Palliative Oncology Nurse Reflection

I am a full time student aiming to be a palliative oncology nurse in the future. I want to work with dying patients who have cancer to help them in their end of life. It sounds scary but I think that we should be more open about death because everyone dies, it 's only a matter of time so we should be taking care, not only of the sick but also of the dying. My physical health right now is alright, although I do have a problem that I should go see the doctor but I am to lazy to go. If it is what I think it is I should start changing my dietary habits and increasing my physical activity. My mental health right now is so much better that before because I can say that I am happy and looking forward to the future of nursing school and someday having …show more content…
I knew that it involved stretching and doing some poses, but never expected the positive outcomes on my physical, emotional and mental health. What wanted me to take this course honestly was that it was supposed to be easy and a class where hopefully people would not see me do exercise. I feel somewhat ashamed of my body and doing by being in a physical exercise class I did not want to be the center of humiliation for others. Coming to the first classes made it seem so, since others could do the poses correctly and I could not. Over the course of the semester I learned that no one is really looking at you and everyone is struggling to do the poses, to either stay in them or remain balanced with inner focus. Many thoughts would be running through my head like “Am I doing this right?”, “Is everyone looking at me?”. Overtime I learned to accept that I have limitations, like I can not do the shoulder stand, at least no in class because I feel way too uncomfortable to even try it. At home it is another story, since I am in the privacy of my home. Some of the muscles that I felt were the ones in my leg. In the beginning I would feel sore but now it just feels