Sample Nursing Journal

Journal Entry #1

Introduction to Nursing

Alyson Lanyon

University of Missouri-Kansas City During the first few weeks of this class, it has amazed me how much information and history there is about nursing. Hearing these things, and reading about the amazing accomplishments that women like Florence Nightingale achieved has created an even deeper passion for nursing in me. It has opened my eyes to the many struggles nurses have gone through in the past, as well as the struggles they go through on a daily basis. It has made me come to the conclusion that nursing is NOT for the light of heart. At the beginning of my senior year in high school no one in my class knew what they wanted to do with their lives or where they wanted to go

He was a perfect baby boy, but wasn’t breathing and his APGAR scores were very poor. He was rushed away to the NICU so quick I barely knew what was going on. As my epidural wore off, the nurse helped me walk down to the NICU nursery and see my precious baby boy. As soon as I walked in the door my sons nurse greeted me and told me what was going on with him. She walked me over to his side and explained to me that he no longer had to have a breathing tube inserted but just nasal air support. The next few days that I was there both he and I both had many nurses, but I never had a problem with any of them. They all were so helpful and supportive of me, as well as my decisions, and they sort of taught me how to advocate for my son, as well as myself. Those nurses and their advice for me have helped me so much over this last

They had to overcome so many struggles to help make nursing the way it is today. Not to mention, they helped make nursing a profession and made it become a well-respected one at that. For me, it would mean everything to make the same impact on a patient that the nurses that helped me did. I cant even imagine the impact women like Florence Nightingale had on patients and the courage she gave them, as well as the courage she gave other nurses. My goal is to one day have an impact in someone’s life just like the woman in the movie Sentimental Women Need Not Apply who had served in the Vietnam war as a nurse. In the movie, she told a story about how a man had called the hospital she had worked at and he had told her that he just wanted to thank the nurse who had taken care of him the day that he was injured and that he would never forget her. Then she realized that she had been that nurse in the ER that day. It is moments like this that you think, that is the type of impact that I want to make in someones life. (Hott,