Student Nurse Reflective Journal

1. What I learned I was really enlightened this week. I really loved the things I learned from my teammates in our historical discussion. The first thing I learned was how much nurses were paid in comparison to surgeons in the time period we covered this week. Nurses were paid 8 dollars a month and surgeons were paid 40 dollars a month. I looked up the average salaries of these professions today and I found that the ratios are about the same! This was surprising to me, because nursing has changed a lot since then. Of course, nurses shouldn’t be paid as much as a surgeon, but I would assume the pay gap would decrease at least a little bit. I am surprised, because in this time period, nurses didn’t require formal training and did very simple tasks. They often assigned prisoners to be nurses. Today, nurses require a lot of training and education. You would think that the pay would increase since the profession has changed so much since then. The next thing I learned from one of my teammat

1 . What I learned I learned a lot of interesting things this week. First, from the article I found about caring for those who are dying. I learned that people before the 17th century were more worried about the salvations of their soul than their body. Care was mostly focused on symptom relief, and holistic approaches were accepted and common. I also learned a lot from the article those in my team posted. After reading the articles, I came to see that, while there are differences between modern nursing and nursing pre- 17th century, there are still many similarities. One of the similarities that my team member made was that nurses still care for all, regardless of religion, sex, race, etc. I also learned something interesting from a team member about the demographics of nurses pre- 17th century. That is, there were many male nurses back then! Even now, nursing seems to have more females than males, so I thought, especially in the past, there would be more girls. However, it turns out

Hi, I am a student nurse at Utah Valley University. I am currently working on completing my BSN. The purpose of this reflective journal is to record what I am learning in my Nursing Leadership and Nursing Across the Ages classes. Anyone is welcome to read, but it is mostly for my own benefit by keeping a record I can look back on, so I don’t lose the knowledge I will gain from my classes.