I palpated the presumptuous malignant lump in my right upper abdominal area over, and over again. At the time I was ten years-old and thought that maybe I was delirious at one in the morning. The lump would not disappear. I palpated so often that the skin became tender with a single touch. I was terrified of a simple little lump in my body. A little lump that was capable of making an even larger impact on my life. It may seem rare that a ten year-old was constantly assessing their entire body for lumps, but it was a ritual for me every night before bed. At ten years-old I was fascinated with the quickly developing disease called cancer. Books and movies involving cancer fascinated me and was often my favorite to witness.
Being knowledgeable of the pain associated with the disease, I rushed to my
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I applied to several jobs before landing my current job: a registered nurse in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in South Miami. As a NICU nurse I am exposed to a number of critical care instances. For example, level II and III NICU nurses are trained to handle codes. There are no code teams for our unit and you are assumed to control your patient’s code. Witnessing my very first code has been the most memorable moment. As a recently graduated nurse, I had always imagined a code to be a messy and uncontrollable situation, however, this was the exact opposite. My colleagues and I were organized and focused on the task at hand: saving the life of a premature baby girl. Being part of a team that was so poised and calm while running a code was inspiring. Luckily, we were able to resuscitate the premature infant and stabilize her vital signs. Months later the infant was discharged with her parents who were forever thankful to the team that help save their baby girls life. These are the moments that allow me to continue to pursue my dream in ultimately becoming a Family Nurse Practitioner. I want more of these moments to
At this point in my life I find myself in an interesting predicament regarding my attitudes toward reading and writing; more so towards reading. Years ago I used to love reading books for pleasure but nowadays I find myself reading things that little to no effort to digest. This includes the very basic posts on facebook expressing one’s opinion on something or articles and threads on reddit discussing topics I find intriguing. Perhaps it’s the severe senioritis that has overcome me as I enter my last semester at Chapman University. As I’ve gotten lazier I can see it start to reflect in my everyday life. Deep down I still love to read but I rarely find myself getting truly invested into the action unless it relates to something I am very
As Finkelman (2006) stated, “Mentoring, and important career development to that can be used by nurses any type of set or specialty, can be used to develop the critical leadership skills needed by nurses. All successful leaders have had mentors are our mentors” (Finkelman,2006, p. 390).
“School made us ‘literate’ but did not teach us to read for pleasure.” -Ambeth R. Ocampo
As I am trying to beat the clock, seconds turned into minutes and minutes turned into hours, and nonetheless did I knew, it was already eleven post meridiem. My eyes are desperately yearning for sleep, but my brain is forcing myself to continue, because it knows there is more books assignments and quizzes for AP Psychology, AP Art History, AP Chemistry, AP Calculus, AP Language and Composition, and Academic Decathlon just waiting on my desk. Desperately typing the last few words on my essay and simultaneously reading the last few pages of my history book, I finally succeed with a mere two minutes before James Harden appear on the Late Late Show, and I finally go to sleep. Nonetheless did I know, this was only the beginning, the real race is
Nursing is all I’ve wanted to do since i was 8-years old. I was the little girl who would pretend to be the nurse with a white sheet like it was my coat, and wearing my mother’s stethoscope checking heartbeats. My mother bought me a medical kit and everyday i’d check everyone’s heartbeat, blood pressure, and vitals. But at that age all I knew was i had to hold their wrist for a while not knowing what i’m feeling for, writing random numbers in a notebook, and putting my ear against their chest waiting for the “thump-thump” sound. They’d go along with me and I’d think to make the pain go away is to give it a kiss and a band-aid. Until my mom said “ Chanel stop using all the band-aids”. Then, I had to cut down on my practices.
I’d first like to thank you for your interest in the team. We are always excited when we receive applications. Our application process may span the course of multiple months. It is this span of time that helps us determine whether or not an applicant is the right fit for the team. It is important that you fill out our application with detail and honesty.
The opportunity to challenge myself in UCLA’s School of nursing, in addition to my own personal experiences and traits, supply me with a fierce determination to succeed in my academics, in my nursing career, and in fulfilling my aspirations as a whole.
at the orphanage, I was able to help build a sidewalk and a garage for
With a consistent change in modernizing medicine, along with the continuing advancement in technology, continuing education in nursing is essential for a variety of reasons. The nurse’s main concern is providing safe, efficient, and effective patient care with positive patient outcomes. This paper will examine the differences in competencies between nurses prepared at an associate-degree level versus a baccalaureate-degree level, in order to provide an evidenced-based understanding of the variation in the educational preparation of nurses.
DESCRIPTIVE PHASE - The second day of clinical at Western State Hospital, my objective for this day was to have at least a 5 minutes conversation with my client, however when I arrived my client was not at the hospital, he went to department of motor vehicle (DMV) to renew his driver license. After he came back I went and reminded him, who I was and why I was there, he remembered me, without any delay I expressed how excited I was to talk to him, we talked almost more than 10 minutes, reasonably he was in positive mood. I felt relatively we had candid, warm, and productive conversation. However during our conversation many times my client looked around his surroundings cautiously and gazed at some of the people in the room. We talked about from the line at the department of motor vehicle, football, soccer to his plan of cutting back on alcohol and following through sobriety. He talked about his child hood memories, playing on afield all day with his friends in California and how he ended up broken his leg during a car accident, when he was 20 years old, which forced him to be amputated. He took a long breath, went quite for seconds and stared at the left side glass
The need for continuing education in nursing has been accentuated in response to rapidly changing health care environment. Expanding knowledge by pursuing higher education allows nurses to enlarge one’s practice. Furthermore, higher education in nursing has been shown that a nurse’s level of education can become a critical factor to the patient-centered quality of care. This essay describes increased demand for higher education in nursing and emphasizes the necessity of continuing education to provide optimum patient care in various setting.
It was a normal Friday in March except for the fact that I got my license. So my friends and I thought about what we were going to do now that I have my license. Well, we cruised around town thinking we were hot stuff and that we were better that most kids in school since I had my license before many of my friends. We decided that we'd go off-roading since I had the huge truck. It was a hunter green 1979 Ford F-250 Custom. It had huge 33-inch tires, a loud crackling exhaust, and a unique 2-inch thick oak plank flatbed. It really was a beast. So we roared around the backroads hitting bumps and flying into fields just causing a little mischief not doing too much harm. After a week of horsing around
Children have a tendency to bring out the very best in people. I can say I have been fortunate to have four little blessings of my own. I consider each of them as a blessing and each day I am reminded of how much they mean to me. My children have brought out the best in me--parts that I never knew existed. As children grow, so do parents. I have evolved into a better person with the courage to overcome all obstacles because of the love that I have for my children.
Story telling is a uniquely human attribute. It is an imaginative process between the composer and responder that invites us, as the audience to engage vicariously with the experience of others. Stories or narratives have been shared in all culture as a mean of education, entertainment and also to notify the audience of the values and belief systems of our culture. The texts of ‘Through the tunnel’ and ‘Green tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe’ conspicuously highlight the ability of storytelling to empower the individual and outline storytelling as a device to inform us of values and people’s transmission is able to transcend time.
I plan on attending a four year college to become a nurse and will then go about two extra years to become a nurse practitioner. I want to be able to help others become better in the future which influenced my decision for my future career. I would also like to continue volunteering whenever I can. I would especially like to continue volunteering with the Racine County Conservation League, as I enjoy the work I get to do with that organization.