Career Development
This movie, NURSES If Florence Could See Us Now, inspired me and lifted my feelings about going into the practice during this hard time of COVID. Especially when mentioned how proud she would be to see nurses and everything we take on. This movie was released in 2013 and it made me think about how much prouder Florence would be of nurses even now. Having to start this new career of ours during COVID is intimidating but this documentary helped…
Prepare for Transition
As we get closer to graduation, job applications and thinking about the NCLEX, I wish I could describe what I am feeling. I am the first person in my family to graduate from college and the first person in my family to go into the healthcare field. I have been an LNA for the past four years so one of the things that I am most excited about it being able to transition from that LNA role into the nurses’…
Final Dissemination Project: Nurse Burnout
Throughout nursing school, we have always been told that we need to be able to care for ourselves to be able to care for our patients. Doing this project and actually looking at the research done on nurse burnout related to their own care was very interesting! It was cool to look at what methods helped more than others and which factors contributed the most. Trying to decide on the method of delivery for this, we decided on a poster…
Compassion and Empathy
Introduction This semester provided a lot of different experiences to open our eyes up to what it means to take care of a patient. I have been a Licensed Nursing Assistant in New Hampshire for 3 years now, which has exposed me to many different families and many different nurses. This also means that I have also been able to see many different ways in which health care workers provided care. People tend to think that compassionate and empathetic…
Art and Nursing
This image really reminds me of nursing because it shows the selflessness of it. This was during a war when even though the nurses helping the wounded were most likely scared themselves, they put that aside to care for everyone else. The other part of this image that I really like is the fact that the little girl is clinging onto her dress. That is really part of nursing because the people and patients that we care for, really depend…
