Nursing Profession Reflection Report - [University/College Name]

This report presents a student's reflection on the nursing profession, exploring key aspects such as critical thinking, holistic patient care, and adherence to ethical guidelines. The report emphasizes the importance of diversity, cultural competency, and effective communication in providing quality healthcare. The student shares personal experiences and highlights the significance of equity in treating diverse patient populations. The assignment also references relevant literature, including the importance of cultural awareness in nursing practice and the role of the nurse as an educator. The report underscores the significance of the nursing profession's purpose, which is to ensure quality care for all, and it touches upon the nurse's code of ethics and standards to maintain competencies and continue education. The report is a reflective piece that highlights the student's commitment to the profession and its values.

Running Head: REFLECTION ON NURSING PROFESSION 1
Reflection of Nursing Profession
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In the future, I want to be as a registered nurse in that I will use my profession anywhere
in the world. This will allow me to work with many people every day, both patients and staff. I
also believe that the nursing profession will let me be flexible to have family in the future. The
purpose of the nursing profession is the utilization of critical thinking, judgment and apply skills.
Moreover, there is the adoption of the holistic care approach when attending to the client, use of
nursing theories in the practice, application of the model of the nursing care, adhering to the
legislation set for the professional guidelines and advocating to create quality health systems
around the world. In accomplishing all those, the nursing practice can be practiced well hence
meeting its purpose. The nature of the nursing practice is to ensure quality care for all, maintain
the code of ethics and standards, maintain the competencies required and continue with
education to learn more things pertaining profession (Bastable, 2017).
Diversity is essential in the nursing profession because it provides opportunities to offer
quality care to patients. In my nursing profession I will follow diversity meaning I will be
following gender, status, race, religion, ethnicity, the socio-economic situation: education status,
and so many aspects. As a nurse, communication with the patient is essential because it breaks
the gap between the two parties (Darnell and Hickson, 2015). This makes the nurse cover the
bridge between the culture of medicines and the individual's beliefs so that the patient can find
value in the health care system. This means cultural competency and cultural awareness is
essential in the nursing practice. An example of applying diversity in nursing practice can be
reflected where I was working as a practicing nurse in Australia. In health care, I applied equity
when treating the indigenous and the non-indigenous Australians. This made me challenge other
nurses because they caused gap between the two groups which was very wrong. This means that

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it is advisable for the health care providers to hire nurses from a variety of backgrounds so that
they can improve cultural competency in the health care systems.

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References
Bastable, S. B. (2017). Nurse as educator: Principles of teaching and learning for nursing
practice. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Darnell, L. K., & Hickson, S. V. (2015). Cultural competent patient-centered nursing
care. Nursing Clinics, 50(1), 99-108.