In life, you find yourself working with others. As a child, you were taught to play well with other children on the playground. In secondary school, you learned to work with your teachers to get work completed. As a working adult, we work with our peers daily in order to get the daily task accomplished. In the nursing profession, there is no difference. There are various disciplines that we must collaborate with occupational, speech, and physical therapies, doctors, radiology, and dietitians, just to name a few. We do this for the greater good of the population we serve. The medical profession is like a body. Without one part of the body, it is not a perfectly complete functioning system. No one department is meant to function alone. I love the field of nursing because I am able to overlap my knowledge with that of the people of various department and receive what it is they have to offer as well as learn from them. It is through collaboration we as nurse leaders enact changes at the bedside, the front lines, and professional growth. I was challenged with the task of identifying a problem with bedside reporting at my facility and addressing the problem. I was able to meet with my director and directors of other departments to get our initiative off the ground. We are not called just to be task-oriented robots. Nurses need to actually advocate for our patients. I am happy to say that with the help of some of my suggestions my department is close to meeting our 100% goal of documenting bedside reporting. This past month we were at 90% with daily bedside reporting documentation.
     I feel as an emerging leader in the field of nursing, I am called not to sit on my gifts but to utilized them. I play an intricate part in someone's life, someone I may never have gotten to meet had I not been a nurse. I get to share my gift of nursing with people at their most vulnerable times. I get to serve as both a healer and a comforter. I love the feeling I get when I have helped to stabilize a patient or brought comfort to a family member. As a new Bachelor prepared nurse, I am committed to serving the people I come into contact with daily. I will not only participate in the healing process, but also serve as an advocate for them. I feel daily, my mission is to be the best nurse that I can be Therefore, I will continue to commits myself to serving the people I come into contact with through nursing. I am elated to be able to recognize a problem and be a part of the solution .