Enigma of Nursing Life: Must Be Solved and Directed To The Conventional Path

During my second year of nursing school, our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. Jones

Between a nursing student and a nurse, what would make a difference among the two? Maybe, of course, in the common point of view, the variation can be seen in terms of their state wherein the one is a person who’s undergoing education for the sake of being a nurse in the near future while the other is someone who engaged already with the proper upbringing in order to be skilled as well as trained in the healthcare of the sick and at present is applying what he learned as a nursing student. But looking at the inmost sense of what is a nursing student and of what is a nurse, we can say that the two people concerned can be modified interchangeably. It means that the endpoint and the commencing point of the labors of a nursing student and a nurse respectively are achieved because of the bountiful effects of the lives and experiences acquired as a nursing student and as a nurse. When it comes to the endpoint of a nursing student that’s when he already finished for instance the necessary education, the goal of becoming a nurse is at hand or can now be reached. On the other hand, the commencing point of a nurse, someone who is a fresh graduate from the nursing course can be attributed with the aid of the skills, knowledge and trainings inherited from his life as a student who’s a soon-to-be nurse. With the said testimonials, one can assure the fact that the terms “nursing student” and “nurse” are interconnected yet interchangeable in the broad sense.
As to be considered as a versatile nursing student moreover a versatile nurse someday, several principles are to be abided. These principles will help someone especially a person desiring to be a nurse somehow. They will ignite the needed passion to face all the odds that will be encountered as one journey to the road of becoming a zealous nurse. The first principle is that of providing a vision. If you want to be a well-rounded nurse at sometime in the future, you should create a vision of studying well and good enough to reap the prerequisite of the nursing course so that you can move on to the next principle, to achieve the goal of finishing your course with zeal, honor and confidence to be called as a well-to-do nurse as you begin a duty of service to your fellowmen in order for you to consequently apply the most promising and significant principle, the notion of losing yourself in the service of others specifically of the sick and those who are in need of thy care. With this tertiary principle, you can really say that a nurse is a clever one because his heart is amongst of his concerns for the life of humanity, for its caring and healing. In addition, obeying such principle as a nurse will produce great sentiments in his part and in the part of his patients pursuing the adage by an anonymous, “As a nurse, you will touch a life or a life will touch yours.” Following these three-fold principles will assure the desire of someone who is eager to become a versatile nurse to the extent of accomplishment and to the point of considering one as reliable and worthy enough to be a nurse especially when you put one’s self for the namesake and the innermost sake of the so-called “service”.
Beneath the principles stated in the preceding paragraph, one thing should be present. It must be the foremost strenuous wall that will nurture the said principles. Without its presence, these principles cannot be put in the surface of reality and in one way or another, the aim of becoming a nurse will not be attained. The factor that is referred to which is oftentimes very in demand in order to achieve the success of obtaining the title “nurse” is none other than “sacrifice”. This word is utmost in terms of acquiring wellness and satisfaction in all of our endeavors. In the case of nursing students vitalizing the intimate definition of sacrifice is a must. You should learn to sacrifice things for the welfare of your aspiration to be nurses. Also, you should know how to motivate yourselves about the inherent reasons and consequences as well of having a practice in sacrificing different components of your lives even at least for a meantime for the regards of your objective of becoming nurses. Based on established experiences, sacrifice as a nursing student can be observed as exerting intellectual and physical dexterities more than enough to excel in one’s academic performance e.g. doing paper works, coming to school and going home undertaking a far away distance, sleeping very late at night just to spend a quality time to review for quizzes and examinations, torturing at times one’s mentality or challenging mental limitation just to surpass the onset of getting above average grades especially in the segment of the scholars who’re enthusiastic to maintain or as much as possible pass beyond their intellectual greatness. On the other side, sacrifice can be viewed as spending your time and your effort to your study not more than enough but just enough to pass in school’s subjects. This perception is from the average group. Sacrifice can still be noticed not only in the context of the experiences in academic stability but also in personal experiences in compliance to the plea of his determination to be a nurse. It means that sacrifice resembles conforming to one’s desire to be a vivid nurse wherein one sacrifices meantime the time for his loved ones in order to comply with his purpose to finish education and eventually become a nurse like someone whose family is in the province while he’s away from them focusing and working out to his study.
An assertion that sacrifice is superb was uttered by a nursing student from I-G: “Ang sakripisyo ay sadyang napakahalaga sa pagtamo ng ating mithiin sa buhay. Sa parte nating mga mag-aaral dito sa FEU-NRMF, ito ang magbibigay daan upang unti-unti nating mabuksan ang pintuan patungo sa antas na kung saan abot-kamay na natin an gating pangarap at iyon ay maging mga nars na dahil sinubok ng panahon at pinigaan ng mga sakripisyo ay maituturing na karapat-dapat para sa titulong “Mga Huwarang Nars ng Modernong Panahon”. Sa bawat sakripisyo na binibigay natin, tayo’y nabibigyan naman ng higit na pag-asa at posibilidad na makuha ang ating mga minimithi sa buhay.”

To collate things up, we can logically say that if you aim to become a nurse in the mere future, you should first undergo to a life of a debonair student who has the innate vision to reach a desire, a goal and an aspiration. Within the ground of the life of a nursing student, one must adequately offer sacrifices wherein as he tend to sacrifice his time, effort, etc., certain sacrifices are also being rendered to him by his fate/destiny and these are sacrificing its time, effort etc. for the betterment and fulfillment of what he want to have in his life specifically the attainment of being identified as a nurse. Aside from sacrifices, various principles are to be obeyed so one can have an assurance of being a proper nursing student subsequently of being a one of a kind nurse. One wellspring among these principles should be considered as to be of vital importance and that is losing yourself in the service of others. Acquiring in your core a love for serving others will help you to be an effective and effective nurse as well as influential in a way to other nurses. As to be a service-centered nurse someday, you must learn to signify all the individuals you will meet as you venture your life of service to those who are in need most of your attention and care. If you’ll learn this manner, you can assess the long term period of your nursing profession and you can undoubtedly pursue the fact that serving people will give you a great reward not only in this world but also in the kingdom of God because you’re working in accordance to God’s image as the saying goes by: “God takes many forms and one is in the spirit of a nurse” wherein the people you served and will be serving will look upon you as God in human form who is fulfilling the legacy of healing the sick physically and as much as possible spiritually now and beyond.