With Whom Do You Identify Most? Caroline Ellis in the movie, “The Skeleton Key” is whom I identify mostly with. She’s a caregiver who’s ambitious, caring and energetic, who works in a hospice facility: where people go to seek medical care and comfort in their last weeks or days of life. Once Caroline realizes how people are cold hearted, careless and that patients are just a statistic; she decides it’s time for her to leave and fine something else to do even in the middle of starting nursing school. Caroline ends up landing a job at the Devereaux’s plantation home taking care of Ben, a Hoodoo stoke victim. Throughout my life I have been a caregiver for several people. Although it started when I was young with taking care of my …show more content…
As a caregiver, sometimes you go above and beyond the call of duty when you someone you love or care deeply for is suffering. No matter the circumstances; self-inflected, Hoodoo, overdose, or medical induced, a good caregiver will do research and try to find out what’s causing the hallucinations. In the elderly this is quite common; however, when we miss a loved one, no matter the age, sometimes our mind can cause us to see the same images as our love ones as well. Therefore, we can rationalize with our patients like I have, just as Caroline did with Ben. After talking with several of my friends and family members that’ve watched the movie, they said I definitely remind them of Caroline because I’m always taking care of everyone, my motherly instincts. For as long as they’ve known me, that’s how I’ve always been. I asked them if I was too motherly; they said no; that this is who you are, who makes you a better person and will make you the type of nurse you’ve always wanted taking care of your love ones. My friends and family know me best. They’ve been around me for years, day and night. My sisters, parents and my best friends tell me how it is and will not lie to me. This is why I go to them and ask them things when it comes to nursing. Specially, my best friend, Jane, she is a Critical Care Nurse. I value what she thinks. We’ve always been able to tell each other the truth. If this helps me in taking care of someone, then by all means I need to
My mother was a foster parent and my best friend was in foster care for years. I realized at 23 that I was good with people and knew this was a way to constantly interact with people for a good cause. I enjoy helping families in need as I know what it takes to maintain a family. I can relate to people in need as I share some of the same experiences.
Margot is very compassionate about everyone and making sure that everyone is happy and has what they need. She is compassionate about her school work even though they are not in school
I can relate myself best to Rebecca Nurse from The Crucible because we both share a bond with children, have stubborn attitudes, and use logical thinking. Until the very end Rebecca lived a long and happy life surrounded by family and a loving husband. She was kind and well respected in the community. I hope to do the same as well. Since we are related, I am curious if I related any of these traits from
I learned that as a nurse I must take the initiative to regulate my work environment and myself. As much as nurses are part of the larger healthcare team, they often function autonomously. I will need to keep my skills up to date and educate myself by reading current research articles and taking classes at work. I will need to be humble and open to constructive criticism from my fellow employees. I must do my best to be hard working, honest, and helpful both in the work place and my persona life. It’s irrational to think people can be completely honest in one area of their life, but not the rest. If I suffer from any sort of bias towards my patients for the choices
Carper (1978) defined personal knowing as the candid personal relation between a nurse and his/her patient. She encourages nurses to place themselves in their patients’ shoes so they will have the sensitivity and awareness to address not only physical needs. This author believes that this is very important because nurses need to empathize with patients and their family members as they go through difficult illnesses. It is important to remember that each patient, their illnesses and their situations are different and thereby we should approach them differently. This author also believes that this pattern of knowledge helps build a relationship and trust with the patient. This confidence and trust ultimately lead to patient being more comfortable and
Rhetorical Analysis of Oliver Sacks’ Seeing God in the Third Millennium Hallucinations can come in all shapes and sizes, occuring for many different reasons. Understandably, these experiences can become life-altering in the blink of an eye. Famed neurologist and author, Oliver Sacks, examined various cases of patients who received such hallucinations. In the article, Seeing God in the Third Millennium, he explored how the brain creates out-of-body experiences and religious epiphanies. By using his strong rhetorical prowess, Oliver Sacks successfully argued that hallucinations are not all they appear to be.
Oh my Atlanta, after thinking about it the character Florence from “Bless Me, Ultima” and I have quite a few similarities. At a deep and human level Florence and I connect as we both have suffered pain from religion. My boy Florence once said, “My mother died when I was three, my old man drank himself to death, and my sisters are whores, working at Rosie’s place”(194). At times myself I can partially relate with that though I may not have it as bad as Florence, fortunately. I have gone all my life with really no true role model with a father who has abused drugs, and a mom that was always too busy. I understand though as we all have our own faults. Life has been a tough course for me, few people can actually understand how it feels when you
My former caregivers embody the skilled nursing professional that I hope to one day become. They never allowed their personal beliefs to get in the way of patient care. They were committed to learning and bettering themselves for their patients. They were not afraid to admit what they did not know but they also refused to give up until they found answers. They were willing to help assist other medical professionals because they understood the importance of uplifting their team. They were efficient multitaskers that remained organized and detail oriented. My former nurses were committed to supporting and believing in patients that did not have the strength to do it themselves. For the nurses I encountered, nursing was not a just job. It was a way of life that they were dedicated to and passionate about. I will never be able to fully repay those who helped me, but I can support them by joining them in their continuing efforts to better serve the community.
* Hallucinations – see things that aren’t there or talk to people who aren’t around.
Giving myself time to read up on nursing experiences, attending more clinical practice labs, participating and watching these duties in the health care setting will allow me to develop a secure level of confidence the next time that this type of situation may occur. Staying in the room allowed me to experience the feeling of support while looking past social norms and how they are challenged. I met my personal values, and I believe that one should respect another person`s privacy. This understanding allowed me to be there to support the resident during her time of need. In the article `starting out` by Jane Schulz, a nursing student shares her experience of helping her colleague assist an elderly patient with daily care. Observing the compassion and care between nurse and patient from fundamental tasks, she took away a valued lesson of how our support and caring methods affect an individual. My relation to this story allowed me to reflect on the effects my care and supporting actions had on our patient.
In the professional setting, knowing the patient through his or her diagnosis, name, history of present illness, laboratory results or reason for staying in the hospital only contributes to the manner of physical care of the patient. However, recognizing the patient 's spiritual needs such as emotional support, mental positivity, and intellectual understanding of his or her situation gives a better assessment, as well as a trusting relationship between the nurse and the patient, as per personal experience. In the ward, it is evident that most of the staff nurses spend their time doing documentations, preparing medications, following-up laboratory requests, as well as reading through the patients ' charts to affirm the physician 's order. Throughout the duration of our shifts as student nurses, I see that the most that the staff nurses get to be conversant with the patient is when certain procedures (such as feeding through nasogastric tube, taking
As nurses we all bring our own values and beliefs to the job whether or not we intend to, it happens. I place large amounts of value on family and friends. These are the people you can call on for support. I know that without the support of my mom helping me with my kids and my house work there is no way I could be in the nursing program. Family is often a place when as children we learn and develop our values and beliefs. Giving this deeper thought I can see how this is true for myself. When working with B I would often think about what it would be like to be raised in an unstable environment by a mother who struggles with mental health and addictions. B was often placed in respite foster homes. I found myself thinking about what it would be like to sit down to meal with a strange family how awkward would he have felt. Building on this making connections with people is very important to me. Once I was able to build a connection with B I was able to work with him in a more cohesive way. Making that convection helps to build trust, positive relationships are built on trust. Being a good listener is a skill that I value as a nurse. Not only do I value being a good listener but I also value being heard. I value you a person 's ability to do what they say they are going to do. If you tell a patient that you will return to check in with them in 30 minutes than you need to be sure that you keep your word. When working with clients it is import to me to build on
Many of whom were lacking in both the knowledge and at times grace to work with a women in my mother’s state. As a result of this and my willingness to learn and love I have lately found myself stepping up to care for her. I have experienced the early mornings and late nights associated with caring for and maintaining an IV line as well as the handfuls of medications to be delivered at certain times throughout the day. This experience I have come to realize is part of what made me truly fall head over hills with nursing. In addition to the endeavors with my mother I was able to obtain and keep a job at my local elderly care center. It was my three years there that helped me to both learn and love to care for people in a professional setting. The work I accomplished with my coworkers and supervisors during my time there also turned out to be not only helpful when providing care but in my everyday life as well. They helped me to understand that everyone has different personalities and beliefs and that when they are combined something magical just might happen. Despite the different opportunities I have had in my life, I like all other people am still
Working well with people is an important factor in the nursing career; a nurse must always be respectful to every patient regardless of the situation. Persuasion sometimes has to be used because a patient may not want a certain medication so a nurse must help the person understand that it is what is best for him or her health and their track to recovery. A nurse must always pay close attention to their patients because if problems or concerns come up, a nurse must be the first to notice it.
In the movie, the Babadook, the characters express their grief that never leaves. It grows as “monster” that one learns how to deal with because losing someone is never gets easier. These scenes are compared and contrasted through mise-en-scè, cinematography, and editing. This scene analysis is going relate two scenes that helps understand what one goes through after a lost. The movie has characters that help express the misery of one that doesn’t learn how to grieve in a proper manner. How one overcomes the pain and changes for the better and slowly has better days. A brighter day might not come tomorrow, but learning how to control your days come within time.