WHY I WANT TO BE A FAMILY NURSE PRACTITIONER BY KATHERINE WASHINGTON SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NURSING AT NORTHWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY NURG 5000 – ORIENTATION TO GRADUATE SCHOOL DR. DEBRA SHELTON July 15‚ 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS Factors Influencing Role Decision…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….3 Personal and Professional Experiences……………………………………………………………………………………….3 Knowledge of the Role………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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who is considered family‚ childhood in a nontraditional family‚ and the ways in which we conceive a child. These diverges from the norm are discussed in the articles New Families: Modern Couples as New Pioneers by Philip Cowan and Carolyn Pape Cowan‚ Beyond Sentimentality: American Childhood as a Social and Cultural Construct by Steven Mintz‚ Making Babies by Anna Mulrine‚ and Baby Knows Best by Jill Smolowe. The world is entering uncharted territory‚ where the way in which a family operates and is
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A Death in the Family I have cried bitterly only twice in my life: once when my old girlfriend left me and once when my cat died. Mop was very special to me. Her death taught me not to delay getting proper care for loved ones. Mop came into my life as a kitten. Her mother died when she was very small‚ so I raised her all by myself. I took her to work every day and gave her milk every hour for two or three weeks until she was big enough to stay home. When Mop was two or three years old‚ I took
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Being a part of a military family is just as hard and stressful as you may have heard. My dad made the decision to join the Navy when I was six years old. After he joined he had to go to boot-camp for six to eight weeks‚ which left me in the care of my aunt since my mother wasn’t in the U.S at the time. It was hard to see my dad go because not only did have to deal with the fact that I was in a new country but I also had to cope with my dad leaving. After my dad finished boot-camp he had to stay
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perspectives on the family—family is deteriorating‚ family is changing‚ not deteriorating‚ or family is stronger than ever. Discuss which of these perspectives you feel is the most accurate concerning families in the United States today‚ using information from the text and the reader to provide support for your argument. In order to compare and contrast the three perspectives on family we first must define family. In America today there is much diversity. Ask five different people what family is‚ you might
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Ideal Vacation My family had always looked forward to leaving the valley during the torrid summer months. You see I never really had an actual vacation‚ since my father had been gone for eight long‚ dreadful years. He was sent away to a prison thousands of miles away‚ in Florida‚ when I was only six years old. My loving mother talked about ancient vacations we took‚ but I was too young to remember. My father was back home and he was as healthy as a young doctor. It was now summer of 2010‚ and I
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Questionnaire summary In this questionnaire I have looked at marriage‚ cohabitation‚ teenage pregnancy‚ who lives in your household and who is your family. I also looked at to see who usually the breadwinner in a family is and see what their definition of family means. From the results of my questionnaire I found out that most a majority of people think marriage is a necessity. This is probably because of their age and the generation they have been brought up in. However it seems the younger generation
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The previous preliminary reports focused on different artist purposes for The Family Group by Charles Umlauf. The first paper was a subjective analysis done through visualization and personal inquiry that believed the sculpture was a call for the divine. However‚ the second report was a research based analysis the determined the purpose was to depict the “basic unit of the economy” by showing a stereotypical family. This preliminary report will discuss the difference in the artist purposes while
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Families are an integral part of every society in the world. Every race and ethnicity wants to believe they are the best at raising children‚ and forming a functioning family; however‚ they all have different forms of parenting. Three countries whose values are comparatively different are China‚ Turkey‚ and the United States. The biggest difference in the way the values are expressed through these families and their differing parenting styles. Traditional values often produce strict parents; but
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To pursue my career as a family nurse practitioner is not only challenging intellectually‚ but on a personal level it is also rewarding to me. It is inspiring in itself to know that‚ I will be playing an important role in peoples’ lives by helping them achieve optimum health. The nurse practitioner advance degree will increase my knowledge and understanding of the science of nursing. It will provide an opportunity to help me learn in-depth physiological aspects of the patients. Moreover‚ a nurse
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