Twenty years ago, I began my career as a staff nurse. It has been an exciting up and down curve. I completed my studies at the University of Malta. Professionally, personally, and spiritually, nursing is gratifying in my experience.
Nursing is a difficult and tough profession. Staffing shortages are the most pressing issue affecting nursing throughout the world currently. The nurse-to-patient ration has reached its lowest levels. Almost everywhere and everyday there is a shortage problem. Malta is not an exception. Registered nurses have chosen to quit the profession due to various reasons, while the number of new recruits has fallen.
Despite this, nursing is still a highly fulfilling and meaningful profession, since it allows me to assist individuals when they are most vulnerable and in need. Most of the time people consider being a patient as the worst experience imaginable; thus, it is a privilege for me to assist and care for such people. I intend for them to feel secure, at ease, and cared for. It is crucial to be able to interact on an intimate level with my patients. When I was going through a difficult time, nursing was what kept me going. When I was at my lowest, my ability to aid and support others kept me going. Nursing was my guiding light amid the darkness. My profession saved and rescued me.
It is not always simple sailing. However, even when I was having a really awful day at work, I never considered resigning. Positive mental attitude yields positive outcomes. I always gathered myself together and drew lessons from such events. Nursing is, after all, a continuous reflective, learning process!
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Currently he is a senior staff nurse working in Mater Dei hospital within the Home Antibiotic Therapy - a unit that goes and gives antibiotics in the community to patients who are on long-term intra venous treatment.
William has been an elected member of the Malta Union of Midwives and Nurses (MUMN) for the last 3 years, working mostly in the industrial relation committee. He has also been elected member within the Council of Nursing and Midwives for the second consecutive term and has had an active role in different sub-committees’ within the council such as the vetting of applications sub-committee. He has also worked intensely in updating several data of registered nurses.
- The Pros and Cons of Nursing - 04/10/2022
