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Reflecting On Myself For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to work in healthcare. From wanting to work with babies, to now wanting to work with geriatrics, I knew this field was meant for me. My junior year of high school was when I decided I no longer wanted to be a pediatrician because I did not want to go to school for ten plus years after I graduated high school. Also, my junior year was when I took Health Careers, which was a C4 class offered at my high school. I was able to receive my CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) through the class. When my class started going to our clinical sites that the following semester, I automatically clicked with the residents. I felt like I built this special bond with the elderly. This …show more content…

Before taking this course, I did not have much knowledge about professionalism. I always pictured being professional as having to wear suits and carry a briefcase. Therefore, I have gained quite a lot of knowledge throughout this course. From the evolution of professional nursing to the contemporary roles of nursing, I have learned the importance of the image of a nurse. "It is important that the public trusts and believes in the nurse and the profession the nurse represents" (Cherry and Jacob, 2014). To set an image for myself, I must dress appropriate for my profession, by showing the world how serious I am about my profession. Another thing that I have learned is that there are many legal issues in nursing and health care. Knowledge of the law enhances the nurse 's ability to provide safe, effective, and humane care in all settings (Cherry and Jacob, 2014). However, I have also learned more into depth about the importance of HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). HIPAA is a federal law that gives people rights over their own health information and sets rules and limits on who can look at and receive their information (Summary of the HIPAA Privacy Rule, 2009). Before I was only familiar with the basics of HIPAA, such as you do not use or share a patient 's private information with anyone without the patient 's permission. Now that I have almost completed this course, I have learned more about HIPAA. By violating HIPAA, there are possible

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