Transition Into A New Career

“The American Nurse” movie was an amazing representation of what it means to be a nurse. An example of how the nurse and environment impacted the delivery of care was in the military nurse story. First, when he was a medical while deployed for three years, the environment was very different. He didn’t see ambulances and he had to work with the supplies he had to help the soldiers. Once he came back to the US, he also worked with military who were wounded in war or have mental issues. In this situation the nurse impacted the quality of care. He would go into soldier’s homes and talk to them about their experiences if they needed to. He made a great impact on the soldiers that came home. One things that seemed to help the soldiers was that they knew the nurse had also served in the military. He understood what they went through. Another example of this is with the prison nurse. The nurse would go into work every day knowing that her patients were in prison for a reason. But, she put that aside and treated them like every other patient she has ever had. She made the patients feel better and the patients trusted her.

Care and culture are the key constructs that make up the Culture Care Theory. This theory differed from other nurses’ work or mindset because nurse leaders relied heavily up on the four metaparadigm concepts of person, environment, health, and nursing to explain nursing (McFarland and Wehbe-Alamah, 2015). Leininger realized that those four metaparadigm concepts were to limited in its scope regarding nursing and culture and care ideologies. Interestingly, care and culture were excluded from the metaparadigm. “It is not logical to use nursing to explain nursing” (McFarland and Wehbe-Alamah, 2015). That is definitely a contradiction in terms and represents scholarly research

The Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model was developed for undergraduate nursing students in 1988 by Joyce Newman Giger and Ruth Davidhizar. The assessment model provides a framework for nursing students to easily assess and provide care for patients from many different cultural backgrounds. Six cultural aspects are highlighted: communication, time, space, social organization, environmental control, and biological variations (Giger & Davidhizar, 2002).

Once they arrived in the war zone, Army, Navy, and Air Force nurses experienced professional strains of working with young, severely wounded casualties who were often younger than them. A Navy nurse recalled,

Remote communities such as those in northern Canada consistently experience a shortage of healthcare providers (HCP) including nurses (Place, Macleod, Moffitt & Pitblado, 2014). Due to the cultural and geographical uniqueness of these areas, challenges are inevitable, however, it can be undoubtedly rewarding. Nurses can particularly gain valuable experience regarding the importance of cultural competence and its implementation.Therefore, this paper will discuss the context of northern Canadian communities as well as three challenges and three benefits faced by nurses working there. Considering the populations in these communities are culturally diverse, it is especially essential for the nurses to have the appropriate cultural knowledge and skills in working with these populations. Consequently, we will also explore the definition of cultural competence, other terms used to describe this concept and how nurses can ensure they have the necessary cultural competence to work with these communities.

Because the effects of multiple deployment is a nascent topic, it is becoming increasingly important to look at how the survivors f the hostile environments can be made to feel at home and connect with the environment, the health care environment without feeling slighted or overlooked. Some of the most important nursing qualifies include autonomy, assertiveness, advocacy and accountability. Above all, it is important to look at how the veterans can be helped

The Hmong are a clan based, patriarchic culture. Within the clans there is much diversity, with each clan having its own group identity and traditions. The language has a long oral history and very new, 1095’s, written form. The family structure consists of multiple generations in one household, with the elder male being the main dissension maker. The nurse must be familiar with generalities of the Hmong culture and be able to ask patients and their families of the cultural beliefs and decision making.

1. This year, my community nursing placement is at Donview Middle School Health and Wellness Academy. It is a fairly large Middle School with over 400 students, 19 classrooms and 29 teachers (N. Vohra, personal communication, September 9, 2014). As the name of the school suggests, Donview focusses on the health and wellness of its students. However, was not always a Health and Wellness Academy, Donview has only recently been changed into a Health and Wellness Academy. The school is located in a quiet residential area of North York with the building itself being fully equipped with lockers, a cafeteria, a gym, a large outdoor field and a fitness studio. The school has been in this location since the 1970’s (V. Bradbury, personal communication, September 16, 2014).

It broadened the nurses’ sense of the world, and “it is a crucible of humanity in which participants are given the opportunities to witness and understand extremes in human behavior” [5]. Nurses realized that the world lives like this the terrible poverty and the war all around them. They learned to live and work with people of different ages, religions, sexual orientations, and races [6]. On the other hand, many nurses suffered mental trauma after leaving Vietnam. Many of nurses suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder [7]. Numerous nurses experienced flashbacks and reminders of things they wished to forget. When military nurses came back, they were “viewed by many as a murderer instead of a healer, felt isolated and angry”. Nurses have to deal with a lifetime of sadness, loss, and pressure in one

When Americans speak about the Iraq war, they mention the number of soldiers, the number of casualties, and the enemy that we fought. People fail to recognize the importance of the “Angels of the battlefield”, the nurses. Nurses were a crucial piece of our military because they cared for our wounded soldiers. This, in turn, reduced the number of casualties as a cause of the war. For my research paper, I will find the effects of the Iraq war on Nurses. I will speak on the roles and experiences of nurses during and after the Iraq war during 2003 all the way to 2011. I will first speak on the different roles that nurses had. This will include the different levels of modern combat care, and statistics about the nurses. Next, I will examine the experiences that the nurses had

In my early forties, I was given a second chance to choose a career. I was laid off from my workplace of 18 years due to a slump in the oil industry. I started working with an employment agency to perfect my resume and come up with creative ways that my skills transferred to other industries, but my heart wasn’t in it. My job had meant to be a short-term pit-stop on my way to realizing my true purpose, one that got too comfortable. This was an opportunity for me to select a meaningful career that I could be proud of.

Nursing transitioned into a “professional” culture through events like the Northwest Rebellion, World War I and II, the creation of formal training models, and the unionization of the nursing profession. While many of these changes were positive, the often came from a negative event which would act as the catalyst for the change to occur. Nurses utilized negative events to be the catalyst for change so that nursing could become the formal profession which is known and respected today.

Before Arizona College my situation was not so great, I was at a dead end job for 5 years and had a family of 5 to support and financially I was not happy. I always kept telling myself I needed to go back and finish nursing school as I had intended to do back in 2010. Ever since high school I have been seeking to go back to nursing school but life kept getting in the way. Then in 2011 tragedy struck my life when my mom passed away unexpectedly then in 2015 my dad passed away. Before my dad had passed I had promised him I would go back to school and become a nurse. After that the doors started opening up and that’s when I got accepted into the nursing program at Arizona College

According to Mondy and Noe (2005), career is a job that has been chosen to be accomplished during one’s working life. Career is the progress and actions of the person’s occupations or sequence of jobs held by someone throughout a lifetime which is until that person end up the careers. Most of the situations, people do not just referring to one position only but often looking for another jobs which composed of the jobs held, titles earned and work accomplished over a long period of time. There is an increasing trend to employees changing jobs more frequently, while employees in some cultures and economies stay with one job during their career. For example, an individual's career could involve being an engineer, though the

According to Murphy (2011), cultural competence is having the “knowledge, attitudes, and skills that support caring for people across different languages and cultures” (p.5). It is important to be cultural competent when providing nursing care for patients because you never know who will be laying in the bed. As a nurse, you will have to care for people from all walks of life no matter where you work. In this paper, I will be discussing the similarities and difference between the cultures in Mexico and Nigeria. Mexico is located in North America, just south of the United States. Nigeria is located in West Africa.