Future of Nursing Reflective Journal

Today was a good class. Obviously answering the question what did you expect is jsut crazy because given the way things go in class I never know what to expect. I did get some good information regarding the requriements and benefits of being an educator and doing travel nursing. I also enjoyed the conversation about what the future of nursing is going to be. We are constantly taught in nursing school to use critical thinking but for some reason nurses only tend to critically think when dealing with patients, their families, and other health care workers. We are terrible at using critical thinking skills to change our future. Instead of adapting to changes and looking for ways to make our future better we tend to complain about what is owed to us and why we deserve more. Now is the time to determine what we want our future to be like and start moving in that direction. You have to create a plan and then work to implement it. It will almost never be easy but in the end if you reach your goals it will be owrth it.