Nurse Residency Trainee Program Narrative Report

Being born to Nigerian parents who came to the USA about 20 years ago, the motto that was always preached was integrity. "No matter what you do pursue it to excellency," my father said. Instilled from an early age, I used this mentality to excel in high school, earn a full-tuition scholarship to The Ohio State University and now enter into to Johns Hopkins University to pursue nursing and subsequently become a nurse practitioner, I will use it to provide quality care. I also realize the opportunity to that has been granted to me. I was not born into an environment filled with war, poverty, and/or disease or an environment with little opportunity. That is why I am so passionate about the Nurse Corps mission in serving underserved communities. After experiencing the conditions back home on trips to Nigeria contrasting with my solid upbringing in America, I feel a moral responsibility to give back to those who are less fortunate than me. Those in underserved communities often face the greatest barriers to quality healthcare including not knowing where to go for health care and in communities with undocumented individuals the fear of deportation prevents people from getting care. Add these factors with the burden caused by other environmental stressors the likelihood of poor health outcomes in these communities increases. After seeing the suffering and hearing stories of family friends from

Brent, thank you for sharing your Epidemiology of Overnight Nurses post. My previous position was a float nurse on night shift and I totally relate to how it is a challenge to your body. Unfortunately, I had gained about 30 pounds on night shift and felt frustrated. My body was always fighting with am I supposed to eat or is this just eating to stay awake. I learned our body’s need routine, sleep, and rest. Now that I work a day shift position my body doesn’t feel as though “running out of gas” all the time. My energy level has increased. I have a much better quality of sleep. My family loves that I have switched to day shift for my overall health as well.

My clinical experience with my preceptor who has been a nurse manager for ten years has been invaluable. I have been working with her for just two weeks, but I would have to say she is definitely a nurse leader. She has taken me under her wing to introduce me to new technology and computers systems within the VA. When she started, this technology was not used and she has stated and I also believe, it has made her job much easier to get multiple tasks completed in a timely manner. Informatics is the science of computer information systems and these systems are widely distributed throughout the VA. By my working with just this one preceptor I have gained the knowledge and skills necessary to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams within

Given the high turnover rate of new graduate nurses on this unit, I am making a proposal to the nursing supervisor to create a training workshop to help new graduate nurses acclimate to their new positions and working environment. The learning objective for the workshop will be to gain confidence in skills, enhance teamwork, and proficiency in communication and interpersonal exchanges. The Registered Professional Nurse, as defined by the Nurse Practice Act, diagnoses and treats human responses to actual and potential physical and emotional; health problems; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members, providing physical and emotional support to patients and their families; supervising assigned team members.

In September of 2015, the unexpected happened before my eyes, my grandmother experienced a stroke. Despite getting her to the hospital in a timely manner, I still blamed myself for not reacting quicker, or knowing at the time what I needed to do. It was a torturous night as well as the most frightening thing I have ever experienced. As I spent every moment I could by her side, a day came where I felt a sense of security in her recovery. On this day, my grandmother received a new nurse, and she was not anything short of amazing. She was courteous, helpful, and she made sure my grandmother received the best care possible. It was a blessing because I believed things were not going to change for the better, but she gave reassurance that God would

When I was a freshman in high school, I unfortunately had to deal with the suicide of a family member. Prior to his untimely death, I had no idea what I wanted in the future. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” was always met with “I’m not really sure yet”. This suddenly changed after his death. I began to think, after you die, what is left behind? What was his legacy? I knew I wanted to leave something behind and create my own legacy. I knew I wanted a career which focused on helping others, something that would have a major impact on people even after I was gone. So I decided to pursue nursing. I knew in my heart I needed to continue with my life and focus on bettering myself and those around me. I could not linger on the past anymore.

As the transition from student nurse to RN becomes a reality, reflecting on the entire process is imperative in order to understand not only who I was, who I am, but the woman I am becoming. The journey I have endured to get where I am today has proven to me that I am capable of achieving anything I set my mind to. Through my trials and errors of becoming an athletic trainer, I have discovered that although I may be able to diagnose and injury and rehab an athlete back to health, my heart beckoned for an alternative in the health care field. Stepping into a pediatric setting was the most impactful decision I have ever made. I felt a sense of true belonging and attachment. It was through this experience I chose to pursue nursing with an

I cannot imagine how Ms. Nightingale and her teams can handle the situation like that. She is the pioneer and mentor for us. It is our duty to continue her spirit no matter what nursing we choose. Yet, we continue what she built such as improve sanitary condition, prevention of disease and health promotion. The reading from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation reports that, now the problem that we have in the community is multiple chronic diseases because a lot of life died because of it (which is so true). Please share with me, if anyone of you knows how public health nurses handle this current issue. Because for two years I work as a nurse, only 1 patient whom I met had only 1 disease. If I think about it, there is a big responsibility for us as

I worked as a camp counselor at the Kraft Family YMCA in Apex for 3 years before coming to college at ECU. I'm currently a sophomore here now getting my degree to become a pediatric nurse. I have always loved children and have continued to babysit here and there while in college. I've been looking for a job for the summer and would love to meet you and your family.

When I joined this program, I decided that I wanted to become a nurse but I wasn't so certain on what type of nurse I wanted to become. I thought about becoming a pediatric, neonatal, oncology or a psychiatric nurse. But I did not know which field best suited me. Eventually, I signed up for work based learning so I can shadow nurses and help others so that I can see which field I wanted to pursue. When I was interning at Rehab where all the physical and occupational therapists were at, I completely forgot about nursing and I wanted to be either a physical or a occupational therapist. But I thought that I was too weak to be a physical therapist. So I shut that thought down. So I told myself that I could always be a nurse since either way I

When I first became a nurse, the floor I worked on was wonderful. Every nurse took the time to answer questions and didn’t make you feel stupid for your questions. But, over time these same nurses had a shift in their attitudes to new nurses. The floor was having a high turnover right and we always had student nurses on the floor. Some became down right mean to the new nurses and the student nurses. These seasoned nurses would either not answer the nurses or make a joke of them. The new nurses would only go to certain nurses with questions and if those nurses were not there they would just figure it out. I became one of the nurses that these nurses would come to. They need someone that they can ask question and not feel that they would

I wish I could say that nursing was always my first choice. I was raised in the small town of Auburn, Alabama. The baby of the house, I was seventeen years younger than my older brother. Both parents were employed as social workers, which is probably where I developed my caring nature from. As I matured, I knew that my desire was to help others, I just was not certain as to how. I juggled between being a teacher, a lawyer, or even a detective but my senior year of high school, that all changed. It was after joining Health Occupation Students of America that I sensed that nursing was my calling.

In the beginning of the clinical hour, I spends some time to look through every part of assessment, interviewing, diagnosing, outcome identification, planning, evaluating, documenting, reporting, and implmenting with the resident. I asked few of my fellow students and instructors for anything that I don't understand in the paper, and I tried to build an accurate application of blended skills and critical thinking without making any errors and misintepretation by understanding every steps of the nursing

-As an RN I used to believe that nursing is not only one of the earliest professions, but also the greatest. Nursing teaches you how to combine very distinguished triats. It makes you courageous, fearless, strong and independednt, but also kind, compassionate and thoughtful.

Mr. Thathamkulam RN, MSN works as the Nurse Manager (NM) for Eye Clinic. He has demonstrated excellence in his nursing assessment skills, leadership skills, coordination of care for the internal and external customers, collaboration with the interdisciplinary team, and using evidence based research to guide the practice of his employees to impact good patient/family care results. In 2013, he obtained his MSN with an emphasis in Health Care System Education and MBA in management and finance from American Sentinel University and Manav Barti university respectively. He mainly focused his interest in patient’s safety and quality throughout his service in the VA system. He worked as a full time Team Leader and charge nurse for 7 years in Telecare and interim NM for 2 months, where he has demonstrated leadership and management skills prior to the current position. As a leader and charge nurse, he has been maintaining the integrity in work, demonstrated the assertiveness and leadership skills, helped the organizational development, and promoted the client’s and provider’s satisfaction. Mr. Thathamkulam has been functioning in the Nurse Manager (NM) role for the past 5 months and has made changes and improvements for the betterment of the service and at the organizational level.