Nursing: My Personal Goals
I definitely feel that nursing is a calling. The profession is far too demanding for an individual to choose simply for a paycheck. It is not a job that can easily put aside at the end of the day, and may require the nurse to work long hours, multiple shifts, and to go the extra mile when the patient requires additional care. Like many individuals who ultimately chose healthcare as a profession, I have seen my loved ones who were ill being cared for my incredibly caring and professional nurses. I wanted to be like them, and I wanted a career that was of service to others. Also, although I wanted a stable profession that could give me a good living, I also wanted something that I felt was meaningful, personally and to society. Even when a nurses day is stressful and frustrating, it is never wasted or a bad day if she helped a patient. This is the essence of nursing.
Nursing requires an individual to be constantly learning and seeking out new sources of knowledge with curiosity. According to Hall, a nurse must have a broad basis of knowledge, including medicine, gerontology, psychology,...
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…also hope to work as part of an interdisciplinary team of other providers who I can refer my patients to for more specialized care, spanning from
surgery to nutritional advice to physical and
occupational therapy.
In 20 years, I hope to have made a meaningful contribution to the profession of nursing as a whole, joining professional associations, maybe even writing research articles and giving advice to other providers. I will continue to take classes and learn from my patients as well as from my fellow nurses. The profession will no doubt have changed a great deal since then, hopefully for the better. Nurses are increasingly relied upon to provide cost-effective quality care, and I believe that demand will only grow in…
