Personal Narrative: What It Means To Be Human

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What it means to be human
There are many different definitions of what it means to be human. But according to Taee, “being human is simply understanding that others are human too. They have equal rights with you and you should treat them as you wish they treat you and you should not treat them in ways that you do not like to be treated.” (Taee)
Models of health and healing
There are three different eras in medicine, however I am going to discuss the first 2 eras and how they relate to what it means to be human.
Physical body. In the first era medicine was focused strictly on treating the body. Therefore, if the patient were being treated for a fever the doctor would strictly be treating the fever alone. The patient may be uncomfortable
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After reading the definition of a guardian I agree with this finding completely. It basically states that I am the person that likes to keep things running. I can be a fun person to be around, but I like to keep things in order at the same time. I am the type of person that wants to do the job that no one else is willing to do and that I take pride in this. It states that a guardian takes pride in being dependable and trustworthy and this statement is spot on. This is the one thing that I do take a lot of pride in. I was amazed at how the results to this test were right on with my personality. (Keirsey, …show more content…
Because I am a dependable person that aims to please, it is hard for me to say no when I am asked to do something. It is because of this that others are able to take advantage of my generosity so easily. I have been more and more aware of this and have been working and will continue to work at telling people no and standing my ground when the situation would affect me negatively otherwise. The other challenge I run into on a regular basis is when I work with someone that is strictly about the job and not necessarily about the patient or the people around them. These people are not into teamwork. They are completely focused on themselves and if there is a patient that is not assigned to them or a co-worker that needs assistance they are going to be the one that disappears when a need arises and they are not about to do anything for a patient that has not been assigned to them. This is an issue for me, because I am the type of person that will step in and pick up this slack even if it causes my own work to get behind. I have to work hard to be more mindful of this daily and point out to the other coworker that they need to help out as well or just flat out delegate to them in a way that does not give them another option. With my personality these are both difficult challenges to overcome, but as long as I work at them daily I can overcome them without sacrificing my

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