Why Healthcare? While taking care of my Big Mama (grandmother), I knew I was meant to be in the medical field. When serving in the US Air Force as a Trauma Medic with top-tier Doctors & Nurses everything became clear to me. It was the permitted compassion that accompanies the Nurse that allowed me to distinguish and ascertain the choice of becoming a Doctor or accepting my call as a Nurse. With my 3-personal core values, 1) Integrity always! 2) With unprecedented quality, & 3) Work as unto God; it wasn't long I found myself growing in my nursing career as an impressionable student at West Coast University. Whereas the military gave me my footing in healthcare, West Coast University was the wind behind my ambition. It was here that I connected with my true calling to serve others, this is why I became a Nurse.
Satisfaction In My Current Role? Affecting change in my community & serving in a higher capacity. The best part of my job is clinically improving healthcare to my neighbors, serving those faces I see every day, & helping to structure the care-outcome of people I regularly interact with. Being able to develop strategy & implement EBP into a care delivery system that around 37,000 residents in my community depend on is extremely rewarding. Striving to the best Nurse I can be and remaining a desirable contributor to healthcare is one thing but re-positioning myself in my career by attending WCU & obtaining higher education, gaining skill, & science-based knowledge not only takes me ahead of the curve, but it directly makes me solution.
Why This Healthcare Specialty? I have always been a leader, becoming a Nurse-Leader was only a matter of time. With a dedication to science, my strength is finding gaps in quality, identifying/knitting together the skills of others, and building an effective team of compassionate people.
I am a Homecare Executive, who has recently taken on a project and accepted a position as a Clinic Nurse during an acquisition. I accepted this position as part of a way to further integrate my knowledge gained in graduate school. We need Nurses on every level, as decision-makers, Stakeholders, working on the floor, at the bedside, & even in the community. Nurses know a lot about care, but not a whole lot about the business of care. As a business man who is also a Nurse, I decided to apply my acumen to an establishment during this transition to balance advocacy and client-centered care during the transition. Developing tools for resistance to change, misguided passion, & increased anxiety, I feel equipped to take on this challenge.
Like a marriage, merging cultures & addressing bad habits that have turned into legacy issues, are all anticipated challenges of an acquisition. As a Nurse-Leader, I have opportunity to implement techniques like planned change & strategic planning as I raise awareness in advocacy for myself/ staff/ clients, all while being a defender of superior-quality care. This blend of executive leadership and direct clinical operations is pivotal in my manifold-understanding of what it takes to provide great care.
Three Words of Advice To My Colleagues! 1. Don't be a coward! You have what it takes, health literacy in America is about 12%. So, use your nursing-knowledge fearlessly. You know more than you think & you have exactly what it takes to lead.
2. Understand/appreciate the fundamentals of a hospital, but don't limit yourself to the bedside. There is more places to serve. Vacation, take breaks, laugh, travel, and work in numerous places. This expands your exposure, which expands your capacity, giving you a deeper understanding/skill/know-how, which creates a bigger demand for your perspective of nursing.
3. Don't be afraid to be your own Boss! Entrepreneurial nursing is exciting, rewarding, and in demand. Take science-based nursing everywhere! You can lead or start your own. Being a Nurse, you are a problem-solver. There are plenty of innovative ideas or companies that need your nursing knowledge.
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