GraceAnna

Going on my 7th year of college (involving changing my major 3 times, having a very serious life-threatening accident to direct me to nursing), and will graduate (finally!) this August with my BSN. I'll turn 25 when I graduate, which is still incredibly young. When I was 20, I was in rehab for physical therapy and the like, for 6 months following the previously mentioned life-changer. It was after that whole experience I realized how young I really was/am, and how many opportunities (many I'm sure I don't even know of) there really are! I know of so many incredible people who have started pursuing a nursing degree after 3 or 4 or 5 decades of life... (to those of you reading, you are rock stars!! keep up the awesome work!) they remind me that I can do this and have so much ahead of me! The same goes for you chana0209. If I can do this (and do it well, might I add - with all the painstaking diligence and determination it requires) then you can do it. No question. Stay focused and try to be patient with yourself, then just do the next thing. [emoji6]

Thank you joanna73, I do realize it now with your help. I'm a young nursling learning, and sticking it out. I am also an ESFJ, if that tells you anything!

Point taken, foot-in-mouth and all. Thank you for the reply and honest insight. I'm being serious, I appreciate it.

.....where is the decency.. respect.. kindness? (I'm referring to nearly every post on this thread). - beneficence - nonmaleficence - veracity - fidelity - justice - respect for autonomy - As a prospective new nurse, I absolutely want to exhibit professionalism through all aspects of my role as a HCP. Not through looks alone, but certainly included to make an effort to look clean, thoughtful, and presentable without drawing attention. Also, doing so through aiming as best I can to treat my patients and colleagues with respect, honesty, and kindness regardless of my opinions, pride, and emotions on any given day/shift. I will say, it is a bit discouraging to see the harsh dialogue between, who I understand to be, professionals here? However, I think that leading by example is the better route, and just hope that all of you will do just that with your patients' safety and wellbeing in mind first... and that does include taking the profession seriously and making an effort to look professional and presentable. Then, do what you do best and make those decisions to get that patient to the next step of progress! Do it with a buzz cut, with your beautiful hair nearly pulled out of your face or patient's face, with zero make up, or with pleasant, understated makeup on (though I will say, black and white is black and white: don't fix makeup for the nightclub or bathe in perfume). Most importantly, though, do so because you are a nurse and have the incredible privilege and responsibility to impact your patients' lives. I see that there are a whole lot of them, and there are a whole lot of meds to pass and doctors to call and boxes to click and notes to write, but the patient is a person with a family (or not - even more so), and with a soul and mind and ideas and a heart. If nothing else from my post means anything, remember that truth about each patient being an incredibly unique, genuine and imperfect person (just like each and every one of us here). Be conscientious of others, especially colleagues... am I naive to say this must apply to social media too!? That will help the image of professionalism within nursing immensely!