We are almost done!!! After putting this off for 9 years I am so excited to be done with my BSN! This week in leadership I was once again educated on something I never thought I would do. The Bargaining assignment was very interesting and I have a new found appreciation for those who work within unions. While working on the group exam due next week it was interesting reading different posts about nursing unions in Utah. People have very strong feelings about unions for and against, and the views were interesting to read. My experience and exposure to unions is very negative. When my family lived in California my dad ran an exporting terminal in Long Beach. The long shoremen union wanted my dad's employees to join the union and started approaching them. My dad wanted his employees to make this decision with all the information and tried to help them understand the benefits of both being with the union as well as not. Because he got involved and tried to help his employees the union people starting making threats to him and our family. One morning I woke up for school and went outside to find all the windows in my dads SUV had been smashed in. This may or may not have been associated with the union threats, but it sure felt like it. I know unions aren't bad, and this assignment helped me see unions from a new light. It would be interesting to see how our work environment would change if a nursing union came to Utah.
The best part of the week was to finally complete my Professional Portfolio. This project is unlike anything I have done in my past. I have done resumes, and 5-year plans, but I have never compiled all the information together into a portfolio. Now that it is done my feelings about what I have done with my career to this point is interesting. Putting everything down on paper has been a good eye-opener for me.
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