurse necessitates educating oneself on the underlying principles, assessing them, and then making way for the application of the principles to several various clients with same difficulties. They are required to apply their minds along with their hearts, their hands as well as their senses to become more effective professional nurses. (My Philosophy of Nursing Education)

Nursing is attributed by a commitment to the value of caring. Nurses are required to function holistically from a scientific base and apply the nursing process for assimilating concepts and therapeutic nursing interferences. Nurses are required to include varied therapeutic modalities in fostering the optimal functioning and adaptation of individuals seeking health care services. The nursing profession believes in holistic clients, those who are unique and dynamic human beings consisting of consistent intellectual, socio-cultural, psychological, biological, spiritual, and environmental elements. The clients appear to be in persistent contact with forces in their internal and external backgrounds, reacting in an integrated adaptive method to sustain an optimal condition of health throughout the existence. Clients necessitating health care appear to have particular characteristics, necessities and capabilities. They exercise their rights to aware of their health problems and issues hat may influence their lives and desire to have an active role in health care decisions. Nursing presently is found as a mode of connecting with people in need and to improve life and health in a world in which caring practices have been undervalued. (Philosophy: San Antonio College Department of Nursing)

The nature of nursing, particularly in a period of ultrasounds, lasers, MRIs and cell phones that facilitates to explore the energy levels within human system, has been made to stick on to 'pure science' and move away from arenas which are of an energetic or spiritual kind. However, in the words of Florence Nightingale, Nursing has been limited to denote a bit more than administering of medicines and applying of poultices. It is to show the proper usage of cleanliness, warmth, light, fresh air and diet -- all at the least expense of the important authority of the patient. The nurses in their effort promote enhancing the body's own reparative process since it is the nature alone that heals. The nursing provide a unique scope to the nurses for inclusion of a holistic acknowledgement of the significance of their interaction with each client as a unique being within an ever changing environment. (Compassionate Care Nursing with meaning: Incorporating Holism into Nursing Practice)

The holistic view visualizes an integrated whole to be really independent of and higher than the sum of its parts. In a holistic structure, a human being appears to be encompassing more than the grouping of "his/her anatomic, emotional, psychological and spiritual elements." (Compassionate Care Nursing with meaning: Incorporating Holism into Nursing Practice) It signifies that the inherent value of the human being is also higher than the sum of his/her parts, and this view has been adopted by the nurses both experientially and philosophically. Moreover, the holistic view of clients includes the concept that a human is a work in progress, instead of being a static feature and is in persistent interaction with both the internal and external forces. The internal physical factors only react to the physical environment. However, in an emotional level constant interaction persists as the internal emotions reacts and influence upon the emotions of others.

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In this manner human and energy and spirit are to be visualized as involving in an entwined dance both within the self and with the body, mind, spirit and energy of others. Nursing thus is seen as a profession to regulate much of the external psychosocial environment experienced by their patients and to provide several healing methods inclusive of touch, cold, heat, message and the intangible feature of 'tender loving care'. Nursing thus provides enough scope in recognizing the fact that illness is a common time that involves emotional and spiritual crises and therefore makes it quite imperative to provide enough scope of the patients in order to voice their spiritual problems. Each momentary contact with a client is considered to have a particular influence. The interaction has some meaning and significance on multifarious levels, which is inclusive of the spiritual. (Compassionate Care Nursing with meaning: Incorporating Holism into Nursing Practice)
The complete knowledge of human person, as individuals, families, communities and groups has been considered as a crucial point of knowledge in the development of nursing. The social and cultural setting for the person, family or community indicates multiple values and social political perspectives. Nurses acknowledge both the commonalities and differences of people. A human being appears to be evolving, in process, fluid and varying. Each individual and social community has goals, promise and potential for continuing transformations. The individual has the capacity to choose and has free will influenced by the context of one's past present, and future. Inherently, the individual appears to be good, has rights and is self-directed simultaneously acknowledging the rights of others and works towards enhancing freedom and liberation for self and other individuals. The human beings are independent and lives in society with reciprocity, interaction, affiliation and relationship. The person makes meaning by means of dialogue and exchange, along with self-reflection. By means of such meaning only the person learns about other persons. (Consensus Statement on Emerging Nursing Knowledge: A Value-Based Position Paper Linking Nursing Knowledge and Practice Outcomes)

Health is a complex multidimensional phenomenon which is being affected by psychological, biological, socio-cultural and spiritual variables. It is viewed as a dynamic process and is viewed as a blend of wellness and ailments and is indicated by the perception of the client during the life period. Such a view concentrates on the complete nature of the client in social, physical, aesthetic and moral areas. Health is seen as contextual and comparative. Wellness in this consideration is taken to be lively experience of correspondence between the possibilities and realities of individuals and dependent on caring and feeling cared for. Illness is considered as the lived feelings of loss or dysfunction that can be mediated upon by caring relations. The cliental approach to stress and coping is seen to be inherent within such conceptualizations. (2003-2004 School of Nursing Undergraduate Student Handbook)

The environment is viewed as the background and geography of human interaction with society or the setting of daily life and incorporates changes and differences in time, space and quality. This includes social, personal, national and global and so on. The Environmental setting is also determined by the societal values, customs, mores, beliefs, and expectations. The surrounding environment is also viewed as an energy field in mutual interaction with the human energy field with the theoretical arena in which the nursing clients perceive aesthetic beauty, caring relations, vulnerable to wellness and experiences of health. (2003-2004 School of Nursing Undergraduate Student Handbook)

Now when we discuss about a timeline, I would state that I had an intense desire to become a nurse since my childhood. During my High School career I began to view seriously about the nursing programs and attempted to select between a four-year course and two-year program. My volunteer efforts as a candy striper in a local hospital during my high school career exposed me to nursing and several other health avenues like physical therapy and occupational therapy. Presently the Nurse Midwives are considered about 70 years old and proud to be the oldest advanced practice nursing profession in the United States. After a two-year Registered Nursing degree it was possible to receive a midwifery certificate in one year. (The Road to Becoming a Nurse Practitioner)

However, since 1990 the minimum entry has become a Bachelor's degree in Nursing. The courses in nursing begins from learning basic nursing skills, according shots and medications, taking histories, providing baths, important…