Personal Narrative: My Nursing Mission Statement

In the course Nursing 110, I was asked to provide a mission statement on how I would pride myself in regards to my future practice and profession. I hoped to become a hardworking, persevering and compassionate nurse who creates a safe place for patients to become healthy again. To this day, all of those qualities are something I am still in the process of becoming, but that I am guaranteed to be. Not only am I a nursing student, I am a student nurse assistant floating to different floors each week frequently working with different patients. I do not see nursing as just a career, I see nursing as caring for people who are unable to provide for themselves, while being selfless in action. I believe the qualities I provided in my mission statement

Joseph’s College of Nursing, I remember being asked to create a mission statement concerning my future practice. It was not even something I had to think about. I have known for a very long time that I wanted to go into the nursing profession and exactly how I wanted my future patients to receive care from me. As for the qualities I chose in my mission statement, they all stand true. I hoped to become a hardworking nurse and I believe I have gotten better experience with that being enrolled as a full time student between St. Joseph’s College of Nursing and Le Moyne College, working at St. Joseph’s Hospital in my free time, as well as maintaining a social balance between family and friends. The late hours of staying up studying, completing assignments for other classes, attending my classes, going to clinical at the beginning of the week and then working on my days off make me believe I am a hardworker. When I step into the hospital each morning regardless if I am working or I am doing my clinical hours, I push everything aside that does not involve direct patient care and I believe that changes the way my patients in clinical or at work receive care from me. At the hospital, I am all helping hands. Whenever my peers need help, whether or not it is my patient, I am on their team and will always offer my hands when I am not busy. I know there are many times when I have needed an extra pair of hands to provide safe care to my patient whether it be getting them to the bathroom, turning them in bed, or simply cleaning them up, and my peers have always been available to help and I want the same for them. Being a compassionate nurse is a quality that I have always understood. Nursing takes knowledge, skills, caring, and many other qualities. Each time I walk into a patient's room, one of the first things I do is establish rapport. I always want my patients to feel secure and that their condition is being properly taken care