Nursing: My personal philosophy

When to look up the word “nurse” in the dictionary, one will find the following definition of word: “somebody who cares for a sick person.” However, I find this definition to be too simplified. In my opinion nursing is something more that taking care of the other person’s life. I also believe that there is more into nursing than that simple definition of this term. Generally, being a nurse is the dream of my whole life, first of all, because it is a very influential and rewarding profession. I am the one who is given a chance to take care for people through illness, injury, pain, loss, dying, grieving, birth, growth, aging and health. Moreover, I do not only care for people through illness, but I do my best to promote people’s health, prevent diseases and educate the public.

Becoming a nurse is not a case of randomized selection of a future profession. This dream dates back to my childhood. While being a small kid I took care of my Granny who fell ill and needed care. It means that nursing is a profession that is concerned with helping others. However, it is not that easy to become a nurse. I understood this issue earlier and tried my best to prepare myself for a future work.

The work of nurse is based on only on great theoretical knowledge but on patience and practice. Also, it is a well known truth that the field of nursing requires enormous strength and patience. A whole thing is not a big wonder for me since from early childhood I took care of people from my surrounding. The list includes children and elderly people.

The other important thing is that nursing is a field that is concerned with helping people. Still, as I told you before a simple desire to become a nurse is not enough to reach success in this field. Under the circumstances like these it is essential for a nurse to be open, strong, determined, thoughtful and caring. When combined together, these qualities might help a nurse to become successful in her career. When combined together, these qualities would reflect on the nurse and would make caring for the patient easier. I also believe that nursing is my ideal occupation. As a child, I believed that I belonged to this field. The feeling like this is largely because I always wanted to bring positive changes into person’s life. I always felt the need to care for someone who is suffering and needs attention. I know that the decision like that needs personal strength and power. I felt that power when I gave birth to my son and adopted my stepchildren. I am also practicing Christian religion. My infatuation with Christianity helps be to achieve balance in this life. I also became very close both to my parents and my siblings. The close relations with my parents and siblings give me strength to make a good decision in this life. As a result, I do believe in virtues in this life. That fact gives me fun and helps to retain balance in this life.

Now I am making progress in my career. At present I am employed as an RN. Now I am working on mine BSN with hopes of becoming a CRNA.

Just a few words must be told about my earlier years of life since that period in my life helped to shape my idea about this life and my mission in it.

I had rather difficult life. Growing up in poor family has greatly influenced my desire to take care of people. My former life gave me a chance to observe the life of different kinds of people. Many of these people have to live in poverty. During this period of my life I took care of many infants, children, elderly people and even disabled people. That kind of experience was very beneficial for me since I got an opportunity to see the other side of life. I saw many people who were not able to give a proper care to their ailing relatives.

Whenever I see suffering people, I feel so weak. In many cases I experienced the desire to help these people. It wasn’t until I moved to by college campus here in the United States that I realized that nursing is truly the right occupation for such a person as I am. Campus life made me change many things in this life. Slowly I started to realize many things I failed to realize in the earlier stages of my life. Moving to the other place helped me to start communicating with the people like me. Now I am more aware of the situation in which I was before. Actually, I became more mature. Now I know that I can change this world for a better place. Becoming a nurse would help me to give help to those people who are suffering, and to those who need my help. Another reason for my decision to become a nurse is my brother, who devoted himself to becoming a nursing assistant. My brother suggested me the idea to become a doctor. My brother told me that I will become a good specialist. The stories like these usually make people inspired. Just the same has happened to me. It is such an adorable feeling of giving yourself to a complete stranger in their greatest time. There is nothing like that on the earth. I truly believe that I suited that place.  I am an honest person what implies on the fact that I am open to communication. That fact gives me a feeling that I have all important traits that might help me to become a nurse.  My communication skills is one more contributing factor to becoming a very good nurse. Nurses are the main communication link. This link helps to connect the patient with the doctor.

A whole thing helps me to interact with family members. On a personal level, I have the opportunity to impact someone’s everyday life. The impact is very great. In other words, my new attitude to a whole thing can change things and help humans to become better. That is something that must be remembered. This principle will be remembered for a whole life. That is the idea I will hold to during all my life. As for nursing, this is one of the few careers that does not only help others. This career is helpful for personal revelation – in fact you are becoming better. The profession is really exiting what means that it allows person to receive constant opportunity to obtain more knowledge about a whole issue. The work of a nurse can be characterized as tough. It means that the work of a nurse allows opportunity for learning something new everyday. Even toughness of the working schedule of a number does not withdraw me from the idea of pursuing the career of nurse.

Now I have decided to take very important step in my life – earn my Bachelor’s degree. The good news about a whole thing is that my new degree will allow me to increase my earning potential and enhance my nursing skills. Generally speaking, RNs with a Bachelor’s degree will be a chance for me to increase my career perspectives what will enable me to receive better job opportunities than I had before. Earning my Bachelor’s degree will also help me to expand my opportunities in different work settings thus giving me a chance to move to different leadership roles. The other important benefit will be a chance to build on my understanding of the science and theory that lies behind nursing.