Nursing Students As A Nurse

From a very early age I have had a passion and drive to help people. I was first inspired to go in to a nursing career by my grandmother who would tell me stories about her experiences as a midwife. One that stood out to me was when she travelled through a snowstorm to deliver a baby, and it is this level of commitment, care and compassion that I aspire to have. I have also found inspiration from my mum who is an ICU nurse and has always shared her experience and advice with me. This has been something that has resonated with me throughout my life and has always served as an inspiration.

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

The new graduate nurses (NGN) are faced with various issues and challenges especially in their first year of nursing practice. The period of transition from a student to a graduate nurse is a demanding period that is filled with new experiences and there are several concerns and factors that can affect the transition process. The research into the issues has recommended some strategies that can be utilised to ease the transition process from being a student to a professional practicing nurse. Exhaustion, reality shock and time management are some of the factors and issues that the new graduate might encounter during their first year in their career.

Watching someone die is a situation I will never get used to. I know it is part of life and part of nursing as well. I feel nurses help guide their patient’s in healing and even the end of life stages. Nurses are advocates the patients and offer a hand to help in comforting. Death can be uplifting knowing the patient is able to let go and they are no longer in pain. As someone passes, they look peaceful, relieved and happy which is a beautiful and heartbreaking all at the same time.

exaggerated. As the relationship matures, the cost-benefit analysis is recalibrated and the relationship reevaluated based on new measures and expectations (Cook & Emerson, 1978). The expectation of a salary increase for retaining their positions will encourage the new graduates to continue in their current positions, thereby improving retention rates.

Through personal student interviews, the phenomenon of undergraduate nursing students' experiences in the context of communicating the psychiatric patients was described. This pilot study suggests that one cannot fully understand the breadth and depth of this experience until one has lived the experience. This section reflects the findings of this pilot study in accordance with existing literature as previously reported. Practical implications for nursing within education and limitations will be discussed and will conclude with suggestions for future research.

Research is the systematic and rigorous process of enquiry which aims to describe phenomena and to develop explanatory concepts and theories (Bowling 1997). A research question should be feasible, of interest to the researcher, original, relevant and ethically sound (Sim and Wright 2000). Evidence based health care involves the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence about care of individual patients (Sackett et all 1996). In order to approach evidence based care in an evidenced based way the evidence available needs to be reviewed. A health care professional which practices in an evidence based way continues to improve their knowledge base and increase confidence and clinical decision making.

Nursing is one of the largest groups of healthcare providers giving high quality direct care in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and in home care. Due to vast reductions in nursing students, coupled with other challenges presented by a growing nursing shortage, this has resulted in fewer nurses working longer hours and caring for even sicker patients than before. This set of circumstances compromises the care of the patient and contributes to the nursing shortage by creating an environment that drives nurses from the bedside and into other professions or out of nursing, due to being burnout.

The College of Practical Nurses of Alberta (CLPNA) is a self-regulating organization that administers and enforces the framework of Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) in Alberta. The mission and mandate of the CLPNA is to provide the utmost level of care, while safeguarding Alberta healthcare users. Accordingly, the college oversees the standards, ethics and guiding principles required from SPNs and LPNs. The CLPNA ensures that healthcare professionals meet or exceed the proper level of education, have the necessary qualifications and are competent.

In life, there are multiple factors that can cause stress. Whether stress is caused by work, bills, family, or school, or even a combination of these, it is inevitable. School is a huge part of our lives and the pressure of doing well and balancing life can cause students to be overwhelmed with stress, anxiety and sometimes even depression. While school in general is stressful, there are many programs that have been shown to place a lot more stress and pressure on students. One of the programs is nursing school. Nursing students are challenged to attend multiple classes and clinical hours at a hospital weekly, complete assignments/projects/papers, study for exams (do well on the exams),

Frontier Nursing University (FNU) requires a three (3) day Bridge or Frontier Bound for all students. Students from all over the world travel to the FNU campus in Hyden, Ky. During my time at Bridge Bound, I learned important skills, information, and processes essential to the success of a Frontier Nursing University student. Additionally, friendships and bonds were created with fellow classmates and FNU faculty and staff. FNU utilizes a unique learning Model to facilitate distance education, the Community of Inquiry (COI). The COI is composed of three categories, social presence, teaching presence, and cognitive presence. The idea behind COI is that when all three areas are combined, a much deeper sense or learning takes place. My time

I decided to major in Nursing because I knew I always wanted a career in the health field, but I do not want to go to medical school. At least right now I do not want to, but that may change in the future. Nursing interests me because I would have options about what kind of nurse I want to be, who I want to work with and the setting I would like to work in. There are a lot of topics that interest me as a nursing major. I’m mostly interested in the hands on experience and actually doing the clinical trials. I’m interested in that because I know once I start that I’ll be one step closer to my degree and that means one step closer to being a Registered Nurse. The areas that I think I will have some difficulties in are the science classes unfortunately. Science has never been my best subject, but I know I’ll have to put more of an effort when it comes to those classes.

Beyond caring and compassion, a baccalaureate prepared nurse should also be knowledgeable, efficient, mentally strong, have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. First a nurse must be observant such as examining the patient mentally and physically before and after any procedure. Secondly, the nurse can apply his or her knowledge, in which they need to know exactly what, when, why and how to care for the patient. Since the nurses have numerous patients to care for, being efficient can prosper in delivering results with minimum errors. Being efficient does not mean that you accomplish more work in less time, but by communicating well with your unit, being organized, being a problem-solver, working in teams and learning to prioritize.

For example, we get stress from family, relationships, school-like having to give a speech in front of people, financial problems, and arguments, but for a lot of people, it’s WORK.

Nurses are especially vulnerable to several related effects of stress, such as burnout, job dissatisfaction, increased interpersonal problems, increased health complaints, disturbances in sleep patterns, as well as clinical depression and anxiety (Villani, Grassi, Cognetta, Toniolo, Cipresso, & Riva, 2013). The potential for stress can be reduced by resolving difficulties in the workplace promptly, addressing staff shortages, turnover and absenteeism, and developing clear objectives and plans (McIntosh, & Sheppy, 2013). Learning to manage and reduce stress by developing insight and coping strategies will help to maintain and promote nursing integrity and consistent patient care (McIntosh, & Sheppy, 2013).