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I am interested in pursuing a career in nursing. I plan to get my BSN and possibly continue on to get my Masters and become a nurse practitioner. Some of the daily duties of a registered nurse entail gathering health histories, preforming physical exams, dressing wounds, making informed and critical decisions that best suit the needs of patients, directing and teaching nursing aids, promoting health through education and counseling, administering drugs and medications, researching ways to…

goals in life is to help as many people as I possibly can, and I wouldn’t want it any other way. I want to become a Nurse Practitioner so that I can help a lot of people with my life. I have a lot of plans that relate to my future education and occupation. I obtained my Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) degree while in high school, which made me into who I am today. I went to MidEast Career and Technology Centers (Zanesville Campus) for their LPN program. Out of the 21 in the class, I was one of…

I have decided to pursue an advanced degree in nursing because of my love for science, healthcare and helping others. It has always been a passion for me to help families in any way that I can. I have had the honor of working closely with some amazing nurses when I worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant and I saw some of the responsibilities that nurses have. The nurses I worked with performed many tasks like, physical exams, coordinating doctor’s appointments, administering and prescribing…

Nurse-Midwife managed care improves satisfaction Satisfaction has become a metric that helps determine reimbursement by Medicare and insurance companies. This change is due to the Affordable Care Act(ACA), and was done to improve the care provided by hospitals and providers to patients. The ACA has gone into effect since Paul, Jordan, Duty, & Engstrom (2013) released their article on using certified nurse midwives(CNM) to improve patient satisfaction and care. (Paul, J., Jordan, R., Duty, S.,…

My mum is a nurse in Gynaecology so I understand that the job is extremely challenging and every day is different however I find that nursing is such a remarkably rewarding job as I would be helping others who are vulnerable and have ill health. This is what first sparked my interest and ever since I understood what nursing actually entailed, I have wanted to pursue a career in adult nursing. I think I would make a great nurse because I am a very empathetic person and also exceptionally friendly…

First and foremost, a practical nurse should provide effective care, understanding, treatment and communication to patients. This combination of roles in an LPN would ensure the highest quality of care possible for each individual. I personally believe that the educational requirements should begin with special personality traits. Someone who is compassionate, considerate, humane and warmhearted just to name a few. But in the educational sense it first requires a high school diploma. This…

Radiology Angela Dean is my mentor. Angela Dean works at Mercy Clinic Westbrook in Edmond. Angela loves her job and everything that comes with it. She has worked there all her years of being a radiologist. Angela met a radiologist while working at a daycare then knew that was the job for her. The reason she stays in the field is the good pay and the loving people she meets every day. Angela did not know what she wanted to do at first right out of high school. She searched for jobs she wanted…

I have interviewed Claudia Kim from Texas Children’s Hospital who is a registered nurse in NICU. She attended Baylor initially as a dance major. Soon after realizing she wanted to have kids and needed to buckle down, she laid down her options knowing she wanted to do something to help people. She returned home and attended San Jacinto Community College and later graduated from UT Health. She explained how in community college it was a bunch of paperwork and pre requisites but at UT Health it was…

What if, instead of going to the doctor, you received a visit from a nurse – on horseback? That’s how the nurses of the Frontier Nursing Service travelled to see their patients. The patients lived in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. A hundred years ago, these communities were far from towns and hospitals. No one had a car, and railroad stations were miles away. When people got sick or had new babies, no doctor was close enough to help. A nurse named Mary Breckinridge had been to Scotland,…

It doesn’t take much to become a nurse if you have the desire to become one. You'll first need to start with doing volunteer work at your hospital to see if it's really what you have in mind. You'll also need a bachelor's degree which is 4 four years, but threes also a couple of programs in nursing that only need an associate's degree. After completing this there are a couple of exams that need to be done for example NCLEX-RN and NCLEX-PN. After passing them you'll be able to obtain your license…