I enjoy and love my profession. My greatest challenge at work is the unending list of things I need to know to function competently and skillfully. The more I learn, the more I find out that there is more I haven't learned. When I encounter something new at work, such as a medical term or a disease or a syndrome of some sort, I try to remember to write it down and read about it later. I have never been much of a studious-type person, so I try to make learning easier for myself by outlining what I read.
Nursing is a demanding and challenging, profession.
We are not only required by our employers and our patients to have the most disciplined organization skills, the most therapeutic communication abilities, the efficiency and masterful grace of worker ants, but also the brains to house the knowledge base of medical science. Healthcare is changing so rapidly. Nurses can really drown in all the new things that are cast upon their way every day. There is much to know in our field and it is our responsibility to know. It is our responsibility to educate ourselves.