Personal Narrative: The Four Pillars Of National Honor Society

I conduct assessment of neurological, integumentary, cardiovascular, respiratory systems, and patient mobility. Asses patient vital signs. Provide hygiene care on assigned patient. Document assessment, and vital sign, and care provided. It was intimidating, and maybe even frightening, my clinical experience offers me a learning opportunity to build the foundation of nursing education. I could not wait I was over enthusiastic. I had my black uniform wrinkles free and my black pair of nursing shoes ready to go. I had my: stethoscope, sphygmomanometer, penlight, note pad, black pen, and watch with second hand time. My clinical experience was at an long term care facility called Crestpark of Dewitt. I was there 07:45 sharp. The second day at clinical

When I was in elementary school, my grandparents would give me and my siblings twenty dollars if we made A-B Honor Roll. In 4th grade, we decided to treat our family by going to the movies, as we had not been to the movies in almost two years. Our idea was my sister and I would combine our forty dollars and buy the tickets and snacks, and we would have some nice family bonding. Until we met The Bike Woman, a homeless woman we encountered in the parking lot. She walked up to us, rolling her old blue bicycle alongside her and asked if we had any spare change. Without even thinking of it, we handed all forty dollars to her, along with three bottles of water we had in a cooler in the car. She thanked us profusely and even tried to give the money

Multiple experiences have better prepared myself for a future career in nursing. Within the last two years, I have volunteered at two large hospitals; job shadowed an intensive care nurse and developed several skills by working as a certified nursing assistant at Northshore Senior Day Center in Bothell, Washington. My experience at Northshore was a beneficial because there was a wide range of patients. Due to the diversity of patient conditions, I realized that each patient was unique and required different care. These experiences have influenced my decision to become a nurse, as well as my ultimate goal to become a nurse practitioner. The opportunity to work with the same patients was rewarding because I witnessed some overcome obstacles associated with their medical issues. Northshore helped me identify a weakness of my own, which was taking situations personally. For instance, while helping a patient go to the bathroom, she demanded to have another nursing assistant. Initially I felt rejected. With time I learned that when patients get upset; it usually is not about me. Hence, I am consciously working on taking things less personally because I will be dealing with distressed patients.

Coming to the University of Nebraska at Omaha, I did not know many people. College was a brand new experience with several opportunities to become involved. The organization, however, that started my involvement on campus was the Honors Student Association. This association opened the door for me to meet new people and assist with activities, not only on campus but around the community. I was able to attend the socials that took place and assist with the Distinguished Scholars Competition because of my involvement in this association. I am applying to become a representative because I want to further my experience and involvement with this great organization. Providing service to other students and community members is a huge part of

It was challenging for me to adapt to the new unique environment of Overland Park. Whenever I decided to go to JCCC, I wanted to continue being an over-achiever, so therefore my first semester of college I got admitted into the Honors Program. It was a huge achievement for me, but the biggest one would be officially attending college. Most of the students I went to high school with decided to only work because they thought about the right now moment and making money as soon as possible. Wyandotte students had a small imagination and didn't reflect on the end goal of being successful. I feel like the environment I live in made the people in Wyandotte County have a lot of restrictions and limitation. From that point on I made the chose that

not be freshman. There was just way too many people there. My graduating class was fifty-four so it was and is still a culture shock going to a school this large. Convocation was interesting to say the least. I read Dr. Khayat’s book, but was not especially entertained. My initial thoughts upon hearing about convocation were not thrilling. I went anyway and forced my roommate into going also. Dr. Khayat did not catch my intention right away. I thought he was just some old man that was going to lecture me about behaving for the next hour. Out of nowhere he started the Hotty Toddy chant. That is when he got my attention. After all, if a man of his age and

I never realized just how careful you have to be with people to make sure they do not fall over and hurt themselves of someone else.I met a bunch of different people over my first few weeks there. Starting at the beginning of the third week, I started to help do things in the operating room. I helped administer drugs into IVs and helped assist the doctor while he was doing surgery. I learned many life lessons who I was there: I saw one of the nurses give CPR to a man in the waiting room. If she had not been there to save his life he may have died. The main thing I learned while working there is life is not always what it seems to be in my small world. I grew up going to two private schools staying within East Memphis where nothing really happens. I did not realize how different it would be to meet so many people who do not come from the part of town that I live in. My experiences at Albright, Smith, & Peck made me want to tutor kids in Binghamton at Cornerstone Preparatory School. I also learned the simple lesson of never giving up. Some wisdom teeth are easy to get out but others not so much. Watching the doctor take out teeth taught me to not give

I am given many responsibilities and was expected to do them efficiently and correctly. Even though making a bed may sound simple, it requires multiple steps that have to be followed. For example, the sheets have to be folded a certain way and specific things need to be put on the bed before it can be rolled away. Refilling the supplies in each patient’s room helped make caring for the patient easier for the nurses and doctors. I am also able to have patient contact by tending to their needs such as giving them a drink, some crackers or even lending them my ear. Talking to patients made me learn to become a good listener and to hear their stories, experiences, and advice. On top of that, I am able to observe some surgeries in the operating room. The doctors and nurses had enough trusted in me to know that I would cause any distractions or disruptions. With my time spent up in ambulatory surgery, I have made some long lasting friendships with the

What I learned from my teammate, Hannah, was that Alce and Calixta actually met in Assumption and fell in love. However, they could not be together due to their very different social classes. I also learned that Bobint and Bibi were terrified to go home and face Calixta because of the way that Bibi looked. Surprisingly, Calixta was actually happy knowing they made it home safely.

My clinical experience was amazing. I got to see and learn many new procedures. I learned that nurses need to have many personal traits. They needed to be patience, friendly, positive, good listener, and more. These are many traits that a nurse should have. The nurses taught me, how to be patience and friendly with patients that are not cooperating or being friendly. I was able to learn how to take vital signs using a machine. In addition, I learned many different medications that helps and comforts the patient.

In the beginning I was introduced to the staff, and the floor. The staff was very kind and helpful in every way. They showed me what had to be done, how it had to be done, and when it had to be done. While there, I obtained an abundance of knowledge on the clinical setting. I did things from taking vital signs, checking in on the patients, and even things such as restocking. These may seem like little things to many, but the staff was very grateful that I was able to

As a volunteer, I was responsible for making sure patients were comfortable throughout their stay at the hospital. This required me to go door to door to patient rooms. At first, this process was awkward as I was unsure of the response that awaited behind the closed doors. With time, I learned that most

This was my first week at this site so I did an orientation of the hospital with my preceptor and talk about all the projects that I will be doing during 6 weeks of rotation. This week in the morning session I attended staffing with therapist and psychiatrist. I watched them discussing about their patients and deciding plans for other treatment. During this week, I learned how to do a cart fill for all the floors and helped technician with delivering those prescriptions to the unit. I could not recall any problem that occurred during this week.

My responsibilities were taking patients’ histories, doing physical examinations, performing EKGs, reviewing the patient medications, discussing the management plan and updating the electronic medical records, also I participated in inpatient rounds in the afternoon at Piedmont Hospital & Emory Midtown Hospital. It was a great experience working with nurses and helping them giving vaccinations and doing lab work. And from my interaction with the office staff, I learned more about medical billing and medical coding and this assisted me better understand the administrative work. My involvement in research at the same time had helped me applying the concepts of the scientific research in clinical medicine.

Watching how hard everyone at the LTC facility worked made the moments of laughter and free time so much sweeter. When I helped in the shower room I laughed until I cried and I realized that I wanted to stay. I realized my stomach wasn’t that weak when I followed the wound care nurse and watched her clean pressure ulcers, I loved passing meds and realizing that I had more knowledge in my head than I thought, I loved feeding people (strange isn’t it?) it’s a humbling experience for both me and the resident being fed, but it allowed me to practice reading nonverbal cues and talk to residents other than my patient. I loved being “chased” by a mischievous patient, smiled at, and given advice. I loved the people side of clinicals far more than the assessments. There are more tiny memories, patches that fill the holes that doubt and fear have left in my desire but this paper is going to be way to long if I include them in an articulate manner. So I’ll leave a little portion in my list