Bringing together education and healing was a life-changing experience that made me realize that nursing is my true calling. Traditionally, nurses were viewed as caregivers. In today’s world, image of nursing profession changes as nurses play many other roles such as patient’s advocates, educators, managers, team members, facilitators, and experts. (Zerwekh, 2006). As I read the entries from my reflective journal, I could see how my focus shifted from assisting patient with his basic needs at the beginning of the nursing school to more comprehensive nursing care today.
I began nursing school at a point in my life that was chaotic, I was getting divorced, my birth father was dying, and I was trying to settle into my role as a single parent of two young children. In Benner’s Stages of Nursing Expertise (2001), I began Stage I: Novice (Blais et al., 2011), amongst my chaotic situation. I knew as a young child I wanted to be a nurse and a teacher, but had no idea what it entailed till I became a nursing student. Coping at this point in my life had been tears and walking away, but I knew I had to do this not only for me but for the future of my children. The tides of change had started in my life at this point, developing new coping techniques were essential if I was going
I have enjoyed a twenty-four year career of public service. I can recall countless of lives that I touched as a Paramedic. Two instances that touched my life while helping people were, the patient experiencing a diabetic coma after a drop on blood sugar, and the mother with no prenatal care that waited until the last minute to give me the honor of delivering her child. These patients were special to me and brought a great sense of accomplishment to my life. I first decided to become a nurse, because nurses are paid
2005; Spouse: 2001). Several teaching methods are part of the nursing curriculum and two pedagogical models, behaviorism and constructivis, are included; Handwreker suggests a greater emphases on clinical training to bridge the aforementioned gap. Behaviorism involves the belief that human behavior can be modified based on stimulus and response. In the learning process reinforcement for desired behavior and accomplishment is presented in different methods like high test score, performing a specific skill, or a passing grade for the assignment. Accredited organizations for schools of nursing including Board of Nursing and entities such as the National League for Nurses Accrediting Commission help to maintain the behaviorist approach by setting standards for nursing programs.
Watson developed her theory influence by the Eastern culture, international travels, and experiences obtained from her sabbatical leaves. Caring theory, which has been developing over the years, serves as a guideline to educate nurses how to apply the theory in nursing practice. Later, Watson expanded her theory publishing her book Nursing: Human Science and Human Care to Human Caring Science: A Theory of Nursing. Watson’s job evolves “framing and naming caring science as the disciplinary foundation for nursing profession” (Watson, 2012, p. ix-xi). This theory has been used to help the new generation of nurses to view the human being as a whole with a connection between body, mind, spirit and the environment, understand transpersonal relationship, and create caring moments in nursing practice to improve patient care to obtain positive outcomes.
University of Phoenix Material Personal Philosophy of Nursing Worksheet This is a philosophy of nursing that reflects the beliefs and values of your name Today’s date is October 14, 2010 I chose nursing as my profession because nursing is about caring for others in their time of greatest need. It is one of few professions in which you can go home each day and be happy for what you did. Although you may not realize it, but you have affected the patient’s life in some way. Nursing is about healing and curing the patient’s symptoms of disease or illness. In my nursing class, I learned that doctors cure the sickness and nurses cure the patient.
On a daily basis, nurses use these domains in nursing education and patients with chronic diseases. Each domain is comprised of a hierarchy of behaviors, attainable, in order, from simplest to the most complex. His taxonomy would not remain static. In the mid-nineties, Lorin Anderson, a former Bloom student, started a revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy. She changed the categories from noun to verbs and slightly rearranged their order.
In the later half of the nineteenth century nurses undertook their training in hospital and their skills were judged on their qualities rather than their knowledge (Daly et al 2006). • Today student nurses undertake their training at Universities. Nursing is considered a profession. Why it is fundamental to the student • Smith (2002, p198) states ‘Technical and practical knowledge and critical thinking, when combined, can assist students to negotiate the sensitive gestational period that leads to the development of nursing identity, nursing expertise and reflective practice.’ • Hospital based training limited the possibilities for a nurse to develop knowledge and skills as the skill of critical
Application of Communication Theory to Nursing Introduction This is assignment on the application of communication theory to nursing with be based on a reflective account of a patient who I helped care for on a number of occasions during my community nursing placement. For confidentiality I will call the patient by a different name, in this case he will be called John White he lives at home with his wife is in his late fifties and is diagnosed with end stage multiple sclerosis (MS). He has a daughter who works in Bristol studying MS and she comes back to stay at the house every weekend. Multiple sclerosis is a ‘chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibres’. http://uk.ask.com/reference/dictionary/wordnetuk/110881/multiple%20sclerosis John entered into the end stages of MS near the end of 2007 and the turning point for this was when he was no longer able to swallow.
The objective of this paper is therefore to critically analyse the significant of practice arena in facilitating learning and how I as a registered nurse practitioner can induce learning in the practice area for a better learning environment. The place I work is a multi disciplinary ward consisting of multi range of learners from new to junior staff nurses, assistant nurses, care assistants and student nurses ranging from all semesters. As to this I will discuss on aspects of physical and social climate in learning environment and how learning core relates in that aspect. I will suggest and support with literature and compare with the learning system at my environment. I will also include the role of formal and informal learning and the learning style based on humanism, behaviourism and cognitive approaches and ways androgogy and pedagogy theories core relates in my learning environment.