Becoming A Professional Nurse Analysis

I became a mother at a very young age, seventeen years old. When I was in labor at the hospital, I experienced the nursing care of two very distinct nurses. I quickly became aware of the demeanor of the night nurse. She was unkind, pushy, and insensitive. She also did not explain things and did not smile much. On the other hand, the day nurse was merrier, compassionate, caring, informative, and reassuring. Despite my juvenile state, my comprehension was very astute. I comprehended that there are two types of nurses. One who solely works to attain a paycheck and the nurse who chose the nursing profession because they value humanity. Simultaneously, I was becoming a mother and discovering what my profession would be thanks to the caring day nurse who was a role model.

Nursing is a practice in which nurses promote health and the well-being of patients. I believe that nursing is not only a job that prevents and cures illness, but has a deeper meaning and understanding. Becoming a nurse gives the opportunity to maximize and promote patients’ well-being. It is a way to learn and understand new perspectives and expand prior knowledge, to build relationships with patients, community, and other nurses, in addition to learning how to empathize and realize the patient’s needs, and to value and see people as human beings. I think even with the list given is not enough to define or explain a nurse. I believe being a nurse is a diverse and immeasurable experience, and what happens in this field is unknowing and uncertain. My goal in nursing practices is to take in life experiences and use the skills and ideas learned to shape me to become a better nurse and a better person.

We live in a country of culturally diversity. To provide the highest quality of care to our patients we need to be culturally competent nurses (American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN], 2008, ¶ 2). Using the Heritage Assessment Tool as a guideline I interviewed three families. The first was my own of Russian heritage, the second a colleague with a strong Chinese heritage, and the third a young single mother with a Hispanic heritage. These interviews gave me an insight into their views on health maintenance, protection and restoration. All three cultures had both similarities and differences.

Before the first day of classes back in 2013, I pledged to challenge myself everyday to my full potential as not everyone is given this kind of opportunity to study in one of the most prestigious universities in Canada and in the world. However, sticking to that promise can be difficult when you have a low self-esteem. Confidence is important because it majorly impacts happiness, and determines how much one can achieve in life (Kim & Lee, 2015). My past experiences with bullying definitely knocked my self-confidence over and being a new immigrant, adjusting to a new culture and environment made it worse. When I left the Philippines in 2009, I thought starting a new life in a new country would give me a fresh start away from bullying. Never

During this class I had a lot of important information, positive certain acts, and special normative behavior to be as a professional nurse. The most thing I really concern about a caring, everyone on the earth needs caring, as a professional nurse I have to provide good emotional, and health caring for everyone as a human being.

With the large increase multicultural population in the United States, nurses encounter patients with differences in healthcare beliefs, values and customs. To provide adequate nursing care, nurses must be aware of these differences. They must respect and acknowledge the patient’s culture. To do this, nurses need education on cultural competence to ensure patient satisfaction and better patient outcomes.

Cultural competence is not a new anomaly in nursing. Cultural competence is the ability to provide essential care to patients with backgrounds and belief systems different from our own. Being culturally sensitive is an important part of nursing practice and most employers of nurses usually have diversity training to help facilitate awareness at their healthcare facility. Diversity is prevalent in our society and we only need to look around at the peers we work with and the patients we care for to clearly understand this fact. Cultural differences and the lack of self-awareness about our own attitudes, beliefs, and biases, can negatively affect the nurse-patient communication, the patient’s quality of care, and their health outcome. The

In this research paper the job of a licensed practical nurse (LPN) is explained. Many articles have been used on this topic to support all of my information written. In detail you will learn about the type of work done by an LPN, necessary personal qualities needed to be an LPN, benefits of this job, educational requirements, the work environment, the job outlook , and much more. With the help of many published articles from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center, and the New York State Education Department you will learn a great amount of information related to this topic. I will also be gathering much detail from The Overview of Health Care Careers written by R. Delaet (2014). This paper thoroughly examines

Increasing the number of culturally diverse nursing faculty can be a way to offer diverse role models to the nursing students of cultural minority. In addition, having nursing faculty of another race or ethnicity can help promote and interpret cultural knowledge into the current mainstream Anglo-culture-based curriculum taught in nursing schools today A3. It is suggested that this dominantly white cultured curriculum puts higher demands on students of an ethnic race, and incorporating culturally diverse learning styles can benefit all of the nursing students A3. As an example, incorporating into the nursing curriculum as well as into healthcare practice the emic and etic viewpoints of patients of the minority can be used as a way to see through a more culturally diverse lens

Schools of Nursing prepare their graduates to meet the needs of diverse patient populations by providing cultural competency education. An integral component in undergraduate education, cultural competency in nursing, supports patient-centered care addressing patients’ cultural differences, values, spiritual, ethnic, gender, and sexual orientation preferences. The goals of providing educational sessions on cultural diversity, awareness, and sensitivity are for students to gain the understanding, knowledge, and skills allowing them to improve the quality of patient care. While Schools of Nursing seek to include diverse learning experiences providing application of culturally sensitive care practices, increasing patient acuity and faculty shortages affect the ways we must educate our students. Wilson, et al., (2012) state that “It is no longer possible for students in any health discipline to remain focused on local or national health care problems” (p. 213). This emphasis on global health gives students the skills necessary to provide clinically competent, safe, and culturally appropriate care (Wilson, et. al., 2012). Global health refers to “…improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide” (Wilson, et. al., 2012, p. 214).

Cultural diversity plays an extremely vital role in nursing education and research and in the workforce. Culture can be defined as characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts. As a nurse, understanding that not all patients are the same and that they can express different cultures shows that the nurses have an understanding and compassion of the patients’ differences. Cultural diversity in nursing promotes the best quality care and the most efficient care for a patient—which encourages satisfaction and emotional wellbeing. Nurses in the United States are caring for a progressively more diverse population. In 2008, ethnic and racial minority groups accounted for about one third of the United States population (Ayoola, 2013). As a nurse, nursing educator, or nursing student understanding and learning about other cultures is one of the fundamentals in terms of the best possible care for a patient—which is essentially the primary focus. This paper will discuss the main points of why having and understanding diversity in nursing is such a key factor in ensuring quality care. It will also discuss some of the complications that nurses can come across when dealing with cultural diversity.

I am a recent graduate from College of the Siskiyous with a certificate as a Licensed Practical Nurse. I have a scheduled NCLEX test date for July 16, 2015 and will contact you as soon as I have a license number. I have a passion and desire for wanting to help people through the nursing skills I have developed. I would like the opportunity to become part of your team where I can gain this experience, utilize and enhance my knowledge and skills to provide quality patient care and grow as a professional nurse.

Over the course of this semester, I have learned such an array of important matters and aspects of nursing that will help my nursing career. Among these topics were learning how to prepare for the NCLEX, learning how to manage stress and provide self-care, learning how to be open-minded and realize one’s privileges, learning about the definition of nursing as well as nursing theories, and learning about a plethora of options in the nursing field. Through discussing and thinking about these matters, I feel as though I have become a totally different person than I was at the beginning of the semester.

One purpose of the development of this analysis was to offer a perspective of the concept ‘teach’ as part of professional nurse’s role and other disciplines. Numerous authors had addressed the major understanding of teaching and its goal in the new world, as the process that has to do with the human process of well–being. The unique role of nursing has become one of the most important to assist in the understanding of this new process of teaching involving the human life and the environment interaction.

A nurse can develops cultural knowledge by educating herself or himself about the world view of other cultures and ethnic groups (Creasia & Parker, 2007) about diseases and health conditions, and variations in drug metabolism (Lee, et al, 2006). Some of the ways a nurse can acquire knowledge by reading about different cultures, attending continuing education courses on cultural competence, and attending cultural diversity conferences (Lee, et al, 2006). In clinical setting, a nurse should ask patients how they wish to be addressed. Never make assumptions about individuals or their beliefs. Try to ask questions about cultural practices in a thoughtful manner. Always find out what the client knows about health problems and treatments. In addition, show respect for the client’s support group, for example family, friends, religious leaders, etc.Understand how men and women fit in the client’s society. In some cultures, the oldest male is the decision-maker for the family, even for treatment decisions. If we know who the decision makers are in the family, we can work more efficiently with them to get the better outcomes. This will take time; eventually, nurses will possess a comprehensive knowledge in different cultures, if these are accomplished (Hagman, 2007).