1. Who did you interview/shadow?
Kaydra Pridgen
2. List the person’s full name, job title, and place of employment:
Kaydra Pridgen, Nurse, Parkland Hospital
3. List the person’s email and telephone number:
kaydrapridgen@gmail.com 214-517-1190
4. Why did you choose this person to interview? Why did you think this person’s experience made him or her a good choice for you? (100 word minimum)
I chose this person to interview because she works the type of job that I can see myself working. She works at a nicely established hospital and only works certain days a week. In me talking to Nurse Kaydra, it helped to remember why I adore human services to such an extent. It solidified the way that I would want to work the way that she does to help patients. Nurse Kaydra’s work influences the assets, work process, and activities of a framework that l influences me to want to pursue my career in the medical issue. I saw — and better valued — the affection and care that nurses give. Nurse Kaydra informed me that by doing this job, it has broadened her horizon and opened her up to be more social.
Information from the Interviewee
1. According to the interviewee, what are employers in this field looking for most when hiring a college graduate? (50 word minimum)
In this career field, most hospitals are looking for a nurse with specialized experiences. Mostly, it is harder for a nurse straight of grad school to get a job at a in a well known hospital. Second to that, employers was a nurse that is passionate about the career field, willing to learn new things and is always excited and eager to pursue the job. She takes note of that ongoing nursing graduates searching for RN occupations may have minimal clinical experience, yet they can express enthusiasm through their volunteer endeavors—maybe working at an immunization facility or taking blood weights at a wellbeing reasonable or instructing about wellbeing themes in a neighborhood school.
2. What is the interviewee’s career like today? Include a general description, educational expectations, necessary qualifications, etc. (250 words minimum)
A Registered Nurse works in the therapeutic field and should be prepared for any possible outcome that comes their direction. When speaking to Nurse Kaydra, she stated that anything could happen in an blink of an eye. There could be a sudden passing, a patient that tries to self harm themself, and even a patient just falls over and harmed themselves. As a Registered Nurse you have to have the capacity to manage blood, snot, upchuck and so forth. The primary concern a Registered Nurse must be capable, and wanting to help individuals in need. A Registered Nurse commonly will in general work in a perfect and solid workplace. As a matter of first importance, nursing is troublesome. It's physically requesting – being on your feet throughout the day, bunches of truly difficult work and turning, and some of the time you get so bustling you don't have room schedule-wise to eat or go to the restroom. It's rationally requesting – you're continually evaluating, mediating, and re-surveying, utilizing basic reasoning aptitudes, and continually getting the hang of, picking up, adapting new things. Any choice you make can have immense outcomes. It is candidly requesting – you need to think about some evil individuals and, at times, concede you can't spare everybody and watch individuals kick the bucket and offer help to their friends and family. Another part of nursing is managing individuals' impression of what nursing truly is. Many individuals still have this thought medical attendants go about as "specialist partners" or something.
3. What does the interviewee believe that career/field be like in the future (in 5-10 years)? (100 words minimum)
The shift from hospital-based to community-based healthcare demands will have a major impact in the future of nursing. Majority of nurses are used to hospital-based practice. Shifting to community-based nursing practice will need adjustments in enhancing skills on independent nursing actions, decision-making and in-depth head-to-toe assessment. She also stated that she believes that healthcare will be more mobile. It’ll be more geared to wear the patient is most comfortable, such as in home, at work or even while traveling. Clinics and wellbeing frameworks the nation over are executing a "triple point" of enhanced quality, at lower costs, with better patient encounters. Medical caretakers are required to apply complex information to their consideration of patients and be set up with new capabilities in regions like administration, proof based practice and joint effort.
Summarize and Reflect on What You Learned
1. Thinking back to your Focus 2 results and what you learned in the interview, how do your interests, abilities, and values match with the current requirements of this career? How will they match in the future? (250 words minimum)
Being in the healthcare field requires a strong mind and caring spirit. I love taking care of others. Last year, my step father of 11 years, passed away from a very unexpected yet aggressive cancer. As I went from hospital to hospital, watching various nurses take care of him with a gentle touch, I realized that that was what I wanted to do for other people. I wanted to be a person who could help and nurture others in need. According to my Focus 2 results, I am always willing to try new things. I needed to accomplish something in my profession that is testing, fascinating, and has any kind of effect in individuals' lives regularly. In the nursing calling, you manage an assortment of patient, and I appreciate the assortment in the daily practice. I picked nursing as a profession since I adore adapting new things. I am open to continually testing myself to keep learning new medicinal patterns with the goal in mind that I can give the best care to my patients. I gain some new useful knowledge from my associates and patients, which moves me to investigate further information of the strategies and methods I utilize. I am very adventurous, therefore this field gives me the opportunity to explore different things. With nursing, you get to explore every aspect of humans, whether it be, pediatrics, RNs, ER nursing, or being a nurse practitioner.
2. How did your interview impact your perspectives on your chosen career choice? You might want to consider any strengths you might have or challenges you might face in pursuing this field. You might also consider whether you are more likely or less likely to pursue this career based on what you learned in the interview. (250 words minimum)
Although, I am interested in nursing, I did realize that work hours can be very time consuming depending on the career field. I know in my heart that it is my reason for living to wind up a medical attendant, to lead this world into what's to come. Being a medical attendant will be a test, yet I am prepared for that challenge. I have been prepared for quite a while to go up against my job as a world changer, an audience, a healer, and a companion to those with necessities, a nurse.However, there is no certification what degree that distinction will be. The chance to genuinely have any kind of effect in somebody's life is one of the numerous prizes of nursing. A run of the mill day of a medical caretaker is loaded up with extend periods of time of physical, mental, and passionate work. The job of a medical caretaker differs from giving wellbeing training to solid people to thinking about wiped out or harmed people to thinking about customers toward the finish of their lives. A medical attendant should continually be at the highest point of their diversion mentally, prepared to address the difficulties of customer care and settle on life and demise choices in a brief moment. This isn't a simple employment and can abandon one depleted and depleted by the day's end. Despite the fact that nursing is requesting, physically difficult, and requires a ton of diligent work, attendants are compensated by having any kind of effect in the lives of their customers, creating confiding involved with other individuals through interfacing and minding, and being a piece of an expert inheritance that has stood the trial of time. The calling is amidst an emergency because of the lack of qualified medical attendants.
Review the Career Planning Ladder & Create a Plan
1. Look at the Career Planning Ladder above. What stage of the career planning process are you in now? Describe that stage and explain how you fit into the description. Has your stage changed based on what you have learned in the two Career Exploration assignments you have completed? (100 words minimum)
I currently am in the research phase of the ladder. Initially I was in the decision making phases, however, after talking to Nurse Kaydra, I realized that being an RN might not be the exact field of nursing that I would like to go into. Instead, I might prefer going into pediatrics instead. This has caused me to go into more depth research about being a neonatal nurse and to work in the NICU with babies. I would like to have an internship next summer at a hospital back in my hometown and get the feel of how each nursing position is.
2. Identify at least one campus, community, or internet resource that you can use as you navigate this stage of career planning. Consider the resources you have learned about so far (Focus 2, PACE Career Counselors, Career Services, individuals you have networked with, campus organizations, etc.). How could that resource help you with your career planning? (100 words minimum)
I could use the hospitals in my hometown during the summer to take advantage of different clinics and shadowing opportunities within the area. I have made aware that UT Southwestern offers summer programs that allow programs for nursing and medical field majors to get a feel of what it is like to be hands on in the field. Also, taking advantage of websites such as, https://www.travelnursing.com/news/career-development/three-ways-to-be-a-better-nurse/, will help to give tips about how to apply your attitude and personality to the nursing field. These resources will help me become more comfortable with being in a patient’s personal space and knowing every detail about how to treat patients.