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Nursing Portfolio of Lillian del Carmen Amador

   "It is not how much you do, but how much love you
    put in the doing." -- Mother Teresa

    "Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of
    my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never
    permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness,
    unkindness, or impatience." - Mother Teresa

"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It
     is to decide forever to have your heart go walking
     around outside your body." Elizabeth Stone

Lillian

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Nurturing

Nurses, without a commitment to nurturing other individuals, would not be able to call themselves members of the helping professions. Nurturing is often confused with loving. While it is honorable to love others, the true meaning of nurturing is to provide nourishment and to support the development and well-being of others as well as to provide education. This is, to me, is the main idea behind what nursing is.

Skills

I as a nurse in training have an obligation now and in the future of developing and honing my skills so that I may provide the best care possible to my clients. Creativity and flexibility are necessary in order to make the best use of any skills one develops.

Conscientious

While having finely sharpened skills is a key requisite to being a good nurse, being conscientious about the care you provide and observing the protocols and established practices of the profession is critical to your client's, your colleagues, the organization you work for and the profession.

Professional

To be professional is includes being conscientious but goes even further in that it includes the manner in which you conduct yourself with others both on and off the job. A nurse should always be conscious of his/her professional status as a representative of the nursing profession. How a nurse relates to others and conducts his/herself should reflect well upon the individual and the profession.

Traditional Values and Value Tradition

I have lived my life with a core set of values that may be considered traditional. I strive at all times to live within those values. As a nurse I find these to be entirely consistent with the established values of the nursing profession which have come from many years of experience of many people. I value their experiences and the traditions that have emerged from them. Such traditions, which can be seen in works such as the ANA Code of Ethics, provide stability, credibility and accountability for the nursing profession.

Future Oriented

Just as I value the traditions and traditional values mentioned above, I also firmly believe that the as the world matures, technologies advance and attitudes adapt, nursing must adjust and develop along with them. I am excited by the opportunity to participate in the evolution of the nursing profession over the course of my career.

My Definition of Nursing

Nursing is in essence the nurturing of others. The true meaning of nurturing is to provide nourishment and to support the development and well-being of others as well as to provide education. This does not only occur in the context of disease but extends to the broader human experience and honors the culture, mind, body and spirit of all people.

Pacific Lutheran University

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