What does nursing mean to me? Nursing means helping people heal, meeting their needs while they are in your care, listening to concerns, protecting them from harm, and educating them how to care for themselves while treating them with dignity, compassion and respect. Nursing is giving of yourself to the care of people and community, while expecting nothing in return. It is having compassion for people and their health, being a humanitarian, and making sure patients receive the best care possible. Nurses must also deal with families of patients with gentleness and kindness, realizing they are going through a stressful situation also. Nursing is a responsibility to provide the finest care regardless of the patient’s age, race, religion, sex, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or their past. Nurses must keep up to date on education, new processes, policies and keep informed about new laws and regulations in healthcare, so outstanding healthcare can be administered. As a nurse, you have undertaken a responsibility to provide people the finest quality care that can possibly receive. It is a nurses’ duty to follow the code of ethics, to act …show more content…
If you see someone needing assistance, it is your duty and obligation to go help, not only because you can but on the grounds that you are a nurse, you are compassionate and caring, you wish to help people. That is why you smile when you see a patient return to your unit after discharge to say, “Thank you for caring for me, you saved my life,” or when a family thanks you for caring for their family member who passed away. You may not get thanked everyday but the time you do it is rewarding. Reminiscing, is how you can look at your life and be satisfied that you made a difference in people’s lives, maybe everything did not go as planned, you lost some patients, but more made it through, you did your best and