Reflection Essay

1. My first goal that I would like to see personal growth on as a nurse is with my communication skills when talking to a patient. I would like to have a caring and helpful relationship with my patient. I want to improve my verbal and nonverbal communication skills so that I appear as if I know what I am taking about, and that I ensure that my facial expressions and body posture are appropriate for the situation.

Having a plan for continued professional growth is very important in any field especially in nursing. Developing goals along with the plan is crucial to enhance my professional growth in my career. My first goal is to graduate with my bachelor degree from Frostburg State University by December, 2017 by following the progression plan approved by my school advisor. I also need to enhance my nursing political knowledge and evidence based nursing practice to be the best nurse I can be because the nursing profession is based on research and evidence-based practice. I also will need to use my time management skills to prevent getting overwhelmed. “Time management skills can be a valuable tool in stress reduction and may result in improvement in the

No one said leading was easy, and in the book, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, John C. Maxwell addresses the principal of transformational leadership, and how there is more than one aspect in becoming a successful leader. Leadership is one of the many desirable qualities in becoming successful not only in everyday life, but also in nursing. This paper will discuss ways to develop into an effective, successful leader, the necessary steps to increase leadership ability, and how leadership can affect personal growth in nursing practice.

My professional goals are to become a well-rounded, knowledgeable nurse who is competent in many fields of nursing. I feel that this

I chose Effective Leadership and Management in Nursing to read for my interpersonal project. As a pre-nursing student, this book helped me to understand concepts we learned in class and how they apply more specifically to my major. A section I found applied most to me both as a student and a future nurse is titled “Stress and Time Management”.

Goal setting is one of the first steps to being successful. My goal is to make it through the RN

The wind is blowing 30mph, the snow is falling heavily, and your change of shift nurse calls in and says she can’t get out of her driveway. This can test the true self-management of how a nurse handles stress. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how nurse leaders and managers can handle stress and time through self-management. The main points this paper will discuss are the definitions of self-management, time, and stress, sources of stress, signs of stress, strategies to manage stress, time management concepts, and how self-management relates to nurse leaders and managers. This topic is very important to nurses because “nursing is a stressful job that has excess and prolonged stress that can lead to distress, burnout, or physical illness for the individual.” (Wright, 2014).

Is the glass half full or half empty is a question that many people ask themselves to determine whether they are more optimistic or pessimistic. It is easy to see every glass as half empty, but with a change in your mindset, you can see every glass as being half full. At every football game, cheerleading competition, and band competition, having an optimistic mindset has helped me have a lot more fun than I would have had with a pessimistic mindset.

Based on the assessment and diagnosis, the nurse must set measurable and achievable short- and long-range goals for the patient that might include maintaining adequate nutrition by eating smaller, more frequent meals, transferring from bed to chair at least three times daily; managing pain through adequate medication, or even resolving conflict through proper counseling. Assessment data, diagnosis, and goals are written in the patient’s care plan so that nurses as well as other health professionals caring for the patient have access to it. At the beginning of my career, these were things I had to learn to do in an orderly and timely

At the start of interviewing my father, Henry, about maturing into adulthood while in college, he sat down wearing his usual thick glasses, blue starched polo shirt, fresh boot-cut jeans, and bright facial expression; he wanted to share his past with his son in hopes of teaching me lessons from his experiences. When I asked questions, he, as always, answered with much confidence. I soon came to realize that this trait was caused by his college days where he obtained self-reliance. To understand his journey, we must observe the phases that took him to his current state.

When the school year first started, I thought English class in junior year would be easy based on my performance in sophomore Honors English. However, AP English Language and Analysis has proven to be a difficult and rigorous course. I had struggled both as a student and as a writer in the beginning of the year, but I had learned to recognize several chronic problems I had made in my writing. Through the past school year, my writing skills had matured as I strived to fix issues in my writing. The improvements in my writing skills can best be seen through the growing conciseness, fluency, and analytical thinking in my essays.

I have learned a great deal of materials in Dr. Wise AAPS. class, we readied the county and wrote reflections about topics pertaining to literature, technology, and literacies. This allowed me to become a better critical thinker because her course requires us to analyze and reflect on yourself as individuals more than just giving a brief summary on our paper .After taking this course for about 6 months, I have realized that it had made a significant change in my life that i need as a african american man. When I am attending in classes such as political science or nutrition, not only am I understanding the readings better than before but I am also analyzing the information, forming my own thoughts (at times I even present my ideas to the members in class), and incorporating ideas from the past to increase the literacy towards the topic that I would’ve given up in the past. I value the qualities the AAPS course gifts to the students because it has improved me as a student, learner, and as an active member in the society we live in today.

Practicums are a time to put into practice what we as pre-service teachers have learnt in theory. This experience can be challenging and rewarding all at the same time as it makes a pre-service teacher face both their strengths and challenges as an individual and an educator. Lesson planning can be time-consuming during the hours when one is not teaching but makes the teaching time run more smoothly. There are standards that graduate teachers need to adhere to and relationships with mentors, children, families and colleagues to establish all in such a short time.

Today’s nurse leadership is practiced in a very complex environment. This leads to the potential for moral distress arising from constrains in achieving optimal goal. (Edmonson,2010).Time management is indispensible to successful results since it enables a leader plan and organize each day’s activity to achieve the best results within a specific period .

As I approach the end of my first semester freshman, I have learned so much regarding these next four years and beyond though my goals and aspirations are still the same. Even the few people I have met have changed my perception drastically. Through exploration on campus, University of North Carolina at Charlotte has shown me what it has to offer regarding my major and preparation for my future career and I have been reaffirmed that I made the right decision.