A Proud Moment In Nursing

The making of a nurse leader takes education, training, and experience. Whatever the personality trait of a professional nurse, this self-discovery will only be a means to aim in becoming a nurse leader. A professional nurse in leadership is one that is transformational, involved in a professional organization, a change agent, and has a high Emotional Intelligence to be able to manage a team. She is aware and knowledgeable of the inevitable changes occurring in the nursing field. She is highly capable in setting up strategies for conflict resolution and culturally competent with such capacity in achieving high performance in a diverse healthcare team. Most importantly, her leadership promotes

Chamberlain College of Nursing- Illinois, which is one of the many schools owned by the DeVry Education Group, is a nursing school that offers bachelor, master and doctoral nursing degrees. Chamberlain College of Nursing boasts over 125 years of producing nursing graduates. During the late 1890s, a church pastor decided to create a nursing school based on the practices of the Deaconess tradition in Europe. The famous Florence Nightingale, who is considered to be the founder of modern nursing, studied at a Deaconess school. The Chamberlain College of Nursing’s goal is to

My definition of nursing is that of someone who genuinely cares about the well-being of others and helps heal those who are ill. Nursing is both an art and a science because in order to understand a patients diagnosis you must know the pathophysiology and basic lab values. The science part of nursing allows us to make judgments on medication orders doctors prescribe, procedures, and practices. Art is also apart of nursing because as nurses we must have intuition, compassion, and warmth towards our patients. It is what allows us to therapeutically communicate with our patients. A person can have the science part, but not master the art and therefore, that person may be uncompassionate towards a patient. I have see nurses in clinical settings

In the corner of the small hospital room stood a shy little girl. “You shouldn't be in here, honey”, my mother said as she nudged me out of the room where my grandfather lay dying. At the time, I couldn't understand the enormity of the situation. Ignorant to what was happening around me, my innocent mind fled with curiosity. The beeping of the machines and the soft quick steps of nurses captivated my attention. I was fascinated with this strange new world. This is the moment that sparked my desire to become someone great; a nurse.

A discussion regarding the health care reform or even health care in general can be somewhat controversial. The definition of health is drastically different depending on whom you speak to. Many would define health as " a person's absence of disease, others would describe good health based on the status of mind, body & social well-being" (GCU Lecture, module 2, 2012). According to The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, health is defined as "The overall condition of an organism at a given time". An individual's overall health affects the nation, this is where stakeholders come into value. According to Keele, Buckner & Bushnell a stakeholder is either an individual or an organization that either invest time and

1. Briefly describe your interest in the theme of this community. What experiences have led to your interest? (75 to 100 words) I am interested in the Nursing LLC at Florida State University because I am a pre-nursing major. I believe that being a part of the Nursing LLC will allow me to explore the major that I am interested in greater depth.

Have you ever had a moment in life that validated the direction in which you felt compelled to follow? A moment which never escapes your mind because it represents one of the purest, symbolic instances you have experienced? Or a moment as simple as being handed a book to encourage you to further your dream? A time to inspire you to succeed in becoming something even more significant than you already are? Or had a moment offering you the opportunity to enhance your knowledge, and thrust yourself into the world you so deeply want to be a part of? I was handed the Merck Manual along with a kind gesture and warm-hearted encouragement which aided in igniting a fire, reaffirming what I felt I was meant to do; it was a defining moment in my life.

Yes there was a defining moment in my life that made me want to pursue a nursing career. That moment was when my cousin got killed in October of 2011. My cousin was a 23 year old lady who was sitting outside her "grandmother's" house and got struck by a bullet in her arm and her neck. The bullet in her neck was so big that it ripped the top of her esophagus. My cousin was in the hospital for a week straight and then the nurses and doctors decided it was nothing else they could do so they pulled the plug on her which was the worst day of my life. They said she was brain dead because there was too much fluid on her brain because she didn't get any oxygen while she was in the ambulance. If my cousin would have lived she wouldn't have not been able to talk, I would

The purpose of this assignment is to critically appraise a selected research paper following a data extraction relevant to the field of nursing. Critical appraisal is the process of evaluating the strengths and weakness of research, to find out if it is valid, reliable and applicable (Moule and Goodman, 2009). The following article to be critiqued is “A Nutritional Formula Enriched with Arginine, Zinc, and Antioxidants for the Healing of Pressure Ulcers” by Cereda et al. (2015).

Many people grow up knowing they are destined for nursing, but for others like myself, life has to be turned upside down. In July 2010, I was excelling in school and preparing to take off for a semester in France. I was at a high point in my life. But in an instant, it came to a full stop. I awoke one night to find myself trapped in a burning apartment from which I narrowly escaped by way of a third-story window. I had severe burns over 25% of my body, and broke both of my heels and two vertebrae. From there, my nursing epiphany was born.

I once heard someone say, “Find something you love to do and you’ll always be successful.” If you want to be in a field where you are continually learning, nursing would be the top pick. This paper will reflect the journey I have taken from Registered Nurse (RN) to Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) with the incorporation of my learning objectives from my clinical course.

The concept of shame can be negative or positive and can often be felt by nursing professionals daily. Shame is significant to one’s dignity, conscience, and identity and is determined by ones personal self (Kaufman, 1996). Merriam-Webster defines shame as having the feeling of remorse, sorrow, or humiliation (Shame, n.d.). More times than not shame is ignored and played down to a minimum because most lack the ability to converse about shame. Shame can cause nurses and healthcare professionals to become fatigued and disorganized, which can cause errors in patient care.

Courage in the nursing field. Courage is often a term that does not define nurses when you ask somebody what a courageous profession is. According to Walston (2004), “they don’t perceive comforting a sick or dying person, questioning a doctor’s recommendation, attempting a new medical procedure, or taking initiative as courageous workplace moments” (p. 1). What people do not realize is that courage is “tested daily” in the nursing profession (Walston, 2004, p. 1). Nurses have to make decisions that would could cause bad reactions from other nurses or doctors but they do it because they have their patient’s best interest in their heart. Focusing on the patient’s best interest allows the patient to see how courageous the nurse is because they

I was a volunteer at the oncology department of hospital for almost a year, and one of my jobs was assisting the nurse manager with the organization of the “nurse of the month” board. The nurses used to vote for the “nurse of the month”, but if during the same year that nurse had already been “nurse of the month”, the nurse manager would pick another person be on the board. The winner would also receive a gift from the nurse manager. During my time setting up the board I heard many times nurses were not able to vote because they worked during the night shift, and voting was done during the day shift, and felt that they were not considered enough for that prize. While this wasn’t a deal breaker situation for the nurses, it could have certainly

The nursing profession is one of many portrayed by the media. In its simplest form media is how information is shared and stored. Media covers a wide range of services, advertisements, brochures, pamphlets, TV shows, films, novels, and magazines, digital, electronic, it goes on and on. Media is more accessible these days; the internet and wireless technology makes it easy for many people to access information on a wide scale. As information is shared by the media the public creates an image. This image may be right or it can be wrong, it all depends on the media’s accuracy. Nurses have been depicted in many forms over the years. These depictions can influence the public’s opinion of the profession as well as the likelihood that the profession will be considered for future students. Nurses need to take a more active role in how the profession is portrayed by the media, they need to work together to portray the profession in its best light in order to recruit and retain nurses.