Pediatric Safety and Quality

I define my philosophy of nursing within the three nursing domains of person, health, and environment. My goal is to communicate the importance of nursing as a knowledge-based career, depending not only on the nurse fulfilling her role but also on the patient’s compliance. A patient must learn to provide self-care at home in the same capacity as the nurse would provide care in the clinical setting. I discuss various subjects within nursing. I explain why I want to be a nurse, what I believe a nurse’s role is, the different domains of nursing, and where I believe nursing will be in the future. My philosophy demonstrates the interdependence of the nursing domains. You cannot fully evaluate a person without evaluating their health,

Van Gogh once said “your profession is what you’re put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling”. That is what nursing is to me. A passion that started early in life. During my senior year in high school, I completed the nursing assistant course over a holiday break in order to begin working as a certified nursing assistant at a local hospital and nursing home. I continued serving others, in this capacity, while I pursued higher education earning my Bachelors of Science in Nursing from Clarkson College. After graduation, I began my career as a Registered Nurse at Sacred Heart Hospital. Over the last nine years at Sacred Heart, my experience grew as a staff nurse on a Cardiology Step-down Unit,

I am pleased to state that I have been a registered nurse for forty years. At this moment, I continue working in nursing while pursuing my Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. My intended month of completion is October 2012. My experience in nursing education has motivated me to continue my education and pursue a Masters degree in a nursing related field commencing in 2013. Thus, in terms of my career planning, my education is a crucial part to my professional development. Extending and deepening one's education, especially within the career field of one's choice, can only bring upon additional professional opportunities as well as opportunities for personal growth. My career planning includes building upon my decades of experience in obstetrics, my particular area of specialty, expertise, and passion, with the assistance and addition of higher education. I believe in terms of career planning, my strengths include foresight, preparation, internal motivation, and focus.

Nursing is a noble profession that will help me expand my horizon by letting me focus outside of myself and my self-interest. By focusing outside of myself, I will get to be an advocate for people’s health and a humanitarian who will have a chance to see the other aspect of medical

My passion out of hundreds of careers in the U.S is to pursue a career in Nursing. I choose this career because l believes in the change that Nurse brings to help make the world a better place. To fully comprehend the changes Nurses are creating in our society today and why I ‘am passionate about been part of the revolution, one has to look at the role they play in enhancing healthcare service. Nurses play an essential role as the first line of defense for health wellness and information. In addition steeping into someone’s life at their lowest moment and making a difference to their overall experience is an incredible privilege. Mahatma Gandi once said, "the best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others. Hopeless

For this paper, there are 2 interviews required that are related to the nursing careers. The two interviews that were conducted were from a Charge Nurse, and from a Head Nurse. Each of the interviews are discussed in detail below, separately.

Being a nurse not only means compassion, dedication, and intelligence, but the profession also requires endurance, personal sacrifice, and the need for continuous education. I have learned that nurses are some of the most caring and selfless people that anyone will ever meet. Nurses are more than willing to complete challenging tasks and care for others in a way that the majority of people are unwilling to. I am driven to bring all of these qualities into my role as a future nurse practitioner, which is why I am committed to pursuing my Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP).

“Why do you want to be a nurse?” A question that has been asked more times than can

My personal nursing mission statement is changing and developing as my career advances, however, one core piece will remain constant. I will strive to provide the best, safest, most ethical and compassionate nursing care that I can for all patients and family members with whom I come in contact. I began my post-high school academic career as an accounting major. I enjoyed the challenge of manipulating a report until I had balanced. I thought I had found my calling. As my first semester was nearing an end, I found myself contemplating the thought of sitting behind a desk all day. I wondered

The greatest aspect about nursing is that it is never going to be just a job and is even more than a merely profession. Instead, it is a belief system or way of life and not a discipline that can simply be practiced then abandoned to the dictates of a time clock. To simply say that “I love people” or want to “help people get better” does not demonstrate the drive behind this feeling. Articulating my philosophy is not an easy task, to better explain my philosophy of nursing, I am going to use some values that I have learned. These tools truly explain how I feel and what has motivated me to pursue nursing as a career.

For my interview I met with H.R. who has her BSN, and is currently working to complete her degree as a Family Nurse Practitioner. She has been a nurse for three years, most of which has been spent working in surgery in a large hospital. She also hopes to further her education and eventually be teaching future nursing students. The purpose of this paper is to provide an outside view of how someone sees the Nursing profession as a whole.

Pursuing a career that allows me to enhance people’s wellbeing has always been my strong desire and by becoming a nurse, l feel will enable me to fulfil this. Nursing is considerably a challenging and yet a demanding profession, therefore will require various skills which l believe l have in order to embark on this career and make a difference in people’s lives.

The world is constantly changing as the future draws nearer. By being a nurse, I have the ability to change lives and make major impacts on the lives of people and the world in a medical aspect. I know in my heart that it is my calling to become a nurse, to lead this world into the future. Being a nurse will be a challenge, but I am ready for that challenge. I have been ready for a long time to take on my role as a world changer, a listener, a healer, and a friend to those with needs, a nurse. I have chosen to pursue a career in nursing because it fits my essence of being, will allow me to accomplish my professional goals, and will allow me to practice a career with which I am irreversibly enthralled.

Nurses have an eminent position in a community. They have the knowledge and power to save, heal, and comfort a person. They help people reach desirable aspects of life. Nurses in essence are human healers. They are the ones most people look to, to alleviate their problems and issues. They have the ability to influence many in a positive way. Nursing is also a diverse and multifaceted profession. One can expand their skills in many different ways. A nurse’s influence and specialized skills lured me into the profession.

Modern nurses sit at the forefront of a profession that has changed dramatically in recent decades and has the opportunity to continue evolving as time moves forward. The work and effort of current and early nurses has paved the pathway of opportunity for new nurses and nursing students. Nurses are given the chance to define who they are within the profession. Nursing is not simply a subordinate role to physicians, but a vocation with a unique set of theories, principals, and a broad scope of practice. Finding one’s calling among those practices is akin to picking a major as a freshman in college. To do so, it is important to analyze and discover various aspects of oneself and how they mold them into a professional nurse.