Personal motivations for pursuing BSN and CRNA certification in nursing

BSN

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 in police custody would be. 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. Given this is the case, the patient puts all their faith in the people around them. The patient is expecting the nurses and doctors to solve the mystery as to the source of their physical impairment and to treat the disease or injury as quickly and efficiently as at all possible.

The nurse must treat the soul as well as the body. All patients react differently to being in the hospital. Some are so overcome with fear that they turn angry. This anger, in turn, is taken out on the poor nursing staff. Others express their terror be becoming heavily attached to medical staff so that they feel less uncomfortable relying on that individual. The nurse must become whatever it is that the patient requires. If you have a patient who obviously needs some kindness and understanding, then the nurse must become that individual. If the patient needs the nurse to be authoritative and tell them with self-confidence that they are not to question, then the person would become stronger.