Becoming An Obstetric Nurse

The Nurse I Aspire to Be Ever since I can remember I have always wanted to be a nurse. I always wanted to be the person to help bandage people up when they got hurt. As a child, my four sisters and I would pretend to be patients having something wrong with us. Being the patient was fun and all but I wanted to be the nurse every chance I could get. Our mom even went along with it because she would load us up with lots of Band-Aids, gauze, leg wraps, eye patches and medical tape. She also was on the path of nursing at the time. I watched her many nights studying for tests, flipping through her books and what seemed like hundreds of flash cards. She really made an impact on myself because she taught us to never give up on something you really
The first thing in becoming an obstetrics nurse is getting into a nursing program and earning baccalaureate degree in nursing. “ Preparation for a baccalaureate nurse is 4 to 5 years in length and focuses on classes in liberal arts, humanities and sciences. The emphasis in the baccalaureate-nursing program is on developing critical decision-making skills, exercising independent nursing judgment, and acquiring research skills. The graduate of a baccalaureate program is prepared to provide health promotion and health restoration care for individuals, families and communities” (Zerwekh & Zerwekh-Garneau, 2015). Once nursing school is over, I am than eligible to take the NCLEX nursing licensure exam. After passing the NCLEX exam, you would then be a registered nurse. According to becoming an obstetric nurse, “Once you get a minimum of two years and 2,400 hours of experience in obstetrics, you can then test in the National Certification Corporation’s (NCC) Inpatient Obstetric Nursing certification exam and become a certified obstetric nurse”. An obstetric nurse helps new moms through out their pregnancy and then upon delivery of their
I want to be the strong for new mothers whenever they are not able. I also know that being an obstetric nurse isn’t always going to be happy because newborn are very delicate and sometimes don’t survive. I feel like no one is really prepared for a death of an infant, but I would want to be able to consul those families to the best of my abilities. With that being said I will gladly except any and all of the challenges that come with being an obstetric nurse and hopefully impacting new mothers that I will eventually have the pleasure of working