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Nursing: Non-Nursing Individual's Perspective Of Nursing

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Non-Nursing Individual’s Perspective of Nursing
I interviewed three people in my life that I know do not have a lot of knowledge on nursing but I was genuinely surprised to learn how little they know. My mother has been through nursing school and is an RN, so I assumed Brian and Olivia, my stepfather and sister, would at least have some basic knowledge. When asked her perspective on what nurses do my sister answered, “Nurses save people’s lives. They give patient’s their shots and medicines. They have to work with the doctors to make them better” (Garee, O., 2016, Personal Communication). I attempted to get her to elaborate and she said that was all she knew. My stepfather had an even simpler answer, “[Nurses] help the sick” (Garee, B., 2016, …show more content…

My mother and I were discussing what kind of nurse I wanted to be, I had never thought about it before and asked her what all options I had. She found a website that listed all kinds of nursing specialties and descriptions of what they are. I spent about four hours that evening reading about each specialty. I will be honest, seeing the average annual pay of about $160,000 is what really caught my eye about nurse anesthetists. But after reading more on it, I thought that administering anesthetics sounded really interesting and decided to look further into that. I had originally thought that anesthesiologist’s provided most anesthesia in the United States but this is not the case. “Approximately 65% of all anesthesia provided is by nurse anesthetists” (Aguda, 2016, p. 18). Another fact that interested me was CRNA’s can collaborate with many different health care professionals. According to Aguda (2016), Nurse Anesthetists may work with all specialties of surgeons, anesthesiologists, dentists, and other qualified professionals in many healthcare facilities (p. 18). I like the idea of working in many different health care settings. I also was drawn to this specialty because of its education level. I’ve always believed that knowledge is the key to success and therefor try to learn as much as possible. Becoming a nurse anesthetist requires having a master’s degree in nursing. I figure if I’m going …show more content…

As Christians, we are taught to not judge others because it is not our place, so as nurses we would not judge our patients and their personal decisions. I believe Christianity makes us more understanding of people and the situations they are going through. Being understanding can help us to respect our patient’s religious/nonreligious views. An important effect this faith-based program could have on our future careers as nurses is our level of holistic care. At MVNU, we are taught to love all of God’s creations. We are supposed to think of all humans as our brothers and sisters, this could affect how much we care for our patients emotionally. Christian nurses may be better morally guided when providing care. We may be able to connect with some of our patients on a deeper level because of our spirituality. This faith-based program will help us work towards doing everything in Christ’s

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