My name is LF. I am a registered nurse for 7 years now. I currently work at WCH in MI and I also work very part time at GSRMC. I am an Emergency Department Nurse. Every day is a different experience from one extreme to another.
Nursing is an ever changing, always learning, and never ending practice by a special person, trained by special people to provide care for even more special people. I use this definition because every day I am told that I am a special person to be able to do what I do. Nursing requires assessment, analyzing, diagnosis, identification, interventions, outcomes, planning, teaching, education, implementation, treatment, providing, evaluating, revising, and counseling. While using all of these skills nursing also provides for people using professional, ethical, culturally and age sensitive care, safely. Nursing exist because it is important in all healthcare fields to have someone be an advocate for patients in all aspects of care, keeping people healthy or during their time of need, physically and or emotionally. I practice nursing because it gives me the opportunity to make someone feel better emotionally or physically by being there or showing them I care at the most vital time.
Assumptions or underlying beliefs are understood and valued differently depending on who is assuming and who believes. In the nursing field I feel there are many assumptions that can be viewed as a negative or positive. I think our assumptions originally stem from our values or beliefs that we have learned through life. When I first started nursing I believed or assumed that everyone took care of themselves. I assumed that they had family or friends to help them when they could not. I would have never assumed that there are people in this world that live alone but cannot see or hear or feel what they are doing or fall down and lay there for days before someone