Why do you want to get into nursing?

I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A NURSE TO SHARE ALL THE LOVE INSIDE THAT GOD BLESS ME TO SHARE WITH THE HUMAN RACE BECAUSE SO MANY OTHERS HAVE  DECIDED TO BE A NURSE DUE TO MONTERY VALUE  MAYBE THAT'S THE WAY OF THE WORLD THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH OF LOVE TO SPREAD BECAUSE SOCIETY  HAS GONE TO THE ANIMALS WHO RULE IT.

All four is my best answer but I have always been interested in health.

 It was really strange, I had this epiphany half way into my junior year of high school - Nursing! That's the answer!

I'm happy with my decision, though my road will be long just trying to get my degree. I'm so thankful for this site, it and the people are helping me so much. C:

I think I have posted this before..somewhere else on this site, but the reason I want to become a nurse is because of my Grandmother.

She had CHF and was always so very ill, one night we received a call very late, stating they were taking Meme to Waco (the town they lived in was small and was in equiped to take care of her condition, so they Care-Flighted her to a larger city).  To make a long story short, they intubated her and she was basically breathing by machine.  The next day, as my father, grandfather, and I enter the room, she is just laying there, eyes shut, the sound of the machine pumping.  I took her hand, the Doctors explained they were going to take her off the machine, to see if her lungs were able to breath on their own.  They told us to leave, it would be about an hour and to come back.  We all kissed her goodbye, and I whispered in her ear, I wasn't ready for her to go anywhere yet, and I told her I loved her.  It had been an hour, as we rounded the corner to her ICU room, she was sitting up in bed, smiling....that was the best day!!!  Later, she had told my mom, she had heard me whisper in her ear, and that is why she didn't give up!!!  That is why I want to be nurse.

I enjoy working and helping others especially the elderly, also I am following in the footsteps of both my great-grandmother and my grandmother whom they were nurses for many years.

shebaker1 says ...

When I was a senior in highschool I found a little pamplet for a local college.  I could become a LPN without having to take any math classes.  In 1975 the LPN programs were much different than they are today.  Wow college and no math.  So for 34 years I worked as a LPN.  Then in 2005 I decided that I wanted to become a RN.  Well with the RN I program I had to take some dratted math classes.  I hate math and I am sure I always will. 

However becoming an RN has been a dream come true. I now work where I have wanted to work for 20 years, in one of the major hospitaIs in Washington State. I make more money and I have good benifits both pluses with the money matters so shaky these days and I love doing what I do, working in a hospital.  When I come home after my shift  I'm dog tired but I know that I have made a difference to someone.  Thats what life is all about helping others.

Just another little something funny.  When I was a child my father spent a few days in the hospital.  I remember him asking me empty his urinal.  I refused to touch it...........  I wonder how many of those I have emptied since  : )

1. I had been a first aider and EMT since I was 16 (lied about my age)

2. I was an Army Medic

3.  I had always loved helping the public in everything I do

4. So even though I was an attorney, I wanted to work in health care - to me, RN's were the professionals in the field.

I was 14 years old and my mother had ovarian cancer with metastasis to the bowel requiring a colostomy. The home health nurse would come out and visit her and showed me how to care for her colostomy so when my father was working she could have help. When she was dying the nurses at the hospital treated her like she wasn't even a person. She died in agony as back in those days they didn't give above the maximum dose of Morphine stated in the drug guides no matter how bad the pain was. I swore to myself then that I would become a nurse and I would make sure no patient under my care ever endured what my mother did. I have kept that promise to this day.

Some days i really love nursing then theres those days i HATE it ill be real honest here i worked as an aide for a year watching these "smart ass" LPN's where i worked treat us aids like we were worthless and i thought they are no smarter than me so thats when i went to school to be an LPN ...26 years later and experience in everything from the elderly, MHMR, psych, school nursing, MD office nursing... i cant pinpoint an exact thing that makes me say WHY i became a nurse BUT i always believe you have to have it in you to be a nurse like an inborn trait because we all know people that could and would never do our job... but we nurses know we are the people that will always go the distance to help someone else ... i do nursing because i really do care about other people :)

Because I love helping people.

Being a nurse is something I always dream of,and I also love helping people.

For everyone:

Would you do it all over again?

My reason for becoming a nurse was to help others through difficult times.  I had a near death post surgical experience myself some years ago.  My daughter, 23 at the time, was having a very difficult time dealing with it.  If it had not been for a stranger, a nurse standing outside who comforted my daughter, I probably wouldn't have had the strength to become a nurse at 48.  That stranger standing outside turned out to be one of MY nurses who was coming in on her first shift back.  What a blessing it is to be in the Nursing profession.  As nurses we Never know, who or how we help.  May God send blessings to all those in the great field of nursing.  :)

daisymae0 says ...

For everyone:

Would you do it all over again?

 

 

In a hearbeat.. HOWEVER.. i wold have become a CRNA much much much sooner.