Personal Narrative: Adapting To Change In Nursing

The world of nursing has evolved tremendously over the years. It will continue to change on a daily basis, in an attempt to better it. Adapting to change should become a normal thing for all nurses because it happens all the time. All nurses have their own “ideal shift” and how they believe things should go. Each director or even lead nurse handles situations differently. In this paper I will discuss my vision of nursing in the future, adapting to changes, and how I would handle certain situations if I was in a nursing leadership position.
Adapting to Change After completing nursing school, I began working at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina in the Pediatric Float Pool. I float between the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Progressive Care Unit, pediatric hematology and oncology unit, pediatric medical surgical unit, and the Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Unit. Adapting to change has become second nature to me and I have become a professional at it. One of the biggest challenges when I first began was starting off on a regular unit and then going to the intensive care units. It was a huge shock to me and a totally different environment. I always just took a step back and re-grouped in each different situation I encountered. …show more content…
Everyone knows most of that is not going to happen. I believe the nurse to patient ratios and increased demand on getting patients length of stay has become a huge problem when it comes to turnover and burnout in nursing. Cho, Park, Jeon, Change, and Hong (2014) stated that due to the increased demand and turnover, it is affecting nurses stress, fatigue, sleep habits, and overall job