I choose nursing as my profession because I have always wanted to be part of fostering a healing environment for others, and to see people get well. It was always my deepest desire to nurture and help restored people to health. During my years of practice, I came to understand that “promoting health and easing suffering lies at the heart of the essence of nursing.” (Weese, 2015, para. 1). Although promoting health and easing suffering lies at the heart of nursing, caring about people embodies it, and it is an honorable profession that is fulfilling and one that for me is very rewarding. I have never wanted nursing as a profession when I was younger, I wanted to be a veterinarian but could not afford to go to school at that time. The door to nursing opened to me by an unseen hand before I ever had a passion for it. My passion developed when I worked as a …show more content…
I would like to see nursing transcend what it is today, I may not be a part of that or go down in history like Florence Nightingale, but I would like to make history in the eyes of my patients. Thinking outside the box to make positive changes. To see patients, progress to health or stabilize at home requires often a change of environment. “The nurse is with the patient and family all the time.
I believe that nursing is just not what we do it is who we are. The very definition of nursing is nurture- the process of caring for and encouraging the growth or development if someone or something. It is meaningful to me as a profession because it allows me to engage the person, not just the clinical needs, and investigate the spiritual needs of the patient in my care.
Rising to meet the challenges in the future of nursing, in technological advances, the growing cost of healthcare, and the aging population keeps the nurse form being the status quo of nursing. It is more complex and requires critical