Nurses play a crucial and essential role in delivering patient’s quality of care, being the most direct caregivers for many of them. Nurses like Florence Nightingale, Isabel Hampton, and Lilian Wald were heroes who provided a tremendous knowledge that nowadays we are still using, and made a profound difference in the quality of care of patients, being their legacies followed today (Black, 2017, p. 324). Nursing has evolved in various aspects meaning that many changes have occurred in ways that are responsive to changes in the environment we are surrounded for. One of the changes we can observe in which this nursing field has evolved is gender equality knowing that in previous decades, and when Florence Nightingale started her nursing profession was a female dominated career where only women were the ones who provided care for patient, but today many males’ candidates are practicing the profession and are involved in patient’s care.   The way they used to dress was totally different and not the same we use to wear today, they worn long white dresses, white hats, and white stockings, and nowadays nurses wear comfortable and beautiful scrubs, no hats, no dresses, and appropriate shoes and socks as well. As time has passed nurses have grown into highly specialized, and respected members of health care teams being a key element of the healthcare industry. Nursing education 100 years ago was a more direct training on how to address doctors, while nursing education today is more complex, formal, and comprehensive than it was before. Actually, today we as nurses need to take a complex and national exam as a requirement for becoming a licensed RN. While we get more knowledge and foundation of a stronger education we take into consideration the patient’s responsibility in our shoulders, and especially when we become advanced practice nurses.   The impact of technology has allowed nurses become more precise, and efficient, alleviating some of the physical demands. The way nurses do their job today is easier than before keeping in mind that patient’s records are digital helping us with less paperwork, and preventing human mistakes on charts, that way is easier for us while doing an assessment on a patient. Another advantage we have with technology use is using the mobile apps to look up any medical information, as well as the special beds and chairs providing us a more comfortable environment as we don’t have to do so much heavy lifting (Dawn, 2016).  Today, Nursing is what I expected when I entered this education. Although I never imagined being a nurse, I’m more than happy and proud of myself for having chosen this beautiful career. This teaches me every day to be a better person and value the love and care I provide to people who really need my help. I always thought about the tremendous responsibility I would have while dealing with real people who are really sick, but I’m always eager to learn new things and expand my knowledge to be more success.

1. Nurses play a crucial and essential role in delivering patient’s
quality of care, being the most direct caregivers for many of
them. Nurses like Florence Nightingale, Isabel Hampton, and
Lilian Wald were heroes who provided a tremendous knowledge
that nowadays we are still using, and made a profound
difference in the quality of care of patients, being their legacies
followed today (Black, 2017, p. 324). Nursing has evolved in
various aspects meaning that many changes have occurred in
ways that are responsive to changes in the environment we are
surrounded for. One of the changes we can observe in which
this nursing field has evolved is gender equality knowing that in
previous decades, and when Florence Nightingale started her
nursing profession was a female dominated career where only
women were the ones who provided care for patient, but today
many males’ candidates are practicing the profession and are
involved in patient’s care.
The way they used to dress was totally different and not the
same we use to wear today, they worn long white dresses, white
hats, and white stockings, and nowadays nurses wear
comfortable and beautiful scrubs, no hats, no dresses, and
appropriate shoes and socks as well. As time has passed nurses
have grown into highly specialized, and respected members of
health care teams being a key element of the healthcare
industry. Nursing education 100 years ago was a more direct
training on how to address doctors, while nursing education
today is more complex, formal, and comprehensive than it was
before. Actually, today we as nurses need to take a complex and
national exam as a requirement for becoming a licensed RN.
While we get more knowledge and foundation of a stronger
education we take into consideration the patient’s responsibility
in our shoulders, and especially when we become advanced
practice nurses.
The impact of technology has allowed nurses become more

2. precise, and efficient, alleviating some of the physical demands.
The way nurses do their job today is easier than before keeping
in mind that patient’s records are digital helping us with less
paperwork, and preventing human mistakes on charts, that way
is easier for us while doing an assessment on a patient. Another
advantage we have with technology use is using the mobile apps
to look up any medical information, as well as the special beds
and chairs providing us a more comfortable environment as we
don’t have to do so much heavy lifting (Dawn, 2016).
Today, Nursing is what I expected when I entered this
education. Although I never imagined being a nurse, I’m more
than happy and proud of myself for having chosen this beautiful
career. This teaches me every day to be a better person and
value the love and care I provide to people who really need my
help. I always thought about the tremendous responsibility I
would have while dealing with real people who are really sick,
but I’m always eager to learn new things and expand my
knowledge to be more successful in my life and be the great
nurse I always dreamt of when I decided to get into this field.
References:
Black, B. P. (2017).
Professional nursing: concepts & challenges
. 8th ed. St. Louis, Mo.:
Saunders/Elsevier
.
Dawn, P. (2016, August 3). Nursing is in transformation, and
that’s good for nurses. Retrieved
from http://blog.nurse.org/2016/08/03/

3. REPLY 2
Nursing is one of the fields that require much attention,
dedication, and passion concerning how nurses treat patients
under their care. Nursing program entails taking care of
patients, this involves giving them guidelines on various issues
such as medication, feeding and dietary habits as well as
offering assistance to patients with various medical challenges
to ensure their good stay while at the health care facility.
Nurses plays a pivotal role of assisting doctors identify the best
care plan for patients. They are also involved in executing the
care plan offered by doctors and can sometimes advice doctors
more about the health condition of patients since they spent
most of the time with the patients (Ronquillo, Currie & Rodney,
2016). While most people enter the nursing profession with the
wrong mental perspective that nursing is a simple duty, some of
them drop out during the training program as the task requires
much dedication and perseverance as one interacts with diverse
people with different health complications. While the different
people may have various personalities, the nurse is expected to
display high level of professionalism and care to patients, which
calls for ethical values as a nurse (Clavijo, de Julián Romero &
Paniagua, 2016). Although I expected nursing to be quite
challenging while I was taking my nursing program, I never
thought it would be that hard. The modern evolution trends have
drastically changed the nursing roles unlike in the past.
During my studies as a nurse, I thought the nursing profession
would be hard since I could see various nurses doing their
duties with ease. When I visited the some of the healthcare
facilities within my locality, I would see nurses doing their
work perfectly and enjoying interacting with different patients
and examining their medical conditions. For me, I was
passionate about the profession since I like assisting people who

4. are suffering from various conditions. Therefore, nursing was a
good choice for me since I was able to identify the various
people with different medical conditions and assist them to
recover. However, I never thought that the task would be that
difficult. I thought the task was easy while I was taking the
nursing program in college until I entered the actual profession.
I realized that the task was not as easy as I thought since most
of the times, I found myself interacting with different patients
with various medical conditions and who have different medical
illnesses.
Working at the ICU was challenging for me since I found
myself working with patients who were facing different critical
issues. When I entered the nursing profession, I thought that
nursing involved taking care of patients and giving them
directions on how they would take their drugs as well as
assisting doctors in treatment of patients. I never imagined that
nurses play a more involving and critical role than the doctors
assigned to treat the patients. I found myself working for more
hours in a day than I expected. At times, I would work both day
and night taking care of different patients since the nurses in my
healthcare facility was limited. I realized that nursing has
greatly changed and the profession has become more involving
since nurses perform some of the task that doctors do not do.
Arguably, the nursing role has changed drastically since I have
been using most of my time in the hospital taking care of
patients, giving them directions on dietary habits and offering
emotional support to different patients. This is one of the
aspects that have drastically changed since I left my nursing
program from college.
References
Clavijo, M. C., de Julián Romero, F. J., & Paniagua, M. V.

5. (2016). Evolution of education in nursing. Medwave, 16(6),
e6505-e6505.
Ronquillo, C., Currie, L. M., & Rodney, P. (2016). The
evolution of data-information-knowledge-wisdom in nursing
informatics. Advances in nursing science, 39(1), E1-E18.
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