E-Portfolio

This E-Portfolio explores the career goals, hobbies, mission statement, vision, philosophy of nursing, and reflections of a Registered Nurse. It provides insights into the nursing profession and the personal journey of the nurse. Find study material on Desklib.

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My Career Goal
My goal in life is to be an Advanced Registered Nurse (ARN). Nursing is all that I want
to pursue in my life. Since my childhood, I have had a strong passion for the nursing profession.
I got attracted to nursing when I was young especially after my visitation to the hospital and the
day-to-day interactions with my uncle who has been serving as a nurse ever since.
My Hobbies
Personally, I have got certain hobbies that I prefer in life. I am just like any other human
being who has got hobbies that makes my life enjoyable and complete. As a responsible
professional I must count myself lucky for identifying my hobbies. What I will do, hence, is to
nurture these hobbies to ensure that they become as fruitful to me as possible. My hobbies are:
 Singing and Listening to Music
 Basketball
 Making Friendship
 Reading
 Watching Movies
My Mission Statement
My mission statement is: “To be an ideal passionate and dedicated nurse who deliver the
best individualized services to the satisfaction of the diverse needs of the patients.” According to
this statement, it is quite clear that I want to create a niche as an ideal nurse. To me, an ideal
nurse is the one who values the patients and give them the best possible care tailored towards the

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satisfaction of their unique individual needs (Kim, 2015). To achieve this, one has to be
dedicated, committed, and passionate at all times.
My Vision
My vision statement is: “To be the best nurse who provide the best, consistent, and
accommodative therapeutic nursing care to the satisfaction of all the patients.” According to this
statement, it is clear that I am looking forward to be the best nurse in the country. To achieve
this, I aspire to dedicate my tie to the service of all my patients irrespective of their diversities
(Smolowitz, Speakman, Wojnar, Whelan, Ulrich, Hayes & Wood, 2015). I will always do my
best to offer a therapeutic nursing care that seeks to address the needs of all my patients
regardless of their social, cultural, economic, and political diversities.
My Philosophy of Nursing
As a nurse, I have a philosophy that defines my personal understanding, perspective,
purpose, and he sense of nursing as a profession. My philosophy of nursing is therefore that,
“Nursing is an important profession that equips practitioners with the fundamental skills to serve
patients and improve their health status by offering individualized, flexible, accommodative, and
supportive care.”

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Reflection
Currently, I am a Registered Nurse (RN). My journey began over ten years ago when I
was still a young child. I got passionate about the nursing profession as a result of my exposure
to the nurses at a tender age. I got attracted to nursing when I was young especially after my
visitation to the hospital and the day-to-day interactions with my uncle who has been serving as a
nurse ever since. So, to achieve this, I have to have good plans that will enable me to rise through
the ranks progressively as time goes by. From this preview, I boldly express that my overall
desire or long-term goal is to be an ideal Advanced Registered Nurse (ARN) within the next 10
years. This is, indeed, a smart goal because it is realistically achievable. However, before
becoming an ARN, I have to work hard to achieve my short-term goal of becoming a Registered
Nurse. This, I plan to accomplish within the next 5 years.
Once I had identified this as my life goal, I took the initiative to accomplish it. First, I
went through an elementary school, worked so hard, ad excelled in my examinations (McEwen
& Wills, 2017). Upon a successful completion of elementary education, I proceeded to the high
school where I again worked so hard until I again passed my final examinations. From here, I got
enrolled in the university to study nursing (Purpora & Blegen, 2015). Here, I am in the hands of
professional ad experienced experts who have dedicated their time to offer us the best nursing
education. I began my journey by attending the Punjab School Education Board where I
completed my high school education 2009. From there, I proceeded to the prestigious Baba Farid
University of Health Science where I graduated with a Bachelor of Nursing in 2013. Currently, I
am pursing a graduate diploma in nursing course at the IHM Paramatta. In these institutions, I
have acquired adequate education that has prepared me to be a good nurse (Masters, 2018).
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lots of skills. Some of the workshops have been offering training on infection control, wound
care, intravenous care, basic life support, and advanced life support training.
The nursing education that we have been receiving is a good one. It has equipped us with
the theoretical and practical nursing skills (Mikkonen, Kyngäs & Kääriäinen, 2015). Among the
theoretical skills we have been learning include the history of nursing, theories of nursing, the
scope of nursing, qualities of an ideal nurse, ethical codes of nursing, emerging issues in nursing,
use of technology in nursing, and the challenges facing e nursing profession today (Numminen,
Ruoppa, Leino‐Kilpi, Isoaho, Hupli & Meretoja, 2016). We have also been learning about
practical skills such as communication, therapeutic care, and cross-cultural care. These lessons
have been useful because they equip us with the fundamental soft skills and competences that we
require as nurses (Tanaka, Hasegawa, Nagayama & Oe, 2018). They are essential because they
give us the knowledge that we require to serve the patients and satisfy their needs no matter how
unique they might be.
During my stint as a RN, I have done everything within my capacity to fulfill my
philosophy of nursing. Whenever I get an opportunity to attend to the patient, I have been trying
to deliver high-quality services that can satisfy the needs of my patients. Among the roles that I
have discharged include helping in the bone marrow aspiration procedure, maintenance of the
files, administration of chemotherapy, preparation of patients for surgery, preparation for
medication administration, development of nursing strategies, and the education of the patients,
families, and carers (Ali & Ali, 2017). Serving in these roles has imparted useful skills that have
made me to be the kind of nurse whom I am today. I have served as RN at Agrihotni Hospital
and another facility in which I have been serving as a RN in the medical surgical department and
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However, despite getting an opportunity to serve different kinds of patients, I have had to
encounter experiences regarding various healthcare issues. Some of these issues include
medication error, commutation gap, and the interpretation of ECG findings. The challenges faced
in these areas demonstrate that I still have to make certain improvements in order to perform
much better. I have to deal with the problem of medication error. On many occasions, I have
observed many healthcare practitioners who have been making medication errors when they get
an opportunity to attend to the patients. There are many patients who have been getting
misdiagnosis and mistreatment because of the incompetence of the healthcare providers who
attend to them (Matua, 2015). Personally, I have found myself in the same situation. There are
two patients who I gave a wrong diagnosis. I attributed this error to the problem that I had
encountered in the documentation procedures of the hospital.
I have also had a first-hand experience of the seriousness of the problem of
communication gaps in health care. From my own observations, I have concluded that
communication is a key component of health care that should always be taken seriously in the
course of service-delivery. Communication breakdown is a real problem that faces many
healthcare providers. It happens because of many challenges such lack of core interpersonal
communication skills such as critical listening, respect, understanding, appreciation, and
tolerance especially between the people from different cultural backgrounds. Such challenges
have made it hard for the people to effectively communicate especially when attending to the
patients (Murray‐Parahi, DiGiacomo, Jackson & Davidson, 2016). The other area of concern I
would like to highlight in this reflection is the interpretation of ECG findings. ECG records are
essential because they provide useful information on the electrical activities of the heart.
However, one challenge I must point out here is that there are many challenges involved in h

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sage of these records. If one does not have the requisite competencies and experiences, one is
likely to misinterpret the records. This is a challenge that I have personally encountered.

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