Caring in Nursing Essay

Nursing can be a rewarding and satisfying career choice. One of the many benefits of being a nurse is that there are a wide variety of categories & divisions of nursing to choose from such as, long term care nursing, pediatric nursing, critical care nursing and emergency care nursing to name a few, among many other specialty areas. Long Term Care Nursing specializes in caring for the elderly patient. Nurses that work in nursing homes often times are responsible for the total well-being of…

As a first year nursing student at the University of Southern Mississippi, many of my instructors have introduced confusion and doubt into my mind about things I have never really sat and pondered about. Who are you as a nurse? What do you stand for? What are your future goals as a nurse? These questions have crossed the mind, but they have no definite answer. As a young, black woman in a big world, I find myself constantly changing. Those changes include short term and long term goals, my…

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.…

My Nursing Philosophy Nursing is a great profession and most rewarding with numerous opportunities to expand one’s career in a wide variety of venues. Nursing is more than treating the ill; rather it is focuses on delivering quality of care that is individualized to each patient. The core values and beliefs of my nursing philosophy is based on patient-centered care and patient advocate. I believe that each patient should be treated as an individual and given the best quality of care. As nurses…

Social exchange theory has everything to do with our interactions. It for the most part it describes how one feels about relationships we have with another person. These feelings depend on our ability to understand what the relationship offers, what it does not offer, what one can get out of it, and or other thoughts about the relationship. In short this theory basically assumes that every relationship is based on the benefits of a given situation and this is then determined based on…

Caring for the Enemy: An Ethical Struggle Every day, nurses are presented with complex ethical decisions that influence their daily practice. One notable ethical challenge specific to military nursing is caring for the enemy combatant. This ethical challenge is just as relevant to nurse anesthesia as it is to bedside intensive care nursing. The purpose of this essay is to explain how caring for the enemy poses an ethical challenge and health risk, introduce the concept of…

Appropriate staffing is one of the many factors that go into the quality of patient care. During my time on the observational floor the staffing levels have been consistent. Staffing included four Registered Nurses (RN), each caring for up to six patients and three unlicensed technicians caring for up to 12 patients each. The RN's on the observational floor take care of admissions, giving medications, continuous monitoring of patients as they are typically being transferred from the emergency…

A nurse is a highly skilled, sensitive, educated and adaptive being. It is not merely a career one chooses to pursue. It is a transformation of thinking and behaving. My philosophy of nursing embodies the different ideas and actions witnessed in many great mentors I have had the privilege to work with. Nursing serves as team leader, caregiver, advocate, educator and role model. The Nurse is a leader first and foremost. Unlike the description of complete obedience to the doctor in the late 1800s…

a nurse. She lived vicariously through me, and I was perfectly fine with that. 
 I began nursing school at the young age of 19. I knew little about life, let alone how to save someones. Although I was young, I had a passion for helping others. I could not think of a better way to be of service to people in need, than to become a…

Nursing is a wonderful career to get into. Not many people know what a nurse does. They know broadly what a nurse does, but not exactly what it means to be a nurse. By talking to people and asking them what their opinion was of a nurse there were many different answers. When asking around one person said nurses take care of sick and weak people. Another person said nurses are the people that help aid the doctor. He went on by saying that nurses do not diagnosis anything or prescribe…