Hello friends, i really need your help and support. We are required to make our own articulation about Nursing. Here's my output, please do help me checking these if it's okay or not. I would really appreciate your efforts to help me. thanks a lot.
1. Why did you decide to enter the nursing profession?
Why nursing profession is a question that seems to be a piece of cake, but for me it's more than just a superficial "why," it's a "why" that required me to dig deep down the innermost layer of my heart.
I was a little girl then with a mind full of dreams, dreams that are the fountain of my hopes and inspiration. Looking back to my childhood years, when asked, "What do you want to be when you grow up?," one of my answers was "I want to be a Nurse". For some reasons, honestly, I cannot figure out clearly and concretely the reason behind why I wanted to be one. It's a strange feeling, like a soft voice whispering through my ears, like a fist knocking through my heart.
My hankering for nursing profession was ignited clearly and fiercely early in my high school years, during which I took care of my mother in the hospital as she gave birth to another gem of our family. I love her so much and so during her stay in the hospital, I really made it sure that she was safe and was being taken care of by nurses appropriately. As I looked back, I can see myself as an effortless observer inside the hospital. The way nurses addressed the needs of my mother and other patients - their caring action, their encouraging smiles in spite of toxicities in the ward and the sweat running through their faces, their friendly conversation, their comforting touch, and helpful hands do captured my attention. And unknowingly, they already made a mark in my mind and heart. Through the care and attention they have shown me and my mother I have grown to realize that I have a passion to do with my life what they have done for us, which is to care for and touch others lives, especially the poor. I want to make a difference to leave a positive impact on the lives I touch. As I told myself, "Magiging nurse din ako, kagaya nila. Aalagaan ko ang mga taong nangangailangan ng tulong ko at ipaparamdam ko sa kanilang may karamay sila."
2. How do you define Nursing?
Nursing is a calling, and being a nurse is definitely my calling.
As I went down the road of nursing profession, I have been exposed to various learning experiences - both classroom and clinical settings. I have read a lot of books. I have heard various sounds of voices - voices of happiness and sadness, pain and comfort, and success and failures. I have witnessed how life begins and ends. I have cared for a newborn who was just beginning to savor the gift of life; and to a "lola" who was about to return the gift of life she owed. I have gone through many sleepless nights. I have showered to tears of joys and pains. I have known myself better - what are my latent abilities and potentials - and have cultivated them. Most of all, I was able to touch others' lives giving me the sense of fulfillment I never experienced before.
The training I had in the nursing school was full of adventures. It's a journey full of thrills on its own, a life-long learning process that I commence on undauntedly each day. To become a nurse takes tons of discipline. As my professor in college said, "It doesn't take a genius to become a nurse, it takes diligence." Nursing is indeed challenging, as they say "it's about the survival of the fittest," yet what made it more challenging to me is the fact that it's about life. And until now, it never failed to challenge me; it never failed to surprise me; it never failed to bring out the best in me. Each experience I have been encountering made me realized that life is really the most precious gift a person can ever have. It's priceless. And as a nurse, it's of my utmost responsibility and accountability to take good care of it.
All these boil me down to my realizations: Nursing is more than just a job; it's more than just a mere profession. It's an amazing profession with great responsibilities and opportunities. It's a commitment to providing safe and quality health care. It's a commitment to upholding and protecting patients' rights. Nursing is nurturing, it's a unique way of improving people's lives and making a difference. It's a confluence of compassion and respect for people; it's a cradle of love for life. By being a nurse, I can be my patient's eyes, I can be his ears, I can be his voice, I can be his hands, and I can be his feet. It's the ultimate culmination of my worth as a human being given the privilege to live. It's the blood that is pumped by my heart and flowing through my arteries and veins every day. It's my commitment to God. It's a calling, it's definitely my calling. Nursing is indeed my life.
3. What style (s) of nursing do you use and why do you feel it is effective?
I believed that the best tool I can use in serving other people especially those who are in need is myself. And to be able to use myself accordingly and be more effective in anything that I do, I should understand myself better - the way I think, what are my beliefs and principles, and where my values are in reference to others as well as my personal strengths and weaknesses, and that is self-awareness.
As they say, a nurse will always be a nurse, and I strongly believed on it. Whether I have my apparatus on my hands or not, still, I am a nurse. I believed that nursing is not just about performing different procedures; it's about being with my patients - walking and talking with them. It allows them to feel that I truly care for them, and I believe that brings a difference in their full recovery.
As a nurse I am committed to providing holistic care to my patients. I believed that they deserve to be treated as a whole person, not just a diagnosis of their medical condition. Addressing all aspects of their health makes them feel my sincerity in my practice. And this in return, makes them an active participant of the health care team.
As a nurse I am committed to enhancing my communication skills and utilizing them in the practice of my profession. I believed that effective communication plays a key role in health care delivery system and is indeed a skill that I (we, nurses) should have. A break in communication process can cause tremendous problems - wrong assessments/data may be obtained, treatments, medications, etc. may be missed. And all these bring negative consequences on the overall health of the patient. On the other hand, effective communication facilitates good working relationship between the nurse and the patient, the patient's family, with colleagues and other members of the health care team; and this assures proper care is being provided.
4. How do you wish to be remembered by your patient?
Nurses are one of the most needed and most valuable figures of society. Unfortunately as we all know, there is a dearth of nurses now both in the national and global perspectives. This scarcity is not because only few are entering the profession, actually there are thousands of us, but I think it's because our value is often neglected by the government - "walang tamang trabaho, walang tamang sweldo."
This present situation in our society is one of our major concerns as nurses. Nevertheless, I have a promise to fulfill and this will not hinder me from doing what am I supposed to be doing, may it be in the clinical field or academic setting.
In spite of toxicities and tons of works, I am dedicated to be the great nurse I can be, whatever the situation is. Being the great nurse means my patients/students are entitled to my whole being, they deserve what is best for them and so it's of utmost responsibility. I wish to be remembered as a compassionate, empathetic, and selfless nurse.
Being a compassionate nurse, I believed that patients generally are not in the hospital because they wanted to be there. They and their families are frightened of losing their health and what's worst of losing their lives. They need nurse' undivided attention and genuine support.
Being an empathetic nurse, I believed that patients need someone to talk to and someone who will listen to them without being judged. I can be their true friend or their supportive families who is ready to understand the challenges they are going through.
Being a selfless nurse, I believed that I am blessed by God so I can be a blessing to others too. As the Bible says in Philippians 2:4, "Do not merely look out for your personal interests, but also for the interest of others."
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