Her previous positions include nursing in the pediatric intensive care unit at both the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and in the emergency department of a hospital located in New Jersey. She also had a position as a school nurse previously and went to school following to earn her PhD. What Kate loves most about her job is the opportunity to work with students and interns as well as research on the whole. In fact, she has won several awards for her work in research including honors from the Villanova School of Nursing as well as the Eastern Nursing Research Society. If there were something that she could change about her job, she said that at times processes within research development can take too long, especially with human subjects, and at times she times she wishes the process was more streamlined. She reports to her department supervisor at the School of Nursing at the University of
I chose to interview someone that I have looked up to and has been an inspiring role model for deciding to pursue a career in nursing. I have known Phyllis Czarnecki, for six years now, however, I was never familiar with the details of her career as a registered nurse. This interview gave me more respect for Mrs. Czarnecki by giving me a better understanding of the path she has taken to be where she is now. I have always known the general idea of a nurse's responsibilities, however, this interview allowed me to learn the personal opinions and a specific job of a registered nurse. Phyllis realized, as a teenager, she wanted to become a nurse when her mom was hospitalized and undergoing surgery.
a. This portfolio shows the educational journey through the BSN program at Western Governors University(WGU). The curriculum at WGU was very challenging, nonetheless it prepared me to become a safe and effective nurse. The BSN curriculum provided avenues to keep me up to date with safe practices and learn how to master therapeutic communication. WGU also helped me sharpen my critical thinking skills in order to make decisions quickly and provide safe and effective care to patients. As the result of my training, I am ready to embark in the field of nursing and do my best to make a difference in my patients lives.
Raised from nothing at the age of 18, she decided she wanted to pursue a career in nursing. After being accepted into the hospital nursing school, she was 1 of 4 out of 42 people that graduated the next year. Mahoney’s professionalism made her a much-respected nurse and she went on and succeeded in this field. Mahoney 's accomplishments have driven me to
For some reason, I have always been someone with a strong passion for babies and children. Their unbiased and pure thoughts, genuineness and unconditional love are all traits that I both admire and aspire to attain. Just as they can learn from us, we can learn from them. My goal is to be a neonatal NP, and I am determined to achieve it, but my dream is to positively impact the lives of as many kids as I can in my lifetime, all the while bettering myself everyday by learning from each of them. I have been volunteering a Shoesmith Elementary as a youth mentor for a year now.
Nevertheless, I applied to the University of Texas at Arlington’s nursing program and was accepted in Fall 2014. That opened the doors to countless opportunities for me to find my spark. Through my lectures and clinical rotations, I was taught that being a nurse meant ensuring the safety of every patient and working arduously to maintain their quality of life. With that principle in mind, I practiced my skill as a nursing student on every unit that I was assigned to.
My interviewee is a fifty-three-year-old, white female named Kat Smith. Kat is the mother of two daughters and has been married to her husband for twenty-five years. She is a stay at home mom and lives a comfortable middle class lifestyle. Kat was diagnosed with at age forty-nine with uterine fibroids that resulted in a total hysterectomy. Previously Kat had lived in extreme pain for over fifteen years, she expected that something was wrong, however, the doctors that were treating Kat did not order an ultrasound and attributed her pain to her menstrual cycle.
For my senior project I job shadowed a registered nurse on the Acute Rehab floor at Mercy General Hospital. My goals for senior project were to learn the basic skills a nurse needs to help a patient and to learn how to interact with different types of personalities. My mentor for my project was Michelle Whitten, she has been a nurse for two and a half years. Michelle has a B.S in nursing and a B.A in human development. She is certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR, Basic Life Support BLS, Advanced cardiac life support ACLS, Pediatric Advanced Life Support PALS, Cardiac Monitoring, MPR, and Certified Rehabilitation Registered Nurse CRRN.
In my interview I decided meet with a co-worker that has17 years’ experience in school nursing, 35 years’ experience in critical care and 2 years’ experience as a clinical instructor for Lancaster General Hospital School of Nursing. Margret Young has her School Nursing Certification along with her BSN and her CCRN (Certified Critical Care Registered Nurse). She is a Masters candidate and is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. Below are the interview questions and response.
Keiser University Nursing Program Applicant Writing Assignment Please identify and describe characteristics of nursing practice as you understand it, that have attracted you to the profession. Describe any work, volunteer or life experiences, which you believe have prepared you for nursing education. What personal qualities do you possess that you believe would enhance your practice of nursing.
I decided to conduct my interview with one of the best R.N.’s I know, my good friend Shain Smith who works for a long-term care facility. Mrs. Smith and I worked together in the same nursing home for over ten years, at which time, she was a certified nursing assistance, while going to college to receive a degree in nursing. She graduated in 2016 in the top 3% of her class. She is now the infection control nurse at the same facility.
After reading and reviewing the assigned reading, many elements of the documents aligned with my professional and academic goals. I still consider myself relatively new to nursing. For the last two and half years, I have worked as a staff nurse working with high risk patients. We focus on delivering quality care to expectant and postpartum mothers with serious medical conditions. While working on this unit, I have developed an interest in maternal health before, during, and after pregnancy.
It took me a while to find nurses that wanted to participate in my interview. I was able to interview 2 nurses at a medical center because this week at my private practice, with the help of an Ecuadorian Audiologist who has ABR/ASSR system, we had a Microtia week from all over Bolivia and one of the mother’s was a nurse assistant, she made the contact with her boss and I was able to interview both, yesterday. (NP: nurse practitioner and NA: auxiliary nurse- MARIA) 1) What motivated you to become a nurse? NP:
Nursing is a most trusted and gratifying profession. As a nurse educator, I will express my passion for teaching by incorporating features such as clinical assessments, practical application of theory, evaluation, and role modeling into advanced nursing practice, from previous experiences and current experience and clinical practicum to find success and gratification in students chosen profession as well empowering leaners to develop their own strengths, beliefs, and personal attributes to become a good professional. Personally, I do have a positive attitude towards the personal and professional growth, and value ongoing learning and will stive to instill the same into my students learnig journey .. My objective as a Nurse Educator
1. INTRODUCTION T. S. Eliot (1943) once wrote, “We had the experience but missed the meaning”. We can have all the experiences in the world, but if we missed out on reflecting, how would we be able to find the meaning? In this reflection of an interview we were tasked to complete, I will be adopting Gibbs’ (1988) reflective cycle to help me in the describing, exploration of feelings, evaluating analysing, identifying implications, before concluding and writing the action plan. 2.
