A Character of Resilience
Education is a privilege that not everyone in the world gets to experience. One purpose of education is to teach you the knowledge and skills upon which you can build a career. Arguably, a more important purpose of education is to develop one’s character and shape them into outstanding members of the community. As a nursing major, I have the unique opportunity to learn both in the classroom and outside the classroom in a clinical setting. The clinical setting offers a wide variety of learning experiences, allowing you to expand your knowledge and hone your skills while still under the watchful eye of instructors. In the clinical setting, you are daily working with patients and their families, as well as members of …show more content…
I learned this first hand last semester while on my clinical rotation at a local nursing home. Working in a nursing home allowed me to further develop my problem solving and critical thinking skills and required me to use them more than I had ever before. I was required to quickly assess a situation and make a judgment call about what actions to take. I had an encounter with one patient that has impacted my nursing career greatly. I grew close to an elderly woman at the nursing home where I was studying during my clinical rotation. I enjoyed caring for her and looked forward to our interactions. One day I found out she was being treated for a urinary tract infection with antibiotics. I did not think much of it as this is a common type of infection; however, when I came into clinicals the next week, I found out she had passed away over the weekend. It was at this moment that I learned that, in pursuit of a career in nursing, you must have a character of resilience. Nurses are required to have more than clinical knowledge and judgment, they must have compassion, graciousness, and humility. Nurses are daily faced with challenges and hardships, they must be tough to prevent their emotions from getting in the way, but they cannot let the difficulties make them hard. As a nursing student, it is not sufficient to simply learn technical book knowledge—I must also learn the character qualities that will truly make me the nurse that my patients
Education is a privilege that not everyone in the world gets to experience. One purpose of education is to teach you the knowledge and skills upon which you can build a career. Arguably, a more important purpose of education is to develop one’s character and shape them into outstanding members of the community. As a nursing major, I have the unique opportunity to learn both in the classroom and outside the classroom in a clinical setting. The clinical setting offers a wide variety of learning experiences, allowing you to expand your knowledge and hone your skills while still under the watchful eye of instructors. In the clinical setting, you are daily working with patients and their families, as well as members of …show more content…
I learned this first hand last semester while on my clinical rotation at a local nursing home. Working in a nursing home allowed me to further develop my problem solving and critical thinking skills and required me to use them more than I had ever before. I was required to quickly assess a situation and make a judgment call about what actions to take. I had an encounter with one patient that has impacted my nursing career greatly. I grew close to an elderly woman at the nursing home where I was studying during my clinical rotation. I enjoyed caring for her and looked forward to our interactions. One day I found out she was being treated for a urinary tract infection with antibiotics. I did not think much of it as this is a common type of infection; however, when I came into clinicals the next week, I found out she had passed away over the weekend. It was at this moment that I learned that, in pursuit of a career in nursing, you must have a character of resilience. Nurses are required to have more than clinical knowledge and judgment, they must have compassion, graciousness, and humility. Nurses are daily faced with challenges and hardships, they must be tough to prevent their emotions from getting in the way, but they cannot let the difficulties make them hard. As a nursing student, it is not sufficient to simply learn technical book knowledge—I must also learn the character qualities that will truly make me the nurse that my patients