I'm currently in the process of enrolling, well competing for enrollment, into LPN school. I'm working on the questions we were given to answer as part of our application...and am sort of stuck.
One of the questions is:
"Nursing is a conservative profession with high standards. Why do you think you would be a good fit for the profession?"
Now, I in no way want anyone to answer the question for me. I want very much to do this all on my own. Not to mention I believe the important part of the question is the part only I can answer.
I'm just curious if anyone could offer some enlightment or explanation to the "conservative profession" part. Conservative has so many definitions in the dictionary, not to mention it's political relation, that I'm at a loss exactly what the questioners intended meaning was.
I am not trying to get answers to the question. Just a better understanding of what the question means. :)
I think, as posted earlier, they mean conservative as in no crazy piercings/punked hair/no flip flops etc. Also in the sense that nurses are held to a higher moral standard by the public. If you've ever seen a story in the news about someone who got a DWI and happened to be a nurse, the media always plays upon the fact that it was "a NURSE from such-and-such town was arrested....." I can't remember ever hearing a broadcast saying "a 55-year old tax accountant from Dullsville was drunk behind the wheel...."
I think the key to being a successful nurse is bringing to the profession the right mix of conservative standards AND innovation, where you can respectfully push the envelope and blaze a trail or two. Good luck!
Agree that she probably did not mean politically conservative but it wouldn't hurt to ask for clarification on this one. Conservative can mean a lot of things to a lot of people.
I see it as conservative in care.. IE, you got to a MD with the sniffles and they prescribe you enough abx to kill a horse... you go to a NP and they tell you about netipots and give you something for allergies because abx are a last resort...
that is an odd question especially in todays world. When I think of the term conservative nurse, the image that 1st comes to mind is the white dress/hose/shoes and hat who stands up when the Dr enters and replies
"Yes Dr" with her head down.
One of our house supervisors is a gum chewing, multi bracelet/ring/necklace wearing, with teased highlighted hair gal,who happens to be in her mid 30s ...She has been known to call Drs "sweet cheeks" and "honey"----yet even though she looks dingy as all get out, she is smart, kind and dedicated. And if she doesnt drive you crazy with her baby talk and cackle of a laugh, to know her is to love her..and all the Drs amazingly respect her. Conservative---NO WAY...
i think that the nurse in the first paragraph hasn't existed in t
50 years
i tend to believe that conservative as used probably means that they like to have new ideas tested with clinical trials to determine if they are better than the old and not accept change for the sake of change
sometimes it is progressive and good and some times it endangers the very patients that it strives to help
In case anyone was wondering....this is how I ended up answering the question. It's a bit cheesy I think, but my brain was so fried from the whole ordeal I didn't have it in me to change it. What I have took long enough! :)
1.)Nursing is a conservative profession with high standards. Why do you think you would be good fit for the profession?
(There are so many definitions of “conservative” that it took me some time to decide on how best to answer this question. I wanted to make certain I was answering not only to the best of my ability but also that I was answering the questioner’s intended “conservative.” If I failed to grasp the correct meaning of the question, I apologize)
Nursing is a profession that calls for caution and an ability to follow the guidelines and “rules.” Patients, the public, put themselves in the hands and care of nurses. For the patient’s sake, caution and careful consideration of the whole situation and all its potential problems is of the utmost importance. Nurses are here to make certain patients are getting the best care possible. If a conservative approach to care isn’t taken, the patient could be the one suffer.
I feel like I would be a good fit, in the conservative sense, for the nursing profession for many reasons. Mainly because of my time in the United States Navy, as it has given me a great sense of the need to follow procedure and the discipline to do so. If a disaster situation occurred and I failed to do as I was trained, the result could be the loss of a ship mates life. It sounds a bit dramatic, but in a situation such as a ship going down, that is the reality. The military has high standards for similar reasons to nursing, lives could be at stake.
What does everyone think? It's all ready turned in by the way...so...thats that.
daisybaby, LPN
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I think, as posted earlier, they mean conservative as in no crazy piercings/punked hair/no flip flops etc. Also in the sense that nurses are held to a higher moral standard by the public. If you've ever seen a story in the news about someone who got a DWI and happened to be a nurse, the media always plays upon the fact that it was "a NURSE from such-and-such town was arrested....." I can't remember ever hearing a broadcast saying "a 55-year old tax accountant from Dullsville was drunk behind the wheel...."
I think the key to being a successful nurse is bringing to the profession the right mix of conservative standards AND innovation, where you can respectfully push the envelope and blaze a trail or two. Good luck!