Nama : Asriati Sa’ada

Semester/Kelas : 6/B
NIM : 2014201075
Prodi : S1 Keperawatan
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The liberal art and nursing

I'm going to tell you a story about how despite trying everything to the the contraty I
became my mother and also why i think everyone here should consider becoming a nurse or
at least think about nursing in a new. I remember the Professor saying this is why we need the
liberal arts to challenge this innate tendency and he's right because the liberal arts say force us
to grapple with ideas that are living and breathing not just those that impact our bottom line.
Now I had never considered nursing healthcare was my mother's realm but the more I read
about this field and the lateral movement it afforded the more it piques my interest I could go
on and specialize in psychiatry become a nurse practitioner even keep a foot in academia.
And then I asked people and I got these stories like oh the nurse who got me through labor
and delivery. and then people would talk about this exceptional nurse that defined the
experience of their dad's heart surgery. it was a year of firsts with highs and lows I practiced
giving injections to oranges and sin gave flu shots to the entire hospital staff. and I watched
that the team had just fixed a heart valve and I watched saline swirl through its chambers and
Beyonce was playing overhead and I thought there's nothing cooler than this moment.

So I was working in a County clinic one day and a man came in he was about my age
and he was a heroin user he had track works up and down his arms that were turning to
abscesses and he was at risk for infection and he'd been avoiding the emergency department
out of fear of the police but he came in to this County clinic religiously every few days to get
1 his wounds cleaned I noticed as we were working with him, he picked up his cell phone and
he was on the phone with his dealer they were arranging a meeting spot and at this point I
was sort of just standing around while the other nurse was packing his wounds and this is
something you get used to a lot of awkward standing around in your first year but I noticed
and I notice that in this unfolding moment nurses were the only people who could help this
man they were the only people who could reach him because they were the only people he
trusted this was when I really started to get interested in nursing.
 I also worked with refugees um I worked with a wise and gentle Burmese man with a
history of schizophrenia and I went to his house weekly to assess his symptoms and I
remember he told me he'd been seeing small friendly stars and he's saying to himself at night
to keep his hallucinations at bay.

Every time a hospital fills the bed on a cardiac unit or a cancer floor they make money
and every time they take on a psychiatric patient they lose money now it came to no surprise
to me that health care like anything else is a business. because usually when you really look
at it it doesn't come from a place of fear of any legitimate threat it comes from a place of
wanting to have the upper hand to teach a lesson to make sure that this person is malleable to
the same codes of society that govern the rest of us.

So whenever I'm at a dinner party and I tell people I'm a nurse I get mixed responses
sometimes they just start telling me about their yeast infection which is actually less offensive
than the question will why nursing you are smart enough to go to medical school and this
makes me so mad because nurses for too long have been relegated to a stereotype of this
female.

I think we're perceived as cleaning up dung at the base of the medical hierarchy and
I'm not the only one who feels this way my mother lasted a few years as a nurse and turned
around to become a doctor because in her time this stereotype was impossible to get out from
underneath but nurses are not accessories they are fully realized agents of their own fate who
came to a choice about their career like anyone else.

We are looking at a new dawn for the world of Nursing by the year 2050 our
population is expected to increase to 9 billion and with the advent of the Affordable Care Act
there are immense and complex challenges on the horizon, I think about the day not too far
for any of us where we sit in our living room and we have appointments on a little device an
eye nurse as medicine continues to find newer and more sophisticated ways to tidy up people
and their experiences into data and figures and boxes like they have to right now what
happens to the humanity will there be more or less of it the perspective of the nurse is
essential because the nurse knows the complexity and the multiplicity of the human
experience from those who have been at the bedside for 40 50 years to those who are just
starting their profession.