{"id":35,"date":"2017-01-09T17:06:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T22:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/?p=35"},"modified":"2017-08-01T14:08:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T18:08:31","slug":"finding-a-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/2017\/01\/09\/finding-a-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding a Passion &#8211; by: Eileen Shea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-20\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2017\/01\/Eileen-Shea-1-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Eileen Shea\" width=\"374\" height=\"254\" \/>Throughout our studies we are often asked about our goals for the future. At the beginning of my master\u2019s program, my answer was fairly generic: get a job as a family nurse practitioner. As I continue to progress through the program, I find my goals and passions becoming more specific.<\/p>\n<p>During our coursework we are encouraged to explore the concepts where we feel weakest, especially when we have the option to choose a subject to study with an assignment. We already feel completely overwhelmed in balancing everything that goes along with school, so why would we want to add the extra work of researching a concept we are inexperienced with for a project, as opposed to completing it on something that we are already knowledgeable on? Don\u2019t get me wrong, because I don\u2019t promote cutting corners, and I truly believe in a hard work ethic, but we all have our moments of weakness.<\/p>\n<p>Stressed and confused, another assignment came about as they always do. I chose a topic, care of cancer patients, that I was familiar with, against better judgement, but it was an enlightening experience, because I realized that this wasn\u2019t just another topic for me, but a passion. When it goes to finding your passion, it isn\u2019t as simple as going out and looking for \u201cX\u201d marks the spot. Sometimes you stumble across the unexpected when you least expect it.<\/p>\n<p>As a RN, I cared for patients with cancer diagnoses in the outpatient setting. As a future FNP, I can see myself continuing to advocate and care for oncologic patients, and this assignment reminded me of that passion. More and more often it is brought to my attention that these patients don\u2019t realize that going through cancer therapy doesn\u2019t mean you have to suffer. Hopefully, I can relieve some of that suffering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout our studies we are often asked about our goals for the future. At the beginning of my master\u2019s program, my answer was fairly generic: get a job as a family nurse practitioner. As I continue to progress through the program, I find my goals and passions becoming more specific. During our coursework we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graduate-school-general","category-motivation","category-nursing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}