I'm a Nurse Because I Want to Heal the World

Professional mission statement 

I'm a nurse because I want to heal the world. My main objective is to become a problem solver by applying my social, technical, and medical skills to make my patients feel cared for and important. I want to achieve the highest levels achievable in my professional life, finding fulfilment in helping my patients get better and quality experience. I aim to develop my career and hopefully become a psychiatric nurse to bridge the gap between physical medicine and mental health. I want to achieve a professional career where my passion leads to new challenges and opportunities to gain new skills. I aspire to fulfil my potential and abilities by utilizing all resources available to help my medical organization to meet its objectives. I want to build a dynamic and passionate career where I can grow and help my patients get better. 

Professional Summary 

The first artifact is my letter of admission to this school. My academic experience fostered a drive within me to become a caring, hardworking, and self-driven individual. Over my years of study, I have maintained excellent grades while balancing working and volunteering. This has made me efficient at time management, which an essential skill for any nurse. 

Another vital artifact in my portfolio is the letter of recommendation from my volunteer work. I have worked under various experienced nurses who helped horn my skills and picked up significant knowledge and pointers from them. I also worked with experienced doctors who helped me understand what doctors need from as a nurse. 

Another artifact is my research project. Through the many nursing courses and programs, I have worked and dedicated my life to improving my skills and gaining knowledge. Through this, I have become a competent nurse who is valuable to my patients and medical organizations. I have been equipped with research skills to strengthen me as a nurse. This has helped me acquire knowledge that is very fundamental to my career. In school, I have learned decision-making tools that will be very important in situations where I have to make quick judgments and decisions as a health professional. 

My internship program gave me real-life experience working in a medical environment that gave me invaluable experience. This is very important because I was able to access my strengths and weakness while working on real cases. I also interacted with experienced medical professionals who have all taken care of my thirst for knowledge. I have picked essential skills from them by observing their work. I interacted with real patients and experienced first-hand the burn out medical professionals go through as they strive to provide health care. 

Challenges of Nursing program 

Doing a nursing program requires dedication, commitment, and a thirst for knowledge. One of the major problems I have faced throughout the program is time constraints and fatigue. Working through school is hectic, but doing a nursing course and is even more challenging. I have dedicated my life to fulfilling my objectives of becoming a professional nurse. It was challenging balancing grueling lectures and work shifts. I learned to take flexible jobs and have jobs that have flexible working hours. This allowed me to work on my program and still work a bit. 

Throughout the program, I have had to learn how to schedule unpredictable clinical. Patient assignments are very variable, and it's even harder to predict the amount of time they will take. This is very challenging because, at the same time, I have constant assignments and projects that have to be submitted on time. With experience, I learned to schedule my tasks, especially when I had patient assignments. With the clinical programs, I solely concentrated on finishing them individually. This helped to get the most out of them. 

Nursing projects are taxing and time-consuming. This is because the variety is wide. I had to learn how to schedule a case study or a research project, and this can be stressful, but fulfilling when one gets it done. I sharpened my research skills to be a bit more time-efficient and read a lot of medical books, and this helped me with assignments and research. 

Coursework outcomes 

Nursing is medical science. This is evidenced by the years in laboratories and medical environments. My nursing program taught me how to test for pathogens and how to treat them. This requires scientific knowledge. As a nurse, most of the times, we are required to diagnose patients by carefully working through the symptoms and relating them to past cases and experience; this requires handy detective skills. One of the first things I learned in my clinical programs was how to manage a medical environment to prevent the spread of diseases and coordinate with fellow medical professionals. 

Growth 

As a nursing student, the journey is all about growth. In the beginning, I was just a student, and down the line, I learned I was a nursing student. I was a caregiver, even though I was learning. Countless hours in clinical programs and lecture halls helped me morph into a health student. I can now administer first aids CPR, diagnose some infections, work in a healthy environment, and interact with health professionals. 

Quality and Safety 

Quality and safety developed in professional roles and values are the cornerstones to providing safe and ethical care to patients while integrating nurses' perspectives on decision making and patient care. My program helped me develop this definition by studying how roles and values are applied in a working healthcare environment. Some of the artifacts, such as CPR certification, help promote ethical care by ensuring that nurses who get this certification pass all the ethical and professional tests. 

Institute of Healthcare Improvement will be helpful in my future career as a nurse as it will provide a platform for me to network with my colleagues. A place where I can share and benefit from expertise. Their leadership forums will help me take on more leadership responsibilities. 

Evidence-Based Practice 

Evidence-based practice is the use of current best evidence while making any decision about healthcare. This means that as a nurse, I must be in touch with new research and literature to be able to practice EBP (Gail L. Ingersoll, 2010). My nursing program helped me with this definition by introducing me to a literature review and research practices throughout my nursing program. 

My N95 Mask-Fit Testing card is one of the artifacts that show I have gone through EBP because it is one of the stepping stone in becoming a nurse. It shows that I'm tested, and it comes in handy in preventing the spread of air-borne diseases. 

Throughout my nursing program, I have learned the importance of research and reading current healthcare literature. In analyzing research, I have learned to distinguish between those that are believable and applicable to each case and the research that is irrelevant duet to various reasons. Primary research is more credible because the researchers conducted the research themselves which is essential while establishing new cases. Secondary research means that the authors are citing someone else research. It is essential when setting common research. 

While researching any topic, it is paramount to consider relevancy and believability. Any source that is not relevant should not be used as a source, and any source that is not based on facts should not be used either. Quality improvement is a standard procedure in health facilities where we identify problems in facilities and practices, and we rectify them to improve outcomes in caregiving. The research comes after this happens, and we need to back up the changes we made with data. It involves developing a hypothesis and testing the theory to produce a sound evidence-based conclusion. 

Applied Leadership 

Applied leadership is clinical leadership that focuses on healthcare teams and patients rather than position leadership. This is achieved by focusing on professional activities that are applied to the patient's bedside (AL-Dossary, 2016). My program helped me understand what applied leadership is by organizing my colleagues in teams and me when doing some coursework and engaging with them on how to go about the case. My letter of recommendation from my clinical programs shows that I understood what applied leadership is. 

Importance of leadership 

Collaboration for effective nurse leadership because it helps to facilitate motivation coordination and effective communication to achieve optimal results in inpatient care. Collaboration also means that everyone is aware of what is expected of them and the critical role they play in the organization of a health facility. 

Community and Population Health 

Population health is the health outcome and distribution of said outcomes with a group of individuals (Kulbock, 2009). In my clinical program, I got to observe a lot of population health, especially in community medical facilities. 

In my community health task, I learned that social isolations are one of the major causes of physical illnesses in a community. People who are alone, get sick more often, and visit medical facilities often. There is also a significant link between mental health and physical health. From my task, I observed that people who regularly attended community health facilities for physical illnesses had mental health issues. I learned this from the literature review in my class, and it happened to be the truth in most communities; I had my clinical programs. 

Initially, I was reluctant to help the patients since I had no formal training in mental health. I talked to my supervisor, who was able to arrange mental health programs in these communities. That turned out to be a good thing as these patients attended the facilities less frequently than before. 

Importance of the American Museum of Natural History Certificate 

Nursing as a profession is critical because it bridges the gap between research discovery and their adaptation in optimizing health care. It is important to know family histories to help patients with decision making. Getting the AMNH certification helps me in utilizing genomic and genetic research in caregiving. It will also help me to advise at-risk patients and refer them to specialized care. 

References 

AL-Dossary, R. N. (2016). Leadership in Nursing. 

Gail L. Ingersoll. (2010). Evidence-based nursing: What it is and what it isn't. Nursing Outlook . 

Kulbock, P. A. (2009). Evolving Public Health Nursing Roles: Focus on Community Participatory Health Promotion and Preventio. OJN .