I find great satisfaction in helping others and seeing people’s health improve. Being a Nurse Practitioner is hard work, but I want to help and reach out to people. People who are sick require love and patients should have nurses who make them feel loved. Being a Nurse Practitioner takes good communication skills along with a calm and caring nature.…
The article “Changing Views: Influencing How the Public Sees Nursing”, discusses the importance and multitude of aspects that encompasses the identity of being a nurse. Nurse and author Pam Dickenson delves into useful ways nurses can increase the respect for their profession by non-nursing members of society, and also tells of the critical reasons that nursing’s image must never be undermined by false identities or misconceptions. She repeatedly emphasizes the importance of maintaining professional respect while on the job as well as off. Likewise, she provides helpful points on how nurses can be more effective influences in changing nursing’s identity as a profession: including being a strong leader, learning technology, taking care of…
Nurses are the backbones of any clinic or hospital sites. They provide health care in the best of their ability to help their patients but also be there for them as a person. Compassion and tolerance is key to being a nurse. There is no point of caring for other human beings especially those who are ill, if you can not be CARING. Nurses are just as important as any physician, just because they didn't earn a PhD, nurses are still just as helpful as any doctor in the medical field.…
Becoming a Registered Nurse is challenging. Not many people are worthy of the job. Registered Nurses help people, families, and groups to achieve health and prevent diseases. RN’s care for the sick in hospitals and health care facilities. Some Registered Nurses are employed in privateer practices.…
Thank you! I thought it was important to differentiate these meanings as well. Thank you for your thoughts on the profession's aspect of autonomy. I agree that a key aspect of our profession is altruism. I think that you bring up a great point in terms of the ownership of nursing careers.…
The American Nurses Association (ANA) defines nursing as the “protection, promotion, optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations” (American Nurses Association website, n.d.). The ANA definition is an accurate representation of my personal definition of nursing. It embodies the fundamental duty of caring for both individuals and communities, encompasses the necessity of health promotion and prevention of disease, incorporates the scope of advanced nursing practice in diagnosis and treatment of disease, and includes nursing’s role as an advocate. My personal…
Nursing has been an occupation in the world that has had a tremendous development in regards to not only technical skills but also public image. Nursing developed from a profession that was highly disregarded to a profession that is now significant in our society. Between 1500 and 1860 nurses’ image was looked down upon because for the most part nurses during these years were unfit for the profession – “the lay attendants who filled the nursing role were illiterate, rough, inconsiderate, and often immoral and alcoholic” (Masters, K. 2005, p 9). Due to the wide distribution of unfit individuals in the profession, nurses were considered to be a low-status position. However, this image changed after Florence Nightingale reformed the profession…
Being a nurse is a difficult job, but the rewards for this can been recognized by the fact that nursing has been ranked as the most trusted profession for over a decade according to gallup polls. I understand that I have an immense amount of responsibility within this field, and I actively choose to honor this by working hard, implementing basic principles of decency within my professional and personal life, and learning from those who have more insight in nursing than I currently do, so that one day I can impart my knowledge onto younger prospective nurses, as well. I consider this educational journey to be more significant than a career choice, but rather a calling to channel my intrinsic values of compassion, dependability, and servitude in a career that saves lives daily.…
Image of Nursing: How Media Influences the Image of Nursing in Society “As individuals, we define ourselves and are defined by others through images. Our image defines the way we behave, the way others respond and behave towards us and our confidence in our own self” (Hall & Ritchie, 2009, p. 41). In today’s generation, society perceives nurses to be caring, compassionate, and loving individuals. Society associates these traits with a feminine occupation more often than with a male occupation.…
I believe that nursing has developed from being a low wage, low respected and unskilled job to a legitimate, scientific profession. History has shown us that nurses have had to fight to get the respect they deserved from other medical professions and dispel the stereotype. Unfortunately, this fight continues to this day. History has also told us that the job of the nurse was to basically keep the patient clean, feed, bathe, and take the patient outside for some fresh air, no questions asked. To a degree, the actual cares for our patients has not changed, however now we DO ask questions.…
The Role of Nursing It is said that the nursing profession is one of the most respected and trusted careers there are. From the beginning, a nurse’s role was to nurture and mend those that are sick, frail and even through the process of end of life, but it doesn’t just stop there. Nursing has come a long way and entails many more aspects than they are even given credit for. A nurse wears many hats and is required to perform duties outside of healing obvious wounds.…
It means to assist someone in their darkest times and to hopefully bring them closer to a better day. Nursing has no one definition for me, but one thing it does have is an overwhelming amount of good feelings…
In my opinion, caring is the key to nursing, and without it nursing would be nonexistent. Knowing from…
My perception of nursing is more than a profession. It is a lifestyle; one which is both a calling and a mission. It goes beyond conducting procedures, starting IVs, and administering medications. The role of the nurse involves becoming your patient’s advocate. It means serving as a reliable and principled liaison to their recovery, both physically and spiritually.…
Having the knowledge on how to help people is one of the most rewarding and important things one can accomplish in his or her life. Having a career in the medical field has been something that I wanted since I was little. The role of a nurse is one of the most challenging and satisfying jobs in the world. Nursing is one of the few jobs that lets you connect with people and truly make a difference in their lives. Being a good nurse means being a good listener, being eager to learn, having interpersonal skills, being empathetic and having the pride to improve on oneself and learn from one’s mistakes.…