Nursing Career Research Paper

MY PROFESSIONAL NURSING CAREER GOALS My love for nursing started from a general love for the medical field and my fascination with medicine and technology. At first I had started out on a study path that would lead me to become a doctor. I had majored in Microbiology and wanted to apply to medical school. During an internship as a microbiologist in one of the hospital in my country, I noticed that the nurses actually had more contact with patients than the doctors. I also observed that the doctors actually depended on the nurses’ report as well as our laboratory findings to actually make a diagnosis. It was thrilling for me to observe that the doctor’s proper diagnosis really depended on excellent team work, mostly from the nurses’ reports and lab diagnosis. This made me think highly of nurses. I truly respect the caring touch, role as teacher, coordinator and patient advocate that nurses bring to the health care industry.
I had a baby girl 21 months ago, She was born at 25 weeks gestation and weighed just over 1 lb 12 ounces; the experience would have been devastating if not for the role of the nurses at the emergency room who helped stabilize me and my baby as I went through a precipitous, spontaneous premature labor. Their skill, dexterity and critical thinking knowledge saved my life and that of my baby before we could get to the labor and delivery unit .Their dedication to each patient that comes in to that fast- paced unit put me in awe of the profession and made me decide firmly to pursue a career in