10/19 Assisgnment

Since starting my internship my perception of being a nurse has changed significantly. I have learned about all of the behind the scenes of being a nurse and learned that its not all its has been cracked out to be. There are sometimes long and tiring shifts that nurses take and tough patients that they often at times have to deal with. The most surprising thing I have learned from my internship is that, a lot of times, is that most of the nurses on staff become very close with the patients and in turn sometimes this makes the job harder because its harder to be objective and keep on task with certain things.

I have also learned that there are many boring parts to being a nurse and most of being a nurse is routine, such as taking a patients vitals. I have noticed however, that in emergency situations things are very high paced. I enjoy when we have interesting patients with different situations other than the norm, which is like the flu or a cold. All in all, I really like my internship because it offers the different extremes of being a nurse.

10/5 Assignment

For an assignment, I was asked to reflect on an article that I had read and write how this article would help enable me to write a paper. The article that I read described moral values in the field of nursing and how nurses must abide by certain moral behaviors. I could use this article to help explain the Code of Ethics in nursing and the article would also help me delve further into examining the philosophical and ethical values needed to go into a field such as nursing. I found this source very helpful and I would definitely use this source for any future projects pertaining to nursing. The overall article had a lot of useful quotes from doctors and notable nurses from the public health organization group, Nursing Ethics.

I could also use this article to talk about how nursing has changed throughout the years and how the morals that nurses had back in the day has drastically differed from those that nurses have in today’s modern society. The article also touched on the contrasting viewpoints of how to practice medicine, as far as technique goes, from the 18th century to nowadays. The main difference in the viewpoints comes from the different moral and ethical standings that people had in the varying time periods. I liked reading this article and found it to be extremely helpful for brainstorming ideas that I could include in a paper.

9/28 Assisgnment

Annotated Bibliography Graphic Organizer

Name: Savannah Girard

Source Bibliography	Kristoffersen, Margareth, and Febe Friberg. "The Nursing Discipline And Self-Realization." Nursing Ethics 22.6   (2015): 723-733. Consumer Health Complete - EBSCOhost. Web. 27 Sept. 2015.
Annotation:	The article describes moral values pertain to nursing and how nurses need to stay disciplined and abide by certain moral conducts. The article also touches on the philosophical standings of nursing and the different historical viewpoints of nursing through the years.
Potential Quotes:	“...nurses know that they have “the ability” to meet the patient with “respect” and “care.” (Page 4).
Assessment:	The article was published by notable doctors and a noteworthy Public Health organization group, Nursing Ethics. It was also found in the reference section of a notable website, Galileo.
Reflection:	I would potentially use this article to describe nursing morals and ethics. There are certain requirements needing to be meet in order to go into the field of nursing and most of those requirements include the code of ethics and a standing moral understanding. This article would be useful in examining that Code of Ethics.