What is the profession that I am aiming for? Primitive definitions include a 'person who provides services a patients illness or injury while faithfully reporting to a doctor'. Others describe a nun's devotion to her religious order calling her to care for the wounded and ill.
The odd part is that, after the entire class, I am still entirely unsure of what exactly a nurse is. Sure, I see the nurses on ER and Grey's run around with perfect hair, saving patients left and right, while dating Dr. Hottie on the side, but seriously - that's utter rubbish. I'd like to know, straight up, what is Nursing?
My prof. said the following: "...nursing has been around forever; the Nursing profession was initiated by Florence Nightingale in the 1800's; nursing involves medicine; Nurses can practice Medicine and Physicians can practice nursing."
Thank you for such clear words.
According to the definition provided by the TWU School of Nursing, 'Nursing is the study of human health and illness processes. Nursing practice is facilitation, supporting and assisting individuals, family, communities and/or societies to enhance, maintain and recover health, and to reduce and ameliorate the effects of illness. Nursing's relational practice and science are directed toward to the explicit outcome of health related quality of life within the immediate and larger environmental contexts'. That's quite the job description. Am I ready for that to my job description?
The world of Nursing is so vast, I will totally admit I can't even comprehend it. Last year, a graduate student from TWU became a flight nurse, working for rescue teams way way way up north. How sweet of a job would that be? But that is in such a contrast to the public health nurse who administers traveler's immunizations from 9 to 5 every day. So how could Nursing be defined definitively, or even defined in three sentences or less? It's a lot to think about, to mull over.
Love, D.
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