My Journey In Becoming an RN

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive

devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; for

what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared

with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is

one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

Florence Nightingale, 1868

Jackie Golsch

The Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Turn your speakers up, Sit Back,

Relax, and Enjoy the Journey!!!

What’s wrong with this picture??

Can YOU name them???

There are 6 things wrong with this picture!!!

We often think of nursing as giving meds on time, checking an X-ray to see if the doctor needs to be

called, or taking an admission at 2:00 a.m. with a smile on our faces. Too often, we forget all the other

things that make our job what it truly is: caring and having a desire to make a difference ·

Erin Pettengill

Nursing

Health does not just mean the physical well-being of the individual but refers to the social, emotional, spiritual and cultural well-being of the whole community. This is a whole of life view and includes the cyclical

concept of life-death-life

-Australian Aboriginal people-

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others

Anthony Robbins

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

Horace Mann

ENVIRONMENT

PERSONVariability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.”

William Osler

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“This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are

growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.”

Martin Luther

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us

backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.” Anaïs Nin

THE LAST HORRAH

BEFORE GRADUATION

Student Nurse Diagnosis:Extreme memory lapse r/t total lack of recall aeb gaping mouth, vacant stare & mumbling of “I don’t have a clue”

Some Quotes I like!

- Health is a large word. It embraces not The body only, but the mind and spirit as well;… and not today’s pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of man

-James H. West

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

Joseph Butler

Nightingale PledgeI solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly, to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully. I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous, and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug. I will do all in my power to maintain and elevate the standard of my profession, and will hold in confidence all personal matters committed to my keeping and all family affairs coming to my knowledge in the practice of my calling. With loyalty will I endeavor to aid the physician in his work, and devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care.

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