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The purpose of this essay is to identify and expand on the image of the professional nurse and how the media perceives it to be in comparison to three scholarly articles, which accurately reflect the nursing profession. The media source of which the three scholarly articles will be compared to is a film named Meet The Parents, more specifically a clip where Greg Focker is explaining his career choice of a nurse to his fiancées condescending parents. This essay will discuss how…

Nursing Educator Interview I recently had the opportunity to sit with the Nursing Educator at my local hospital to ask her a series of questions regarding her profession. During her 30 years as a nurse she has gained a plethora of knowledge, experience and critical thinking skills. As a nurse holding a masters degree in the science of nursing, she actively uses her clinical abilities within the acute and critical care unit while also successfully functioning as a nursing educator. After 5…

Following Nightingale We are all drawn to nursing by forces that we can’t see, but we feel them and are so compelled by their forces that we follow these feelings and become nurses. I feel that, spiritually, Florence Nightingale is the nursing theorist that I could compare myself to. Florence Nightingale was born in England in 1820 to two wealthy and well-connected parents. Her parents both came from Unitarian religious backgrounds, but because of her father’s association with the Church of…

An expert nurse is someone highly skilled and knowledgeable gained from higher education and years of clinical experience. The expert nurse practices safely as underlined by governing bodies, skillfully, all while providing kind comforting care. These are some of the baseline characteristics of the expert nurse, and with experiences nurses relies more on intuition rather than policies or check lists. The expert nurse is able to anticipate the good and the bad as the patient clinically progress.…

A Book Review: Educating Nurses; A Call for Radical Transformation Many authors have suggested that, in response to the skills that nurses require to meet the needs of society and the health-care system, nursing education must be transformed. Benner, Sutphen, Leonard and Day go a step further and call for “urgent and radical transformation” of how nurses are educated and how nursing educators are prepared for their teaching role. Benner et al. analyze the results of the Carnegie National…

becoming a nurse- leaving her family in the Philippines to be in this country of greater opportunities to pursue a career as a nurse. There were some days when my mother came home from work looking drained and tired, but she was always willing to share heart-warming and amazing stories about her patients at the dinner table. With my father being a custodian, my mother had to make sacrifices for the benefit of my family, such as adding on extra night shifts or being unable to be with us on…

Exellence and accuracy in nursing is not only expected but it is required. The lives of people depend on the awareness, alertness and clarity of mind of the nurse. Unfourtunatly nurses are overworked, stressed and often pushed beyond healthy and safe limits. This is concerning especially when we condisder the crititcal and important role nurses play in the care of vulnerable patients. One of the areas that is of particual importatnce in nursing and as a nursing student is getting enough rest…

learn from and reciprocally teach to. Bedside nurses can determine the patients mindset to figure out appropriate ways to motivate them; whether that be through setting easily attainable goals (fixed mindset), or challenging them (growth mindset). A manager or charge nurse is able to identify his or her nursing staffs mindset category and relate and communicate with them more efficiently and effectively. Ultimately I strive to become a neonatal nurse practitioner; much of my responsibility…

intimidating to begin a new position as a nurse in a new healthcare organization. Unfortunately, clichés are often formed by employees. Last December I was in new employee orientation. My first day I arrived early in order to be prepared and to meet the nurse that would be training me on the unit. It was much unexpected that the nurse walked in two minutes before her shift started and she was unaware that she was going to be training a new employee. This nurse became irate. She did introduce…

parental over protectiveness. Pediatric nurses strive to make the lives of children healthier and happier everyday. Many people do not realize the impact pediatric nurses have on the lives of children and the struggles a pediatric nurse endures daily. “Pediatric nurses work with patients from infancy to young adulthood, giving developmental screenings, immunizations, and treating common illnesses. They work closely with family doctors, pediatricians and other nurses, to provide preventative as…