To Improve My Family Condition Essay

When I got back from Germany after completing my Master’s Degree in the summer of 2012, my original plan was to go to law school. However, my mother, who was a concert organist, quickly suffered from her deteriorated health due to prolonged breathing problem coupled with the side effects from her major foot surgery. While my father, who has a permanent job as a college professor in South Korea, was visiting to help my mother during his school break, sudden news of my grandmother’s severe stroke forced him to return to Korea immediately, because it was his important family duty as the eldest son to take care of his ill mother. Alone with my mother who is in her early sixties, I willingly accepted the role of the family caretaker as the only…

Moral Compass in Nursing Values play a significant role in shaping professional identity by influencing the actions and behaviors of practitioners in their day to day activities. Three fundamental personal values shape my understanding of nursing. To begin with, being a nurse requires a person to be very responsible. Being responsible means that nurses should not only be willing to do what is expected of them but also beyond these expectations as long as it will improve patient conditions. It is…

I met my little cousin when he was only a couple months old. I rattled the blue toy in front of my aunt’s son and watched as he sluggishly stared at my hand. His symptoms were difficult to miss: weak muscles, flat head, low nasal bridge, short neck, slanted eyes, and abnormally low outer ears. As a high school student who loved her biology class, I was very intrigued to learn more about this devastating genetic condition. In the course of time, the investment I made in understanding my baby…

My Three Passions When I was very young, I used to ask myself why I was born to this world and the reasons for me to live. It took me so many years to find a correct answer for the question. I hope I got it correctly or I am still finding a more correct one. The answer may lay on three of my passions as improving myself to help me and my family, helping other people and traveling to widen my world. Those passions lead my life to more developed stages as I am growing up. The first thing about…

Stumbling over nothing, my father falls flat onto the ground. Unsurprised, a hint of annoyance pricks at my mind. I stand with an exasperated sigh and help him up. Just another day. I hate my compulsive anger, but I am not angry with him. I’m angry at this disease that is slowly destroying my father and taking him away from me. My father has Spinocerebellar Ataxia, a neurodegenerative disease that affects a person's speech and balance; a rare and incurable condition that runs throughout the…

Girls who worked in factories in the 1800’s believed that the working conditions were unacceptable. The historical fiction novel Lyddie by Katherine Patterson is based on what a typical factory girl in Lowell, Massachusetts goes through while working hard through poor and unsafe conditions to provide for their family. Lyddie feels the working conditions in her work environment are extremely poor. There is a petition that she would be able to sign to improve the working conditions she faces…

money on luxury items such as vacations, new cars, clothes, shoes, etc. But, how much of those things can really be considered “necessities?” The Kardashian family has made their fortune from their television series Keeping Up with the Kardashians and also with the people they choose to have relations with. However, almost all of this money is spent on houses, cars, and vacations around the world. These activities are, no doubt, very exciting and enjoying to partake in, however, they are by no…

They need to address risky behaviors in order to improve outcomes. It is important to strengthen both individual and community skills to tackle factors that affect health. Coming from one of the developing countries, where there…

One Saturday morning, I learned that my aunt went into labor, she was 6 months pregnant. That same day, she gave birth to a very fragile baby, but my aunt’s condition got worse and we spent the next hours visiting blood banks trying to get O- blood for her. I was 16 at that time and felt so frustrated I could not do more than making phone calls to blood banks; she died that same day. My aunt lived in a rural area in Mexico, and while she received prenatal care, she developed eclampsia while…

Book Choice I chose to read and analyze the book Better Now: Six Big Ideas to Improve Health Care for All Canadians to gain insight to the improvements that can be made upon Canada’s praised healthcare system. While it is a blessing to have free healthcare in Canada, free certainly does not always mean better. Any Canadian who has waited for hours in an emergency room can attest to this fact. With the recent events in the United States, there has been a lot of conversation regarding their…