Throughout my last two years of high school I wrote five essays and I even had to write a paper about the research and work I completed during my senior project. While I was involved in the required work for my senior project, I was able to learn a extreme amount of new information. The topic of my project was “The causes and effects of Ovarian Cysts on a Woman’s Body”. To complete that project, I read many articles written for “other patient care providers, clinic and hospital administrators and staff, insurance companies, and patients or clients” (Bullock etal. 318). Throughout many of these readings I noticed a very high amount of nursing professionals giving their educated opinions and also their true diagnosis. I even had the opportunity to partake in a real-life part of my research and shadow a nurse who was able to provide me access to watch a doctor perform a hysterectomy. During this process I was able to hold the uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries. This has been by far my favorite research topic.
When I started my college journey I knew it would not be easy, but I also knew it was going to be the best years of my life, growing academically and even more as a person. I am a nursing girl. So of course, when I was given the chance to write a research paper about anything in my English 131 at Lenoir-Rhyne I chose how nursing affects your body and mind. Surprisingly it was really easy for me to get the information I needed to write an informative paper. Many people do not realize how much nurses have to do and deal with on a daily basis. The workload is heavy but the emotional load can be even heavier. As a CAN I have seen more already than most people see in a lifetime the struggle and heartache is real. When I completed my research for that paper and presented it to my class some of them were in tears. Many of them did not realize the weight a nurse carries around on a daily basis.
While reading The Norton Field Guide I have learned I love this way of writing in Nursing and health fields. This book has given me a new insight on how I like to research and write. Thankfully I enjoy it because I would be in a real tough spot when it comes to my career and the rest of my time in school. Writing has always been enjoyable for me and I hope that it keeps getting more interesting the more I am able to research.
Works Cited
Bullock, Richard, et al. Chapter 26: “Writing in Academic Fields of Study.” The
Norton Field Guide to Writing with Readings and Handbook. 5th ed.
Norton, 2019. pp.305-320. PDF.
Carlee 