My Nursing Philosophy Statement

My Philosophy
Nursing is a career not just a job, nursing is treating people as a disease, but as a unique individual who has his/her own values, beliefs, needs, and also treat the family with respect, compassion, patience, and show that we care. I chose nursing because I have always liked helping people. Ever since I was a little girl I liked helping and I would tell my dad that if he was ever sick I would take care of him so he could get better. At first I wanted to be a doctor, a pediatrician to be exact, but I chose nursing because, nurses have more contact with patients and nursing school is shorter than medical school. I know I made the right choice because as I have been doing clinicals, I have been falling more and more in love with what nurses do, but throughout the process I have also seen what kind of nurse I do not want to be. During clinicals there was an agency nurse a patient did
She had a hard time trying to say what she wanted. One day I was helping to get her ready to get out of bed and she got really frustrated and she was screaming at the CNA. We got her out of bed and the CNA left and she said that she did not like that CNA and she apologized to me and she started crying and she told me that she missed her husband so I told her that after her physical therapy I would help her call her husband. I stayed in the room with her and she told be to sit down with her and she started telling me about how she used to paint and when I was almost time to leave for the day and we had summer break, I told her that I would be back on the 8th, she told me that she wanted me to keep visiting her and when we went back on the 8th she had been discharged, but it made me feel good inside that I was able to make her smile and that she actually trusted me and wanted me to be