This document discusses the journey of becoming a registered nurse. It touches on some of the challenges faced such as long hours, caring for patients with compassion, and remembering the true purpose of nursing which is caring for living beings. References are provided at the end from sources on nursing quotes, definitions of health, and nursing education.

1. My Journey In
Becoming an RN
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m ad e
it is to b e a ti o n , as a n yth d e a d c a n o d y , th e
rt: a n d i frd a p re p a r i n g to d o w i th e li v i n g b o s t
g i s a n ai o n a s h a i s th e h av o d o w i th : I h a d a lm
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2. T u rn yo u r s p e ak e rs u p , S i t B ac k ,
R e lax , an d E n jo y th e Jo u rn e y! ! !

3. What’s wrong with this
picture??
Can YOU name
them???
There are 6 things wrong
with this picture!!!

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6. 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-

7. ENVIRONMENT
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
o 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.

8. P R ON
ES
" Variability 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

9. “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

10. Some Quotes I like!
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”
- 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
HOR RAH
THE LAST UAT IO N
RE G RAD
B EF O
ompassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for
food

11. Nightingale Pledge
I s o le m n ly p le d g e m ys e lf b e fo re G o d an d i n
th e p re s e n c e o f th i s as s e m b ly, to p as s m y
li fe i n p u ri ty an d to p rac ti c e m y p ro fe s s i o n
fai th fu lly. I w i ll ab s tai n fro m w h ate ve r i s
d e le te ri o u s an d m i s c h i e vo u s , an d w i ll n o t
tak e o r k n o w i n g ly ad m i n i s te r an y h arm fu l
d ru g . I w i ll d o all i n m y p o w e r to m ai n tai n
an d e le vate th e s tan d ard o f m y p ro fe s s i o n ,
an d w i ll h o ld i n c o n fi d e n c e all p e rs o n al
m atte rs c o m m i tte d to m y k e e p i n g an d all
fam i ly affai rs c o m i n g to m y k n o w le d g e i n

12. References
A
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Ca
fé Press. (2007). Student nurse memory decal. Retrieved from http://www.cafepress.com/+student_nurse_memory_sticker_oval,193171967
Cr
eating New Realities for Nursing. (2009). Pathways to excellence [Data File] Retrieved from http://www.upmc.com/careersatupmc/nursing/
about/.../PTE_May09.pdf
Go
od Reads. (2012). Quotes about growth. Retrieved from http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show_tag?id=growth
Mo
tivatingQuotes.com (n.d.). Quotes about growth. Retrieved from http://www.motivatingquotes.com/healthq.htm
Nu
rsing Schools (2010, June 14). 100 Entertaining & Inspiring Quotes for Nurses. Retrieved from http://www.nursingschools.net/blog/
2010/06/100-entertaining-inspiring-quotes-for-nurses/
[Ph
otograph of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital]. 2010. Retrieved from http://www.writingriffs.com/2010/09/20/heartbeats-of-healing-a- celebration-