What Nurses Want
As busy nurses, we know what exactly we want. This will feature areas in our life that we can learn from, either as a light informational reading or as a practical guide in our daily lives and activities.
THE SHIFT
Being a nurse is already special in itself, but the nursing profession is making it the best of the professions because of the so many specializations it has, thus making a nurse practically impossible to be unemployed. RN gives the nurse not only the license but the capacity to become one practitioner of its multiple areas of skills & competences in related fields.
I have been a bedside, critical nurse for over thirty years and aware that I will never be always strong to carry on with the stress and physical demands of this specialty. For several years, I have been preparing for the greatest shift that I have to do at this stage. First, I took my masters degree specializing in education. Today, after setting the Virtual Nursing office that I have been dreaming of for eight years, I am ready to make that shift from the hospital setting to the community.
This Shifting doesn't make me less of a nurse, but rather am continuing a specialty as a community health advocate to prevent the state of critical illness that an individual may end up with if not prevented. Whether I am in the bedside taking care of critically ill patients or in the community advocating for health, I am still a nurse. I can relate to both areas because caring is their common factor.
I am shifting now. I hope that you too will take this long term planning because we will always be nurses in everything we do. I made my choice, what about you?
Myrna D. Santos, MSN, RN
Being a nurse is already special in itself, but the nursing profession is making it the best of the professions because of the so many specializations it has, thus making a nurse practically impossible to be unemployed. RN gives the nurse not only the license but the capacity to become one practitioner of its multiple areas of skills & competences in related fields.
I have been a bedside, critical nurse for over thirty years and aware that I will never be always strong to carry on with the stress and physical demands of this specialty. For several years, I have been preparing for the greatest shift that I have to do at this stage. First, I took my masters degree specializing in education. Today, after setting the Virtual Nursing office that I have been dreaming of for eight years, I am ready to make that shift from the hospital setting to the community.
This Shifting doesn't make me less of a nurse, but rather am continuing a specialty as a community health advocate to prevent the state of critical illness that an individual may end up with if not prevented. Whether I am in the bedside taking care of critically ill patients or in the community advocating for health, I am still a nurse. I can relate to both areas because caring is their common factor.
I am shifting now. I hope that you too will take this long term planning because we will always be nurses in everything we do. I made my choice, what about you?
Myrna D. Santos, MSN, RN
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