Nursing Critical Biography: Professional Timeline

CRITICAL PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY
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Professional Biography
Osborne (2005) defines the term autobiography as an engaged record of one's life told from the personal perspective. Forde (2009) also supports the importance of autobiography in teaching, enlivening and showing life accounts that someone has gone from education to the onset of a career. Thus, the autobiography explores the accounts of life’s activities, challenges, activities and give a projection of the future endeavors. As contended by Webb (1992), my biography will feature those factors that influenced my decision to choose to nurse as a career, my studying experience, my foundational achievements, the general experience after my graduation and ultimately, how it has affected my life.
The biography is written in first-person as supported by Webb (1992) that a memoir or an autobiography signify a narration from a character thus it must be written in first-person narration. Webb (1992) further contends that since the narrator is the author, first-person writing should be used in addressing external and internal experiences of the narrator. Also a few significant issues regarding the effect of the Arabic Islamic culture on some Saudi nursing practices. There are certain tools that aid in structuring an autobiography as suggested by Forde (2009) main tools that will aid in structuring the autobiography and personal portfolios. The techniques for that I will use include Johari window, the VARK questionnaire and a SWOT and SMART tools. I will be applying the concept of SWOT tool and SMART goals drawing clarification form Rubin (2002) to set my future goals. According to Luft (2012), Johari window is a technique that denotes the pioneers of the concept and stand for Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham. The technique was initially used for the heuristic purpose in 1955 for the corporate purpose of promoting interaction and communication (Luft 2012). The purpose of the Johari window in composing an autobiography is to promote understanding oneself and others. VARK is a scholarly and a psychological tool that helps in identifying the techniques and preferences used by one person in learning. The concept denotes visual, auditory, reading and writing and kinesthetic preferences of learning suggested by Fleming (VARK 2011). The tool will aid composing my autobiography through identification of the learning preferences I used such as experiments, reading and writing, hands-on experience, auditory and visual techniques.
Why I chose to nurse
At my early age, I had been sufficiently fortunate to have had the delight of meeting some nursing experts who encouraged me to take after them. Among them are my father and friends, the majority of whom were medical personnel. After their expiration, I planned to one day measure up to their expertise, industriousness, and energy. From my identity perspective, nursing suit me. I can portray my identity as a kind and understanding personality. I can recall, when I was 13 years of age, my grandfather was booked in Wadi al-Dawassir hospital. I had the chance to watch while the medical attendants dealt with him. I was awed by astuteness, generosity and minding that the medical ...