Certified Nursing Assistant

Working as a Certified Nursing Assistant in a long-term healthcare facility has made me question how we handle death for the terminally ill in the United States. Caring for and interacting with people that are in the final stages of life alters one’s personal view of death. In a way it removes fear and allows one to see the comfort and relief that death may bring to someone that is suffering. Picture this; you have been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Out of desperation, and denial, you…

After traumatically losing my leg in an accident I did not lose my positive attitude toward life or my desire to help others, I choose my own way to continue the path I was following before this tragedy struck. From the age of 18 as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) to age 25 working as a Mental Health Associate (MHA) at a hospital, I chose to lead a life of service. My drive to assist others as a CNA would be the catalyst for me discovering that I wanted to be a Licensed Professional Clinical…

The Road to Success Reading and writing are like the components of a workout; the more you practice, the better you’ll become. This comparison became my motto during a time I had to learn a new language. Although it wasn’t just any language like English or Spanish, this language involved codes, signs, abbreviations, and terms. I would have to learn this new language through the help of reading and writing in a mere three months. Having a hate-hate relationship with reading and writing…

1. https://www.ache.org/abt_ache/code.cfm American College of Healthcare Executives Code of Ethics is for Healthcare leadership representatives. Currently I am a Practice Manger for a health care company, and am pursuing a role as a Regional Director. The ACHE Code of Ethics set a guideline for Healthcare Leadership to interact with their patients, colleagues, community and other organizations. Rules of ethical behavior for the leadership are covered in the Code of Ethics. An essential…

Being a certified nursing assistant (CNA) for elderly comes with many challenges, and I didn’t discover this until after did my clinical at a nursing home. There, I observed many opportunities for learning and growth in long-term care. With the permission of my instructor, I explored around and had a little time to communicate with the senior citizens. I continued to make observations and found that communicating with the elderly presents difficulties that impact the CNA’s ability to implement…

The influences of my work and goals at Colorado Christian University is first and for most the Lord Jesus by the encouragement of the Holy Spirit. A factor in which helped me think of this opportunity was Pastor Ricky who himself is not only a pastor he wears many hats a dad, works a job, is about to start a bus ministry, and He is a student at a different online university. See back in 2001 I had just Graduated High School from a Christian high school in Anchorage, Alaska. So my church at the…

I work as an elementary school tutor and as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CAN) at a health care facility. As a double major in Biology and Sociology, and a Pre-medical student it 's a lot of running around, waking up extremely early and sleeping at all hours of the night. But I love working with the children…

Unlike most people I hear that are in health science, I have not always known that I desired to be in the health science field. This may sound strange since I am applying to a health science school, but I now know that this is what I am most passionate about. When I started high school, we were presented with many PowerPoint’s, slideshows, and quizzes about what we should do when we got out of high school. Even with all these materials, I still was not sure about what I truly wanted to do. This…

Servant Leadership People always say that it takes a special type of person to be a nurse. The critical trait that makes this special type of person is the ability to serve others. While leadership is learned and developed through skills, a combination of those proficiencies together make a great servant leader. Marquis and Huston (2015) explain servant leadership as the ability to serve others, first and for-most. The multiple proficiencies combine to create the servant leader, are those…

summer before my senior year of high school. I was tired of having an empty wallet when I wanted to go out with friends and I did not want to ask my parents to cover my “wants” forever, but who really wants to go to work? When I received my Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) license during my junior year, I thought that it would merely represent an opportunity to get a good paying job for someone my age. My first day on the job I realized that this was going to be so much more than just a…