Introduction
Nursing is involved with roles such as assisting the sick and injured from pain to recovery, providing primary healthcare, promoting quality health care through preventive and curative healthcare, and giving health care guidance and counselling to patients and public.
Motivations for Pursuing a Graduate Degree in Nursing
Generally nursing is interesting, as it involves with direct help for the sick and injured, securing their lives. Lives are precious, thus need to be saved. Nurses play major role in enhancing quality health through quality healthcare. It involves direct care and contact with patients. Through the contact, nurses helps patients out pain and can improve the quality of care to patients unlike other fields whose care to patients is indirect. Diseases, and infections threats human health. This has increased the number of patients who require healthcare, and subsequent demand for more nurses care for the large number. There are many qualified nurses, and more are being trained at diploma level to meet the demand. The demand has created a pool of nurses with a diploma as an at most level of education. Nurses with a diploma in nursing are limited to performing low level scope practices, leaving the higher level practices to few nurses with at least a degree in nursing. To advance a diploma in nursing requires extra time, a fact that explains the reason why nurses with nursing degree are few. The few nurses with a degree in nursing get more benefits, salaries and compensation compared to nurses with a diploma in nursing. Their scope of working is wide, ensuring thorough participation in enhancing quality health. This gives a motivation to advance education, knowledge and skills in order to add to the number of nurses performing high level practices, with improved and efficient care to patients in need of special and complex care. This will create opportunity for more benefits, salary and compensation (Wiggins 344).
I plan to advance my education in order to advance in nursing practice particularly to be a clinical nurse leader. This will require me to have a master’s degree in order to widen the range of practices from primary healthcare to outcome-based practice, to be able to base my practice on evidence, evaluate outcome of the patients, make changes on care plans, and to assess cohort risks. Using the advanced skills, and knowledge I will be able to serve a large population of patients in hospital, healthcare facilities and the entire society, and participate in promoting quality health (Bowcutt and Goolsby 160).
Essential Qualities in Nursing
Nursing is directly involved with precious human lives. This requires nurses to have a wide range of traits for effectiveness in the practice. It requires moral responsibility, reliability, kindness, physical endurance, willingness to help people without bias, thoroughness in the practice, accuracy, consideration, and self discipline among others. Love is essential for effective practice, as it enables nurses to be fair and generous to all people requiring their care.
In the next five years, I will have attained a master’s degree in nursing, and I will be practising as a clinical nurse leader. The duration between now and then, I will actively participate in promoting quality health through rehabilitative, curative and preventive measures, such that five years from now, most of the threatening diseases and disorders will have been eradicated, leaving our nation free from health threats. In that time, I will be a clinical nurse leader who is actively involved in innovative measures against cohort risks, reoccurence of diseases and delivering quality care to all people in need.
Work Cited
Bowcutt, Paul and Goolsby, Matthew.”Clinical nurse leader: promoting patient-centred outcomes”. Nursing Administration 30.2 (2006):158-161.
Wiggins, Martins. ”Partnership care delivery model”. Nursing Administration 36.7 (2006): 341-345.