My Nursing Experience

For me nursing was not something that I initially intended to do as a career. During elementary school and into high school I contemplated many different career paths such as cosmetology, teaching, psychology, and forensics. It was not till the later years of high school that I started to notice my desire to help other individuals and love of science, health, and different disease processes. My desire to help people has originated from the admiration of my grandfather’s

Registered nursing has always been something interesting to me. Ever since I was little I’ve always hated going to the doctors’ office because my doctor always had cold hands and the smell just made me grossed out. I think me not liking the doctors’ office is what made me want to be a nurse because as I got older I realized that doctors and nurses are just there to help you and that’s all what I want to do is help. This career is important in many ways as well because RNs’ help people when they are hurt, sick, and sometimes even when someone is dying. My dad used to be an RN’s assistant and he has talked to me about the job. He told me that the amount of children he helped over choking issues or allergies was incredible. I was told that if I was to see how many lives he helped saved I'd be amazed. Once he told me this I realized

Nursing has always been in my life since the day I was born… literally. My Aunt, a labor and delivery nurse, was the one who basically helped my mother deliver me. The fact that my Aunt was lucky enough to be the one that was there for people on those special days fascinated me. As long as could remember I knew I wanted to do that and be the one to help and comfort so many through their highs and lows.

Before coming to school I knew I aspired to be a neonatal nurse, although I was not aware of everything that went along with it. I was a premature baby, along with my older sister. We were both diagnosed

I sincerely believe that I accomplished my goals this week. I realized that I served 14 patients by combining the ability of knowledge, my attitude for excellence that I have consistently defeat the odds to become the very best Nurse practitioner; I can become. This clinical experience brings forth many opportunities and achievements. The most important experience this week; I had the ability to identify as primary healthcare provider a high risk need for the patient to be transferred to the Hospital for further evaluation without delay; due to complaints of “leg cold from the knee down to the feet”, which my evaluation was based on evidence practice knowledge of compassion and skill with the autonomy to practice, diagnose, and treat patients

The factor that made my decision to choose nursing as my major was mother, Esther. My mother has been a registered nurse for as long as I can remember. When I was younger, my mom would bring me to work with her on some of her night shifts at A.I DuPont Children’s Hospital. I remember going to each room and visiting the patients. It made me happy that my mom was their nurse, and was there to help them get better. As I got older, that feeling of me wanting to make a difference in someone else’s life never went away. There are many different types of nurses in the nursing field. My field of preference is to become a Neonatal Nurse. I enjoy working with babies, and studying closely on how they grow, and develop. Some of the characteristics my mom

My interest in nursing dates back to my years in high school, where I actively participated in nursing and pharmaceutical clinicals. Throughout the years, the courses that I participated in lead me to a better understanding of the medical profession and what it would take to become a nurse. These particular courses lead me to believe that earning a degree in Nursing would always be a dream of mine. Since I was a little girl I have always enjoyed taking care of family and friends when they were sick, and till this I still do. I believe that earning a degree in Nursing would give me the opportunity to positively impact not only my family and friends, but

At 18, I was your average high school student. I participated in marching band, took a few advanced courses and enjoyed the fellowship of friends. A blooming teenager with high hopes of attending the University of Alabama at Birmingham to obtain my degree in nursing. However, the summer following my graduation, I discovered that I was pregnant. Understandably shocked by this unexpected circumstance, I placed my dreams of attending UAB on hold.

In my 32 years of practicing nursing, there has always been a nursing shortage. Just one year after I graduated, my hospital started offering sign-on bonuses. While pondering the reasoning behind the nursing shortage, some interesting thoughts came to mind about some of its current causes. I work closely with my manager on the schedule and have done so in many of the healthcare organizations that I have work. One common problems occurs all too often: nursing turnover. Nurses will leave one facility to take a position in another after a year or so of working with us. The manager has mentioned that it cost approximately $20,000 to train a new graduate and about half of that cost to hire an experienced nurse which includes classes and preceptorship.

The nursing field has grown in so many way since the 1900s. A little background about the nursing field… Taking care of the sick was believed that it was caused by sin so nursing was looked at as a religious calling. Around this time, hospitals were built and nursing became recognized as vocational. Around the 1800s, Florence Nightingale changed the nursing field. She was the woman who founded the most important part in infection control, sanitation and sterilization. This lowered the death rate from 60% to 1%. This also opened the door for her to train and educate other women by opening up her first Nightingale training school. This built the foundation what the nursing field is about today.

My mum is my earth, my water, my air, and my fire so in 2010 when we almost lost her my life changed. She has the most radiant smile and a heart of gold, but she has been suffering from her health ever since we were young and continues to suffer as I write. She suffers with what can only be explained as unique and unexpected adverse effects brought on by each medical procedure she has had done. Today my mum no better than before she was operated on. In many ways, she is made more fragile with every slice of a physician's scalpel than by the illness that brought her to the hospital's doors. Why does it seem medicine and the practice of it have affected my mother is such an unexplainable way? Why can't the physicians of this most developed nation solve this puzzle? How can I help? Were some of the questions running through my mind. Amidst the chaos and the gloom, I

You put a great point on explaining things the way they can understand from known experience I understand what you mean when you say that.I also had to look at all the outcomes and made sure this was the job for me because I have seen somethings from working in a nursing home that made me rethink this field a couple of times.Now i'm for sure I want to make this my career I want to tell you good luck through out the course and enjoy your

I had a clinical experience where I felt unprepared during my clinical placement in the Respiratory ward. I had a female elderly patient with aspiration pneumonia, she also has a history of hypertension, and there were no other cardiac illnesses in the handover. She was stable when care was taken over. I assisted her with mobilising to the bathroom and I noticed that her labour of breathing increased although she was on oxygen. When she went back to bed, she started to present short of breath, also she kept rubbing her chest and she was too unwell to stand so she sat down but she could not sit stably by herself. In this situation, I should have realised that she might be experiencing chest pain and pressed the staff assist button for help.

As a nurse, few experiences are more rewarding than a patient or a patient’s family expressing heartfelt gratitude for the difference I have made in their lives. Moments like these are simple yet meaningful reminders of the impact my job has on members of our community and, ultimately, the health of our country and beyond. Seeing the growth and transformation of my dream to make a difference in the world through nursing is equally rewarding. I have had good and bad experiences with nursing. One of the good memories that I have about my nursing career is, in August of 2017, I took care of an 83 year old male who had a hip surgery, and developed an ilieus which was due to a complication after the surgery. This caused the patient to stay several extra days in the hospital. He called to be assisted to the bathroom. As I was assisting him to get out of bed, he had an explosion, and there was bowel movement everywhere. I grabbed a bath blanket to contain the explosion and then I walked him into the bathroom. Whilst he was sitting on the toilet to finish the bowel movement, I washed the bed down and changed all the sheets. I then informed him I would have to give him a shower because that is the only way to keep him clean, he agreed. I then gave this patient a hibiclens shower from head to toe. During this time, he asked “why did you become a nurse?” I told him my parents though I have a passion for caring for people; he then asked if my parents were alive, I told him my mother is

Thinking about my career after I graduate high school is very stressful, but in the past week and a half I think I have decided that I would like to do nursing. The thing that made me become interested in nursing is that I want to help people, I like the blood and I feel like the sicker they are the better for me because I can help get them better and stronger. I want to do something in my life where I feel like I am making a difference, I want the rush of adrenaline when saving someone's life. Realizing that nursing is really what I would love to do is because my dad went in for open heart surgery last Monday on October 1st. He had a triple bypass surgery to help remove the blockage in his heart for future complications. The surgeon said “the surgery went amazing, it was all by the book it was a textbook procedure.” Tuesday, October 2nd. My dad had a heart attack, although he was not aware of it, he kept saying that he was in pain because of the incision, the nurse Ian ordered an Electrocardiogram (EKG) to see if any blockage was in the heart and to see if he in fact was having a heart attack. Once the EKG was done, they found two blood clots in the graphs that they bypassed, they then had to put in four stints back through the main arteries. When all of this was completed, they took him back to the intensive care unit (ICU), the following two days, Wednesday and Thursday, he was doing amazing, he was eating, he was very alert, and healing well. Thursday night the