What am I doing, is this the right move for me in my life?

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Please respond and comment to the following two postings. In your responses to your peers’ posts, you must provide constructive and insightful comments that go beyond that of agree or disagree.
1. I went to college for nutrition before I decided I wanted to be a nurse. I was in a program where the end of the whole program was a test similar to the NCLEX for nursing, just for dietetics instead. I’m not the best test taker and I have a really big problem with testing anxiety. I know the information but I know I’m being timed or being looked at and all that information leaves my brain in that moment. I had a professor in nutrition school who told me I wouldn’t make it. She told me I don’t have good test grades and I wouldn’t pass the state exams. I was so upset and the worst part is that I believed her. There was another professor in the building that I did extra lab time with. She was so helpful to my skills and she advised me that if I put my mind to it, I would do well. She gave me so much hope and all she said was that I could do it. She didn’t know me much as a student but she believed in me and my hard work.
On of the leadership characteristics this professor had accomplished was “Establish trust and cooperation among individuals and groups.” She was always there for me when I needed to schedule extra lab time and she created acronyms fo me to remember the criteria. She was reliable and consistent. I would email her to ask if the lab was open at certain times and she always relied – yes, come on down. There was never an issue and she always made herself available when she didn’t need to do it. She did it because she believed in me and that went very far. Another leadership characteristic she had was “Acknowledge good work and success.” This professor provided verbal rewards when I completed assignments correctly and efficiently. She used powerful motivated to keep me going through out each semester. As Catalano states, “positive verbal reinforcement is often more effective than a prize of gift.” This professor knew when I needed the encouragement and showed me determination (Catalano, 2020).
There will always be nurses that have more experience than others and there will always be nurses at the bottom of the experience totem pole. Everyone has to start somewhere. This is something I’d like to remember throughout my nursing career. I’ve been there. Nursing school is hard. I want to remember these statements when I come in contact with a new nurse. Right now I am the new nurse and there are so many helpful nurses above me that show me a trusting relationship and I know I can go to them with any questions I have. They use both of the characteristic of leaderships I wrote about above. They established a relation ship with me when I first started and always told me they are there for me, because they know the feeling of being a new nurse. Whenever I have a patient that I need a second set of eyes on, they are there. Whenever I have questions about a doctors orders, they are there. These nurses are leaders in my eyes and they offer help to those below them, at all times. They acknowledge my work and motivate me to always be better. They are the reason I am in RN school, they told to keep moving and never give up.
References
Catalano, J. (2020). Nursing now! Today’s issues, tomorrow’s trends. (8th ed.). F.A. Davis.
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2. My lollipop moment would have to be on the first day of clinical when I was going
into the operating room for the first time. I was a new student in the scrub tech program and it
was the first medical based job I was going to have. I was scared to death and full of fear and
anxiety. I thought, “What am I doing, is this the right move for me in my life?” My
instructor had to practically push me and un-glue me from the wall I was attached too. She
asked me what I was afraid of and I told her I wasn’t sure I had made the right choice of
whether or not to be in the OR or medical field at all for that matter. Her response was, “You
already did all the hard work, now you just have to walk through the door. How will you ever
know if you don’t walk through that door?” The realization hit me like a ton of bricks. I had
always wanted to be in the medical field, in fact I had been working toward that my whole life
without even knowing it. All the real life experiences I’d had growing up and being in
emergent situations had prepared me. All the months of hard work studying surgeries and
instruments had lead me right up to that moment. So when I opened the door and walked
through, I knew there was no turning back and I felt I was on the right path.
The leadership characteristic I believe my instructor had was motivation and she lead
me toward my goals. She had the ability to influence my decision on whether or not I wanted
to go into the OR. She gave me that little encouraging push that I needed to get over my fear
and self doubt. As Catalano states, “Learning and improving skills in one area will increase
the abilities in the other”(2020). By learning the specialized skills as an OR Tech, I was able
to integrate some of that hands on experience and carry it with me through nursing school and
throughout my nursing career. It gives me the confidence and education that I can bring to the
table when emergent situations arise.
References
Catalano, J. (2020). Nursing Now: Today’s Issues, Tomorrow’s Trends. Philadelphia, Pa: F.A. Davis. 8th ed, p 260.

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