Prompted Blog post #1

The medical field is one of the most important areas of work to be in. Not only do doctors save lives on a daily basis they are always researching to find new cures and anti-bodies. A common misconception about the medical field is that the doctors are the most important people. A medical staff consists of both doctors and nurses, and those nurses are not to be undermined. The nurses do a lot of work such as prepping patients, running diagnostics, doing physical exams and making the patient feel comfortable and safe while they are in the hospitals care. A hospital is a professional setting and therefor the nurses and doctors are always business like and respectful to each other and patients. Part of a nurses job is to make the patients feel welcome because most people do no want to be in a hospital at all. This means that along with being professional nurses must also be cheerful and friendly, and always have a smile on their faces.

In addition to always being kind and caring a nurse must also be smart and know many things about the human body. The body is an extremely complex unit and being able to understand it and put that knowledge into practice on a patient is no easy feat. In my quest to learn more about the field of nursing I picked up an anatomy textbook and began looking through it. Inside I saw many pictures and diagrams of different parts of the body and on each picture their were tons of labels showing all the different pieces that make up a specific region of the body. It was a little overwhelming to look through the book and see just how many parts it takes to build a hand or a foot, even something that seems relatively simple like your finger, still has bone, skin, blood vessels, fat, and all these different parts. This just shows how much knowledge a nurse has to retain in order to help people and save lives. A textbook on anatomy is an extremely helpful resource to use to learn more about the medical field and to understand the human body, but in my opinion hands on learning is far better. When you are actually working in a hands on environment it is way easier to retain information than just looking at a textbook. By flipping through the textbook I just started to realize why the medical field has so much schooling involved with it because their truly is a lot of information that needs to be known before you can start putting your knowledge to work on actual people. Until I know the human anatomy better I would not trust myself in an operating room or anything like that. All and all the only way to really learn all the different parts of the body would be by using a textbook though because you can not see the inside of the body, so the textbook is a wonderful resource still.