Have you ever wondered why nurses do what they do? This can mean, why they push themselves through the difficulty of nursing school or just the daily activities they have to perform as a Registered Nurse. Well, I have wondered this for a while now so I decided to do some research. I want to know how bad nursing school is, and why people push themselves to graduate if it is as hard as I have heard. I also want to know why nurses deal with the difficult tasks they must perform multiple times a day while working. If I can learn these things, I think it will help me endure nursing school and give me insight for the trials of being a nurse.

I have always assumed in any medical setting, the nurse just does the minor and basic tasks for he patients to keep them as comfortable and content as possible until the doctor is able to treat them. I also have heard that nursing school is very, very difficult so I think that it would be one of the most testing things to go through. I think to get through nursing school, you have to have a driving passion to learn to care for patients and medicine. I do not know much at all about the difficulties of nursing school though. Before I started this internship in the Emergency Room, I thought that nurses did not do much work on the patient, in fact I thought that the nurses basically gave shots, other medicines, and did paper work for the doctors but I am learning that the nurses do much more than that.

During this research process, I have learned so much. I have learned that nurses go through roughly six years of college. This is getting through core classes to graduating Nursing school and clinicals. During this educational process, Registered Nursing students learn far beyond shots and paperwork. They learn how to administer medicines, what to do with trauma situations, and how to deal with different people types, In Nursing School you also learn far beyond just medicine, they learn so much about the mental state of people and how to understand and deal with different people. I interviewed a Registered Nurse that I shadow in the Emergency Room and she told me the only reason she got through Nursing School was her “strive to want to help hurting and sick people”. She has loved doing things to help people since she was a small child and knew she was supposed to be a Nurse. I also discovered a quote in an article I found that discussed Nursing School and the transition into being a Registered Nurse after school. It is, “the truth is, you will never be fully prepared”. This quote came directly from the nurse who wrote the article. This just proves that every day is a learning experience even after nursing school. This was such an inspiration to keep striving to learn and be eager for those experiences. Nurses learn something new every day. I also learned while doing research that Registered Nurses “administer medications, care for wounds, perform physicals and coordinate care with other health professionals”. In my interview with Jessica, she also told me that there are many difficult and “not fun” tasks when being a Registered Nurse, but it is all worth it when you are able to help heal a patient. In these articles and the interview, there may be some bias because they were by Nurses or other professionals in the healthcare field.

From what I discovered, I have found that it is possible to make it through Nursing school if you have the driving passion to care for patients; it isn’t easy but it is worth it. I have also learned that Nurses do so much more than just keep a patient content while waiting for a doctor. Nurses actually do more hands on work for a patient than a doctor does in many cases. I think this is really nice because nurses get recognized for work but now knowing this I think Nurses should get more recognition and thanks for all they do. After hearing that Nursing school and the difficult tasks are worth it, this has made it clear that I want to be a registered Nurse so I can help patients feel cared for and to heal them. So, “Why do nurses do what they do?”, there are may different answers but the overall conenoses is because the difficulties are woth the triumph for the patient at the end of it all.   

 

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Flavin, Brianna. "Why Choose Nursing? Experts Reveal Their Reasons."Why Choose Nursing? Experts Reveal Their Reasons. Rasmussen, 30 Mar. 2015. Web. 10 Mar. 2016. <http://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/nursing/blog/why-choose-nursing/>.

Isaac, Celia. "What Does a Registered Nurse Do?" What Does a Registered Nurse Do? Rasmussen, n.d. Web. 5 Mar. 2016. <http://www.rasmussen.edu/degrees/nursing/blog/what-does-a-registered-nurse-do/>.

Xu, Elizabeth. "What I Wish Someone Told Me BEFORE Becoming a Registered Nurse." What I Wish Someone Told Me BEFORE Becoming a Registered Nurse. Rasmussen,  Web. 16 Feb. 2016

Interview with: Jessica Smith, RN