NR 393 Nursing History Week 1 Discussion Reflection on Leadership and Provision of Care
NR 393 Nursing History Week 1 Discussion Reflection on Leadership and Provision of Care
Purpose:
The purpose of this reflection is for learners to reflect on current practice and the impact that nursing history has on their leadership and/or provision of care.
Course Outcomes:
This reflection enables the student to meet the following course outcome:
CO1: Describe persons and events in nursing history from the early years through the 19th century related to leadership and provision of care. (PO2)
Directions:
Reflection is an activity that involves your deep thought into your own experiences related to the concepts of the week. Answers should be detailed.
Use the rubric on this page as you compose your answers.
Scholarly sources are NOT required for this reflection.
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Reflection Question
Reflect on your current practice. How does nursing history impact your leadership and/or care provision? Please include specific nursing history persons or events in your reflection.
My experience as a nurse reminds me of Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale was the first emergency nurse. She revolutionized nursing, basically set the blueprint for nursing practice. She is the guide to all nurses of how we should be and what we should strive for as nurses. In my nursing practice, I always look for evidence-based guidelines when I am caring for my patients. I question current practices, and I use critical thinking, intuition, and follow my heart. I seek knowledge in books and from my experienced peers. I compare my work practice from my shifts, and I find better ways to be better the next shift. I am always thinking, what can I do better today? How can I provide better care for my patients today? I believe every time I care for someone, every time I save a life, educate, prevent, inspire, and touch, I am making history. I have so much in my power, especially when I am working as a relief charge nurse to help all the patients I come in contact with. Today Nurses run the hospital. With today’s evidence-based practice, we have the tools and knowledge to provide the safest and compassionate care to our patients. When I have made a difference in someone’s life, that’s a piece of history. I believe that helping patients and educating them on preventive care, and helping them be more compliant can be great for generational health. Educate families you give the power to help themselves.
One of the things that I find most rewarding about my job is when I have a moment with a patient where I feel like I made a difference. I always try to look at the situation and think to myself that they have no idea what is going on and most of the time our patients are anxious over the unknown. Even something so simple as running an EKG is terrifying because they want to know why its being done, is it going to hurt, what does the result show, among many other questions when we as healthcare professionals know it could just be as a reference pre-op or to see if their lab values are impacting their heart at all. I enjoy when I get to essentially sooth their anxiety through talking to them and educating them on what it is used for so they don’t worry about their health. I also enjoy when I can give family members peace of mind about their loved ones and let them know that everything is going well or give them updates about their conditions.
Communication is such a key part of our job because it allows us to successfully take care of our patients and provide positive outcomes. We are the ones who are with them for extended periods of time and taking care of them so its so important that we keep them involved in their care. “Skillful communication is related to improved health care outcomes, such as patient satisfaction, therapy compliance, symptom resolution, and physiological parameters or improved health status” (D’souza, Devi, and Sheilini, 2013). Taking care of patients is not just doing all the tasks of nursing but also being there and providing emotional support. Nursing history has taught us that nurses are an incredibly valued and trusted profession and that is because we are the ones who are there for our patients emotionally and physically and that is one thing that will always be at the foundation of our profession.
Reference:
D’souza G., Devi E., Sheilini M. (2013). Communication Pattern, Attitude Towards Importance of Communication and Factors Affecting Communication among Nursing Graduates Working in Cardiac Units. International Journal of Nursing Care.
I was not always 100% interested in becoming a nurse. I did grow up in a Lutheran school and was raised from Kindergarten on to follow in Christ’s footsteps. I cared for my grandmother naturally as she was disabled; helping her to dress, rinse off in the shower, or wash her hair in the kitchen sink. My family called me ‘Nurse Kelly’ when I was young. I changed my mind several times on what I wanted to do, but I always wanted to work in a helping field. Eventually, I chose nursing again as I felt it made sense in my life.
I thought it was interesting that St. Basil, Brother Gerard, and St. Camillus were fathers of nursing teaching us the value of advocacy and caring for the poor, hands on work, but also St. Camillus was the founder of hospice care which is one of the areas I work in. Caring for the sick and dying and promoting their quality of life in their end times is one of the most gratifying areas of nursing.
Learning more about the foundation of current nursing practice, I feel more like the field suits me. You certainly do not have to be a Christian to be a nurse, but the foundation of Christianity is supposed to share the level of compassion and care that nurses give to their patients every day. I firmly believe I would have likely chosen to become a deaconess back when women were offered education for their commitment – maybe with a lowly alternative of just becoming someone’s wife, I would have chosen the commitment of serving others while my needs were met and having freedom to continue my faith as well as the option to return to my parents and marry later.
I had no idea that Florence Nightingale visited the Deaconess hospital and that she was impressed with the level of care or that this is how nurses began being required to test into the field. I learned a lot from this section already about nursing history and feel more-so that the field fits my attitude towards others.
I was not always 100% interested in becoming a nurse. I did grow up in a Lutheran school and was raised from Kindergarten on to follow in Christ’s footsteps. I cared for my grandmother naturally as she was disabled; helping her to dress, rinse off in the shower, or wash her hair in the kitchen sink. My family called me ‘Nurse Kelly’ when I was young. I changed my mind several times on what I wanted to do, but I always wanted to work in a helping field. Eventually, I chose nursing again as I felt it made sense in my life.
I thought it was interesting that St. Basil, Brother Gerard, and St. Camillus were fathers of nursing teaching us the value of advocacy and caring for the poor, hands on work, but also St. Camillus was the founder of hospice care which is one of the areas I work in. Caring for the sick and dying and promoting their quality of life in their end times is one of the most gratifying areas of nursing.
Learning more about the foundation of current nursing practice, I feel more like the field suits me. You certainly do not have to be a Christian to be a nurse, but the foundation of Christianity is supposed to share the level of compassion and care that nurses give to their patients every day. I firmly believe I would have likely chosen to become a deaconess back when women were offered education for their commitment – maybe with a lowly alternative of just becoming someone’s wife, I would have chosen the commitment of serving others while my needs were met and having freedom to continue my faith as well as the option to return to my parents and marry later.
I had no idea that Florence Nightingale visited the Deaconess hospital and that she was impressed with the level of care or that this is how nurses began being required to test into the field. I learned a lot from this section already about nursing history and feel more-so that the field fits my attitude towards others.