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The job of a nurse is to heal and care for individuals in their times of most vulnerability. Nurses and other medical professionals are tasked with taking care of their patients, of healing the body and saving lives. They are life givers and life savers. Every day, nurses and doctors have to go to work knowing that they will witness some sort of despair and trauma. A nurse must be both compassionate and competent. They must feel for the patient, but they must also remain emotionally distant enough that they can still do their job accurately and efficiently, otherwise the staff metaphorically bleeds for everyone who is physically doing so. It is both the most rewarding and most challenging job in the world.
I have tried to work with the perception to judge no patient by his or her personality, age, race, or whether or not the patient is accompanied by a police officer such as a prisoner...
The nurse's job is to care for all people, no matter how they are and to ensure that each patient is given the care that he or she needs. The nurse's role is to make sure the patient gets the medicine, receives the sutures, gets the injection, and fills out the proper forms necessary to be treated for their illness or injury. My philosophy here is to treat each patient, not their circumstances.
This goes hand in hand with another part of my nursing philosophy which is to be a nurse. That is, to provide loving care to all patients no matter what. When someone is in the hospital, the person is either scared and in pain or scared and ill. People who come to see the doctor are at their most vulnerable. They are weakened by illness and injury and have had to reach the conclusion that they are unable to treat themselves for whatever happens to be wrong with them.…
The strengths of this design are related to the ease of application and usage. The design of the survey was easy to administer and self explanatory. While the weakness was related to the willingness of the participant to Chapter Three 5 participate complete the survey and provide truthful responses. An additional weakness is relative to the age group that was present for the survey and their relationship to the use of
As a student who had only just completed the first semester of the course, I had no experience with pediatric patients prior to the shadowing task. Thus, the nurse shadowing task was a rather exciting experience for me, exposing me to several new aspects of pediatric care (Burkitt et.al 2001). However, its most heart- rending element was congenital patient care – seeing babies being born with an illness was a
Decision to Pursue a Nursing Degree and Future Career Goals This is an admission letter for acceptance into a Master Degree Program. New Career Like an increasing number of people, I have chosen to pursue a career in a new profession after years in another. I enjoy working with others and for the past seven years have been employed as both a special education teacher and a school counselor in various grade
Nursing Interview One of the remarkable things about the nursing profession is the wide variety of work opportunities available to nurses. This paper highlights information about a unique nursing career. Jenny J. is a nurse who works for NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. In her career as a nurse working for NASA, Jenny's work experience may seem to be outside of the realm that one traditionally associates
Nursing The greatest challenges facing nursing leadership and the profession as a whole include, but are not limited to, "highly political environments, budget reductions, changing reimbursement patterns, staffing shortages, and rapidly evolving technological advances," (Schmidt, 2006, p. 34). In addition to these environmental and organizational challenges, nurses and nurse leaders contend with issues related to communications, public relations, and personal psychological barriers to greatness. Nurses are endowed with more formal and
Depending on whether your interest is the Army, the Navy, or the Air Force, a military nursing career can offer the opportunity to gain valuable experience while receiving financial assistance. For example, in the Army ROTC the student will gain military science as well as the option to take an elective that includes a unique summer training experience along with the regular nursing training program. The Navy as a choice