2009 NURSING CONVOCATION SPEECH (DRAFT) JUDD HUNTER RN BSN

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2009 NURSING CONVOCATION SPEECH (DRAFT) JUDD HUNTER RN BSN

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2009 Nursing commencement speech

2009 Nursing convocation speech. (DRAFT)


Judd Hunter, RN, BSN


Thank you friends, family, and colleagues for the opportunity to be here today. It is a great honor and pleasure to graduate from BYU’s masters program as a family nurse practitioner, but also a great honor to work and learn with many of you. My classmates are a mix of some of the best people I know and it has been a pleasure learning from you. I wish to express my appreciation to the factuality that mentored and shared their skills and knowledge to help start us on this adventurous path. I wish to express my deep gratitude to my family for their love and support. I know that each of us has someone at home that motivated and gave encouragement to keep working and do the best that we could. I also know that our families at home often sacrificed more than we did so we could attend BYU. Thank you.

We did it! Do you remember just a few years ago sitting in those uncomfortable chairs listening to Mary and Denies go over the program and list of requirements? Trying to figure out what was expected and learning the names of the people we would spend so much of our time with. I don’t know about everyone else, but this time flew by. True fully I will miss seeing all of you, but I won’t really miss being a student, I will just miss our frequent interaction and the friendships we have developed.

Nursing is a fantastic profession. I would like to talk about the novice to expert evolution that takes place in nursing. I am positive this same process takes place in all lines of work, I am also sure that the consequences of being a novice in nursing is shared by very few other professions. I can say comfortably that my classmates are all expert nurses. We come from different professional backgrounds, and we all excel in our individual fields. We had to earn that right of passage from novice to this point and it was done with some degree of hard work and stress.

We now stand here today on the edge of another large step in our professional growth. We prepare to leave a stage in our careers that we are expert caregivers to a role that we are again novices. We will start out feeling small, asking a lot of questions and worrying about diagnosis that we make or if that was the right medication to order for the patient. Is the patient presenting with a viral syndrome or is the underlying pathology cancer? As a register nurse there was always someone close to run a question by, the charge nurse, a co-worker, or even the physician. As a FNP the circle of resources around us is considerably smaller. But just like when we stated in nursing you learn who your resources are, who you can review a patient’s H and P with, and who will mentor your growth. Hopefully we find ourselves in practices where you are welcomed and comfortable seeking advice and consultations.

In reality when we start our new practice as a new FNP we are going to have to hit the ground running and also face a really steep learning curve. Just remember we have rich background that will serve us well, the lessons we have learned in class and in clinicals, and using evidenced based practice knowing where to get the right answer, we will progress down the path of novice to expert. Do expect blood sweat and tears along the way (hopefully not your own blood).

I am so excited about the potential that awaits us. Doors will be opened in places we didn’t know there were doors. The country and the medical community are waiting for our contribution and we will enjoy the successes and the confidence of some day being an expert nurse practitioner.

I would like to change the focus of my address and speak to the undergraduates for a few minutes. In a few months you will be starting on one of the greatest careers you could choose. Don’t get me wrong, there are difficult aspects of nursing like Christmas, and being at work. But today I wish to share with you some experiences in nursing at if you go to work mentally, and spiritually prepared you can act as a representative of the Savior. Men, if you honor your Priesthood you will called on to administer to the sick, the scared, and sometimes the dieing. You will not know when those calls will come, so please live your life so you can act with the spirit when the need arises. I served a honorable mission to Bangkok Thailand. I felt the spirit as I served the Lord as a missionary. People, I have felt the spirit and witness the hand of God stronger and more often at work performing my nursing duties than any other time in my life. I have seen miracles. I have experienced the power of the Priesthood, I have literally seen people come back from the dead. I have comforted the wife of a man who would not live by sharing my testimony of the plan of salvation, and knowing that families can be together forever.

You can do great things for people as a nurse. You can be a witness of Christ and enrich and comfort and heal God’s children. Remember God’s hand is in everything and be ready and able to be an instrument in his hands. You are entering a scared trust that few professions share, the healers art. Amen.


Judd Hunter




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