The Art of Nursing
Monday, April 06, 2009
I always thought that I wanted to be a doctor because that is what my grandfather was. It wasnâ?Tt until my senior year in high school that I changed my goals in life. I was given three life changing experiences. The first was the opportunity to go to a medical conference in Chicago. The second was a day in a doctorâ?Ts office where I was continually brushed off to shadow the nurse rather than the doctor. The third was my senior project at St. Anneâ?Ts hospital in the OB unit. I went in every day for a week and realized that nursing is where I am supposed to be. I feel so gratified helping other people in a nursing role that I knew I could do it and get paid very little for it just because the real payment would be the look on a patientâ?Ts face when I can sit down and calm their fears or care enough to hear about their family and why they are in the hospital. I realized from these three experiences that I wanted to spend time with the patients and not be there simply to make a diagnosis. I want to know what the patient is like and be able to put my hand on their arm and see the relief on their face when I can tell them everything will be okay. I want to be able to make them feel better.
I currently work in a hospital as an aid. I love my job but I want to be able to do more for the patients. No matter how hard it is to get out of bed in the morning, once I look at the patients that I will be caring for that day I realize what a good day it is going to be and look forward to the stories that each of my patients can tell me or what new knowledge I can gain that day. I want to be a nurse because I want to spend my life being a servant to those in need and helping anybody that I can. Nursing is the only thing that I can picture myself being successful and happy doing. Whenever I try to think of anything else that will make me happy it always in some way comes back to nursing.
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