MY ROLE AS A BACCALAUREATE PREPARED NURSE
Being a nurse is not easy. Nurses are supposed to be not only helpful and compassionate but also capable of making difficult decisions and administering the right medical attention to patients in the absence of the doctors. Apparently, education plays a very crucial role in ensuring this but there are certain innate qualities that make one nurse better than the other. Nurses should have skills like effective interpersonal skills, exceptional communication skills, quick problem solving abilities, high sense of humor among others. All these qualities lie in both formal and informal capabilities of being a nurse. Therefore, this and much more exposes one to have different roles as a baccalaureate prepared nurse.
Nursing as career has percolated and evolved to be what it is today. In the United States, a testament to the diligence of interested groups known as the act was successfully passed. This happened as early as 1902 where the mid wives remained the domain of the women. The act provided a path way to the organization and registration of interested midwives. However, by 1918 one in five state-registered mid wives in England had no training (Oakley 1983). Besides, there were midwives who had good experience than others. There was a long tradition of apprenticeship for midwives. The passing of midwives’ act (1902) helped nurses to gain recognition for their work and was regarded as an important precedent by those who sought registration for nurses (Abel-Smith 1960). Many years passed by where midwifery remained under the control of women. It was a traditional belief that anything associated with menstruation and child birth was a dangerous act and it was supposed to be handled by women (Oakley, 1983, p 32). When there were complications, that’s the only time when men were called in to midwifery. And were allowed to use surgical instruments to handle obstructed delivery. These men usually belonged to barber Surgeons Company which later became the loyal college of surgeons. Women continued to take care of their normal births and men midwives were called for problems. These men were to become the obstetricians of today (Oakley 1983).
Today, nurses form complex groups both within the profession and outside in the organizational structures. This form three main groups of nurses. The first category is the managers. They are group of people who want to control the nursing staff and budgets. Managers support the existing structures that maintain their positions in the hierarchy. The next group of nurses are the generalists. These are people whose main objective is to gain a living. With this group of people, they always reject change and there is nothing wrong in such a way that they will support the