Personal Narrative: My Passion For Nursing

Technology has revolutionized society, including the practice of nursing. Today, nursing implements technology into their practice requiring both nurse practitioners and IT technicians. From desktop computers to portable laptops, smartphones, and tablets, this advancement allows nurses to work out of the office and on-the-go. This includes improving access to quality health care, an objective of the Healthy People 2020. (The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 2015) This objective involves many health communication and health IT that can create a positive impact on health and health care team, including the option for nurses to provide and help patients virtually with telehealth. It’s called telenursing.

I think nursing not only includes taking care of patients and helping out the doctors. I believe that there is some art to nursing as well, other than all the education and science involved of course. I believe that that caring is the essence of nursing, and that it should be viewed by the nurses as their moral ideal of preserving human dignity. This is to be done by helping the patients in finding some deeper meaning to their illnesses and suffering so that they are able to understand themselves better and are able to restore and promote their personal harmony and balance between the mind, body, and soul. Thus, I

I choose nursing as my future career because I enjoy working with others, helping others feel better, and educating people. These three topics are all involved in what nursing is. I believe that nursing is focused on the holistic care of individuals and their families in order to achieve and maintain an optimal level of health, a great quality of life, and comfort. This is done through the promoting healthy living, providing a safe environment, preventing illness, and the caring for the individual and the family.

Nursing has always been a natural choice for me. From the time I was a little girl I received satisfaction and enjoyment from providing care for my great-grandmother, ensuring my elderly neighbor wasn’t lonely, various forms of problem solving and all things science related. Compassion, care and critical thinking are merely

In this article a young, certified nursing assistant failed to follow the guidelines in properly transporting the resident into her bed. Sadly, the resident ended up falling and receiving bruises, and black eyes due to the negligence of the nursing assistant. Rather than getting the resident help right away she asked a coworker to lie for her and say she had helped her, in order to keep her out of trouble. The co-worker didn’t follow through with the lie and the nursing assistant ended up losing her job and is facing charges of a class e felony, and a misdemeanor, also losing her certification. Griffith, G. (2015, June 3rd) Nursing home aide arrested, arraigned for allegedly neglecting elderly resident.

“Every nurse was drawn to nursing because of a desire to care, to serve, or to help” (Feist-Heilmeier). Nursing is a job that is pursued purely based off of a person’s intention to help others. Nursing comes with many pros, cons, and hands on education that can be very time consuming and intense.

I chose to pursue a career in Nursing, because I’ve always been drawn to those in need. I want to provide care for my community as a way of giving back to humanity. I aspire to work within the community prolonging life, and promoting health through organized efforts and informed choices of society. My nursing philosophy is that nurses have a responsibility to the public to provide safe, holistic care.

The other day was one of my busiest days on the unit. The day started off looking that all of the other days. I received my patients, looked them up and began to plan the day with my mentor. We went to each room and handed out the group schedules and saw who was up and ready for an assessment and vitals. None of our patients were up yet, so we decided to go back to nurse’s station while letting them get a little more sleep. After sitting there for a bit, one of our patients sisters, who happens to also work on the unit, came up to us to express some concerns. The sister went on to say how she does not believe that her brother is ready for discharge and that she is concerned that he hasn't made enough progress here to be leaving. We told her

It is a profession that might have more bad days then good, and require you to do things out of your comfort zone. They are responsible for other’s lives, and it is the nurse’s job to give them the best healthcare available. The nursing domains do not work if one is missing, they work as a whole. Much like that, my personal philosophy on nursing has to do with holistic, patient-centered care. It allows examination of the entire client and their world when making healthcare decisions. Holistic care goes beyond just giving the medications or dressing a wound. It is giving care to the entire person and all that it entails, like family and friends, fears, and cultural beliefs. As I grow in the nursing program, I am sure my philosophy of nursing will change and get added too. Right now, I only know the surface of nursing and have yet to enter a hospital setting; however, as the years go on, hard work and the desire to increase my knowledge will help me develop my philosophy of nursing deeper and father. Nursing is a very special profession not everyone can do, and I am very grateful and excited to be headed down that

My current role in nursing includes caring for long term vented patients, for chronically critically ill or post-ICU patients. Currently, I work as an ICU RN at Select Specialty Hospital in collaboration with other team members, which includes respiratory therapists, certified nursing assistants, Nurse Practioners, and physicians. At select we ensure the highest level of care for this patient population. Specific responsibilities of my daily nursing care include, but are not limited to; patient admissions, discharges, and transfers from telemetry to our ICU unit, reviewing and carrying out physician orders, maintaining and titrating critical medications, and overall maintaining hemodynamic stability.

Typically, early morning phone calls on your birthday bring well wishes and kind words from friends and family, but that has not always been the case for my wife. Just before seven o’clock A.M. on her twenty-fourth birthday our telephone rang. It was not an old friend singing happy birthday, or our friends that we had plans with later that evening. The voice on the other end of the line was her father delivering news that would change Lisa’s life forever. Her mother was being rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. She had collapsed in the kitchen while cooking their breakfast. Judy remained unresponsive for one week and the decision was made to remove life support. She passed within hours of this decision, but the impact those few days had

I am going into the field of Nursing. I have always known I wanted to pursue a field that influences people’s lives daily. One year ago, a very close friend of mine tried to attempt suicide. He had posted on social media that he was going to try to kill himself, and sent me a goodbye message. I knew I had to intervene, and used my best judgement in how to approach the situation. I was at work, so I contacted my mother and asked her to just check and make sure things were going okay, since he lived right next door. I had just finished work, and rushed home. When I got home the ambulance was already on its way. My parents told me he had locked himself in his garage, and that he was drug out. I’ll never forget the moment I saw him lying

In my third year complex care clinical placement, I continuously involved in an environment that require time management and critical thinking skills. I allocated to care one to two patients postoperative or one patient if unconscious post-surgery. With not enough RN in the recovery area to supervise me especially when more than four patient in the recovery area that requires one on one care, I initiatively present myself for availability according to my scope of practice like for example, I can do paper work with RNs initial afterward and care for minor surgery or procedure patients in caring for their safety or removal of airway management. I always asked questions or clarifications with my preceptor if unsure in preventing any errors that could compromise patient’s outcomes.

One always try to find one main reason as to why they select a career, but I have found that the reason for my passion in nursing cannot be limited to one. Compassion, understanding, a listening ear, and willing to do all to make sure my patients are healthy and happy are all characteristics that I possess and believe are important for a nurse to have. All my life I always wanted to help people, so I decided to go into the Health field. I became a CNA and started to work in the field of nursing. Knowing that when I go to bed at night, I helped someone either by educating them or doing the necessary to make sure they are comfortable and feeling better completes my day. In high school I went into the medical program which allowed me to get an internship at a hospital and explore the many positions that the medical field had to offer.

Pre-nursing has always been a field that grabbed my attention. Simply the thought of saving another life is the world to me. I believe that being a nurse is way more than job it's a chance to save or help people and save lives. In nursing, many miracles can happen thanks to you, as a nurse. Nursing is a field where you can adventure out of your comfort zone and potentially giving a helping hand in finding a cure for cancer or some other type of disease. I feel that nursing is a field of greatness and way more. In a hospital nurses are the main people you turn to when you need help, they are the ones you see before a doctor. I believe they are as important as a doctor because they play a huge role in the hospital setting as well. When people ask me “what are you studying to becoming,” I say, “I am going to be a nurse” with a huge smile on my face. I am not even a nurse yet and I can already feel the pride when I say that to people. In my eyes, nursing is way more than a profession or a label it is a privilege that grants me the chance to either help or