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Today in social issues class, we were introduced to 6 Christian nurses who had served in the profession for the last 20 years. It was amazing to talk to them and hear all of their experiences. Most of them had done a variety of things which made me realize that with Nursing we have so much to chose from. We don't always have to do the same thing all our life, we can always move around to different aspects of nursing and attain a broad spectrum of knowledge and experience.
The nurse our group was assigned to was a flight nurse. She told us all the experiences she had during the war times. When I had asked her about how she integrated her faith with her professional life, she said that it was not important to be a Christian to be a good Nurse. By treating each patient with dignity, respect, and keeping in mind that they were human beings and need to be treated with care was all that was needed. Also she told us the importance of meeting the basic needs of the patient which according to her has been diminishing with time. Sometimes we feel we are too busy to go and greet everybody or talk to them but we should keep in mind, a small act of going to our clients and greeting them or spending sometime with them can really change the way they feel about things and even themselves. Furthermore, in the past few days I have been returning from clinicals carrying everything from the Nursing home in my heart and mind. I do not want to continue doing this because it is imprtant to learn to keep professional life separate from personal life. Just as I cannot take my personal problems to my work place, so I should not with my professional life. Hence, in the class discussion I learned how to find a friend preferably of the same profession to talk about your problems and let it out of you before you go home. It makes you feel better when the weight has lifted from your chest rather than carrying it with you into your personal life.
It was great to talk to all the nurses and I learned some great values and they gave us some good advice that I would keep in mind while preparing to enter my career.
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Post # 7
ReplyDeleteYou make a great point, Priya, that we shouldn't be taking our professional life home with us, and vice-versa. We need to make a distinction between work and home. If we don't, it can cause problems in either environment.
I've heard it said that if you start to care too much about your patients, that you can have "care-overload". If this happens, then we feel like we can't care about anyone else other than our patients. We can go home to our families and children some day and just have no energy to care for them. This is when it becomes a problem. There has to be a balance about how much we care for our patients at work and those people that we have back at home. We have to make a distinction and realize that if we burn out in one area, it will affect the other. There needs to be a separation, but also moderation in what we do in both environments. Without the distinction, we can begin to bring problems that we are having at home to our work, which will then affect how we treat the patients. The same is true of problems that occur at work. If we have made a mistake while at work and then continue thinking about it for the rest of the day at home, our families will be affected by our mood. If we continually do this, our home life will suffer, or vice-verse. Everything is about making the distinction and moderation.