Personal Narrative: A Career In Nursing

My mom taught me to live by the Golden Rule; do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I have lived by this rule all my life. I have never had a problem getting along with others and treating them with respect until I started my nursing career as an LPN. I started working at the local hospital, working night shift. I really enjoyed going into work, helping the patients with their needs. I enjoyed visiting with them and finding out what would make their stay better. Then one day the supervising nurse in charge of the floor took me aside and told me to stop visiting with the patients. I was thinking to myself okay there has got to be a good reason behind this. She told me the patients need their sleep and they don’t need me to visit with them and keep them awake.
Soon after that some of the patients that we tagged as lifers {being there for more than a week} started to notice that I wasn’t spending as much time with them and they wanted to know why. The only thing I told them was they needed their sleep and I was being considerate of that. Next thing I know the supervising nurse tells me that I’m not spending enough time with the patients. I didn’t know what to do, on one hand I was spending too much time and on the other hand it wasn’t enough. So, I compromised. The supervising nurse still wasn’t happy with