• What will be your role (not just your job title, but your primary goals/responsibilities) as you begin your career as a practicing nurse?
My primary role as nurse is to provide patients with quality, professional, and safe healthcare. Also, I am determined to become a nurse who could implement other ethic traditional healing practices into the western healthcare system to bridge the gaps between patients from different cultural backgrounds and western practitioners. I am confident that improving these cultural gaps will allow both communities to understand and accept the healthcare issues that we face today.
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What value do you add as a nurse?
How do you demonstrate it?
I believe that empowering nurses with the necessary knowledge and skills for their specific of interest of nursing practice. I have demonstrated that I am a competitive person who is willing to work hard to improve conditions for the people around
me.
• What are five goals you have for your career as a nurse?
1. Goal 1: Improve patient safety.
a. What will this look like? Create a safe environment for patients, follow procedure and guidance, ask questions as needed, and focus on patient safety.
2. Goal 2: Eliminate cultural gap.
a. What will this look like? Build cultural awareness and develop skills and intervention to address cultural differences. Improve provider’s skill to communicate with patients with language barrier.
3. Goal 3: Building a trusting relationship between providers and patients.
a. What will this look like? Take time to let patients know that you care for them. Make patients feel comfortable and be honest when working with them.
4. Goal 4: Provide quality healthcare.
a. What will this look like? Providing clear, accurate, and honest information to patients. Be respectful and responsive to patient’s need.
5. Goal 5: Make a real difference and a positive change in people’s live.
a. What will this look like? Create a positive attitude in healthcare environment and the people around you. Make a positive impact for a realistic change that meet the needs for patients and staffs. Advocate educational meeting to make a real difference in practice.
• What are you most concerned about with regard to working as a nurse in interdisciplinary practice environments?
Something that concern me regard to working as a nurse in interdisciplinary practice environments is challenged with a trio of cultural, linguistic, and health literacy barrier. Nurses are the key people to facilitate the interconnections between patient’s culture, language, and health literacy for diverse patients to improve health outcome. I believe that educating all providers and nurses to better understand culture, religion, and environmental differences would bridge the gap between different levels of people.