To Complete My Hours For This Course, I Decided To Have

Soon after, I received my licensure and began working at The Queen's Medical Center as a Registered Nurse (RN) in early part of 1994. Since becoming a RN, I have provided care to a great deal of patients and reassured countless numbers of family members. As a RN, I've also become the coordinator of care, patient advocate, and teacher to the patients I cared for while serving as the eyes and the ears of the physicians. As with any human, I enjoyed sharing the laughter with my patient and cringed at site of their pain and despair. For these reasons, I believe that being a RN is a great career choice for me. However, for these same reasons, I still feel that I am not a complete nurse; hence I've decided to go back to school and try to earn my Bachelor in Science Degree in Nursing

For this assignment I was able to interview Regina Bowman RN, BSN. Her current position is that of the Director of Medical Surgical Nursing. Her position places her over top of seven nursing units between two facilities. Regina graduated from the Mercer Medical School of Nursing in 1979 with her diploma in nursing. The Mercer medical school of nursing is still in operation although it has been renamed the Capital Health School of Nursing. Her return to school started after graduation. She enrolled at Mercer County Community College to obtain her Associates. Secondly she attended La Salle University and received her Bachelor’s in Nursing in 2003. Lastly she is currently enrolled at the Thomas Edison State University, and has a

These classes have given a wonderful educational experience. They have taught us how to work as a Nurse, what to do and what not to do in the work environment, it has given us an early experience that we probably would have had until college. The importance of this program is that it prepares you and helps you understand the basics of this

The nurse I chose to interview has been a family friend for a while, as she has worked closely with my mother for several years. She is the first nurse I met when I decided I was interested in going into the nursing field, and she is actually the person who encouraged me to apply to Truman State University’s nursing program. I was confident that she would be able to share her capacity of nursing knowledge and wisdom with me when I asked if I could interview her. I will expand on our interview which took place in her office at work throughout the next couple of pages, and to keep confidentiality, I will allude to her by her initials, J.W.

Institute of Medicine (IOM) calls on nurses take a great role in the future. It suggested nurses to pursue continuing education and recommended the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree should reach to 80% and double the number of nurses with a doctorate, by 2020. IOM recommended that nursing school, health care organization, should cooperate and ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning to obtain the competencies needed to implement care for various populations across the lifespan. (Report Recommendations - Institute of Medicine. n.d.). I graduated from a community college with an associate degree in nursing, in 2014. To meet the recommendation and the market needs, I enrolled GCU RN to BSN program. In Oct.17, I joined the Grand Canyon University commencement ceremony, the following Monday, I got two phone call from two employers, for interviewing me. And the same week, on the Wendsndy, I have been hired. I choose

My career commitment as a nurse has grown tremendously over the past three years; through my daily experiences as a Medical Assistant. I have devoted my time as a full time student and employee of the health care profession. Both of these occupations have helped shape me into the person I want to be for as long as time allows. Daily I witness these community role models that posses abilities such as problem solving skills, promotion and protection of an individual’s advocacy all tied in with compassion to meet the health care needs of an individual.

A combination of these experiences and his educational background of a Diploma in Nursing, a Bachelor’s degree in Health Care Management and a Masters in Corporate and Public Communication inspired my curiosity on understanding what sparked Amber’s will to be such an all-around person in the nursing profession. Amber said “to grow, one has to be willing to work hard. Nursing is beyond a gentle touch.” This phrase gave me the understanding that nursing requires considerate exposure to all the life aspects. With that understanding, one can treat patients and fellow medical professionals well. One gets to understand everything that affects their professional life, and life outside the workspace.

Going to shadow an actual nurse helped me learn about my career a lot more. It made me think

My passion for healthcare cultivated because of my family. Throughout my childhood and adolescent years, I got an opportunity to volunteer helping around the nursing home where my mother worked as a licensed practical nurse. Looking back, on those experiences influenced my entire career in so many diverse ways. Learning ample amounts of wisdom from various honorable people. As a child I was always trying to help my mother, grandmother, aunts, my church take care of others in our family and the community. Once I graduated from high school I did not know if I was prepared for college. Likewise, I was not sure if I wanted to become a registered nurse and follow my mother’s footsteps. However, I did attend a technical training school and became a certified nursing assistant in 2005. During my five year gap year, I conducted research on several different areas and aspects of healthcare. Over the course of ten years I have had the opportunity to experience different segments of healthcare. From the different settings of healthcare, exploring different business opportunities offered in healthcare, and educational and technical skill trainings. These three topics really influenced my decision to pursue a healthcare career.

Becoming a health care professional of any kind is much more than just getting good grades in high school. It takes years of hard work, a lot of college, and dedication. To become a registered nurse (RN), one must be a problem solver. Any good nurse will need to have an advanced set of critical thinking skills, as well as an understanding of their patient’s needs, even when that patient does not necessarily voice their wants or needs. A nurse must also be compassionate. Nursing is much more than just intelligence and schooling. Success of being a registered nurse will begin with multiple long schooling hours, very tedious work skills, and the basic knowledge and satisfaction that someone’s life was improved because of the previous years of hard work.

I enjoyed taking this course. Looking back to week one, I was also placed in a similar situation where I wanted to contribute more to my community, my patients and to nursing. I love being a nurse, but I wanted to take on more of a leadership role. When I decided to go to graduate school, I knew I did not want to work in administration. I still wanted to take care of my patients. I chose Family nurse practitioner because this role will place me in a leadership position and I will still be able to care for my patients. As an NP I will have the freedom of autonomy in caring for my patients (Weiland, 2015).

Following graduation, I worked in a primary care clinic for just over one year, and truly loved caring for patients as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP). Earlier this summer, however, I felt compelled to use my FNP in a different capacity, and began to contemplate a transition to education. Nursing education is another underserved area of health care, and one to which I had always felt drawn. After much consideration, I made the decision to teach nursing at Fort Hays State University.

The transition from the associate degree in nursing to bachelor’s degree in nursing started for me in 2015. I had delayed acquiring the BSN degree due to family commitments. Upon admission into the University of Arlington, Texas for the online RN-BSN program, the first course l registered for was called transition to professional nursing. This class open me up to the meaning of a career or a vocation in nursing. Masters (2014), stated philosophies set for the general meaning of nursing and nursing phenomena through reasoning and the logical presentation of ideas. (Masters, 2014, p. 49). This helped to give me direction on my values, beliefs, and justice, when caring for people in my profession. This helps me to be better able to focus on each

Many of times people switch out of medical careers; largely potential nurses. It’s not until a person undergoes rigorous classes and field experience that one truly learns the hardships, strains, and ugly sides of the career. However, those people who leave fail to see the beautiful side of it as well. Mary J is a nurse who stayed with her profession even to her move to the Scottish country side. I identified with her determination in her career, her love and dedication to her family, her connection to nature, and finally, the integration of her and her family to a place where outsiders were rarely welcomes; she said herself she might have been a “contaminant” to the countryside. When it comes to things I am passionate about I am often determined

Next I interviewed one of my neighbors who just happened to be free that day. I asked Ms. B the same question, and she replied with, “I think nursing is a nice field. I’ve been to the hospital serval times throughout my life so far. And I’ve had some really nice nurses. I think they are really caring and spend more time with their patients than doctors, at least from my experiences. I also see some movies and television shows about nursing such as Nurse Jackie and Greys Anatomy but I’m not sure how much of it is actually true and maybe just for