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Nursing Situation

Nursing Situation Dear students, for this assignment, you will write of an experience and how this class is assisting you to understand such experience from a research perspective. Here are two examples. 1.As a new graduate nurse on a neurology unit, one day my clinical educator was teaching me how to use a new syringe – in the med room. I was already intimidated with her watching me. After a few attempts at taking the cap off the needle, the needle and cover was in one hand and the barrel in the next. Maybe on the 5thattempt, the cap came off, but my reflex caused me to stab my finger with the clean needle. The educator told me bluntly, "Cynthia, you will never make it in nursing."   That comment blew the little confidence I had in my newly acquired skills. I struggled for the rest of the orientation. Then about 4 years later at another hospital, I was the manager for an Intensive Care Unit, we were very short-staffed, so I was called to Labor and Delivery Room to