I am highly organized, excellent in communication and customer service skills. I work productively, independently and with little or no supervision. I welcome the opportunity after becoming an License Nurse to help develop and demonstrate professional skills on communication in a patient care environment, while establiblishing characteristics that will balance my knowledge with practical expertise. In my life I want to change to a better stable financial stated, more challenging career, a better future, and continue to help others in a more advanced stage of advancement in my life. I have always wanted to be in the nursing field because of the stability and I have a care nature for every just about every living thing.
I mostly see older patients in the hospital because I work on the orthopedics floor. About 75% of orthopedic patients are over the age of 68. Let’s face it, old people fall and break bones a lot more than younger in shape people do. A lot of people are there for optional surgeries too but those surgeries are knee or hip replacements. After working here for about a year one day one of my female coworkers came up to me and said, “You’re going to be a really awesome nurse.” I hadn’t thought much about going into nursing because I always thought of it as a feminine career path.
KOT 1 Task 1 Two strategies that enable a nurse on an interdisciplinary team to exert leadership without occupying a formal leadership position are being a role model and a problem solver. To be a role model you must demonstrate to your peers and coworkers how to do the right thing all the time; to know that making the right decision isn’t always the easiest one to make but it’s the only decision to make. The leaders of the world, musicians and actors are all role models; they are all looked on and modeled after. I want to be a role model in healthcare; I want to be that difference. Problem solvers don’t have to be scientist; they just have to be good at figuring out why things happen certain ways and how you may fix those problems.
There are many qualities that a nurse must possess in order to be successful; respect, patience, good communication and critical thinking skills are only a few. I feel that these are my top three strengths that will help me be successful in the RN program: obtaining six years of nursing experience, empathy, and the ability to work well with others. After working in the nursing field for 6 years as an LVN, I was given the opportunity to return to school full time to receive my associate’s degree. Attending the ADN transition program would further my knowledge base and provide me with in depth skills that would make me more of an asset in the medical profession. Because of my past experience in the LVN program, I am aware of the daily challenges and struggles that full time nursing school entails.
She has completed a Master’s in Business Administration, and another Master’s with two majors – Master’s in Business Management and Healthcare management. She is currently finishing her PhD in Nursing. She has learned that the foundations taught to a nursing student sets the stage for a life in the profession, not only with the skills that nurses do each day, but also with the example and expectation to demonstrate respectful interaction, responsibility, and dedication to the job we do as nurses. Description of a Leader Dawn went on to describe a leader as a person
Discourse Community Not just anyone can belong to the discourse community of Nursing. It takes the dedication and passion of the profession to endure the career. Enough passion to want to make a change in the healthcare industry as well as in the lives of the patients. In the Registered Nurse Discourse Community it is vital to comprehend and utilize the resources to keep and maintain the highest quality level of patient care through the communication skills, the reading to stay knowledgeable, and the research that is studied in this field. A discourse community is a community of people that relate to one another in one specific area.
AACN Scholarship I have now been a Registered nurse for almost an entire year. I have spent this year training and orienting in the Adult ICU setting at St. John Medical Center in Tulsa, OK. It has always been a dream of mine to be a Family Nurse Practitioner. In nursing school I had the opportunity to shadow several nurse practitioners and create a project showing the various jobs that they can do. I also work with several nurse practitioners in my career as an intensive care nurse.
However, before you are seen by a doctor, you would probably be seen by a nurse first. To me nurses play a huge role in the medical field because often they are the first health-care professional a patient sees. Becoming a nurse is my dream profession. It is profession that allows me to work hands on and express genuine affections towards those that are in need of medical attention. Growing up, I had my mother to look up to.
If you want to become a registered nurse, you should truly consider taking a degree in Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN). The next step is to get clinic experience. Nurses need to have a certain amount of hours of clinic work. By working in a clinic for awhile, you gain an understanding and the knowledge of how to work with the equipment and how to work with different types of patients which will help you a lot. The last step is to get licensed.
Armed with the latest in EBP, the most recent nursing knowledge, and freshly learned skills, the new nurse is expected, by some, to function at the same level as every other experienced nurse on their unit. The members of this committee understand this is an unrealistic expectation, however, just how long should it take for the new graduate nurse to function as an independent staff nurse? Dr. Patricia Benner, one of nursing’s Grand Theorists, has addressed this very question. In her book, From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice, Dr. Benner describes that much of the knowledge learned in nursing is obtained at the bedside, and new nurses will only become expert nurses through time and experience. Dr. Benner based her work on the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition (2001).