My daughter inspires me. She is my biggest cheerleader and a great friend. I am also inspired by my nephew, he has downs and despite is disabilities he focuses on his abilities and suprises everyone with his compassion and understanding. he is always into learning things, and into mischief. he reminds me life is short so eat cake. enjoy yourself and others

My mom inspired me-she started nursing training but didn't complete it and always regretted it. As long as I can remember I always wanted to be a nurse because of that. I wanted to finish where she left off. My children inspire me because I want to be the kind of person they think I am. Alot of you on this site have inspired me. I've met alot of amazing people here.

I have so many people who inspired me...

But the one who stands out is my brother. He went through Marine Boot Camp traning last year and he made it to his graduation! Semper Fi! He pulled through the toughest military training this country has to offer. I was so proud of him that he did what he did...and it made me realize that if: He could go through the roughest traning around, why cant I get through the CNA Program? He-has been a great person that I have looked up to and weither he realizes it or not...I will always love him forever for what he did for me. And that was being himself.

>The other people who inspired me the most was my CNA instructors. They have been a greatest trio of instructors a student could ever possibly have. I have struggled greatly during my time in the program but they never gave up on me--even though I wanted to give up on myself! Without their continued encouragement and without their inspiring words...I would not be here to say this: 2 DAYS LEFT UNTIL MY CNA TEST! :-D November 7th 2007!! Woo Hoo! ^^

I have 2 people on this site who inspire me. One is cdnurse-who works harder than anyone on this site and always has great comments and wisdom to give. The other is envyangels-her attitude and spirit and humor always leaves me feeling better.

The primary goal of my career is to make my patient contact fulfilling, engaging and fun. I have been and continue to be inspired by many teachers and have learned from them the importance of caring and not only the medical aspect of medicine. I have been given an unique opportunity to enhance and expand life skills: good communication, patience, confidence, and enhance the joy of doing my job.

The first inspiration that comes to mind for me is my sister. She is 17 yrs old and has spina bifida. I knew ever sinse she was born I will not be truly happy until I am helping children. There are too many stories where children don't get the treatment they should! In the meantime I have volunteered as a camp counselor for a week every summer for kids with disabilities.

My inspiration is my aunt. I have always wanted to be a nurse from the time I was little and all he way through, knowing she was one I feel I just wanted to follow in her footsteps.
Around the after of 8 my great-grandmother became sick and hospice came to take care of her, I enjoyed helping the hospice with her and doing anythign I could for her myself. I had never given up the dream to be a nurse but after she passed away I kind of made a promise to myself I would do this for her. She was just like another Mother to me, and taught me so much in the 9 years I got to spend with her.
Now, my inspiration is anyone in healthcare I have talked to or met (like the people I talk to on her and work with), my teachers (especially ones at boces in my health occ. class), and all my Family & Friends... All of these people push me because they know my dream and know that I can accomplish it.

My inspirations: My grandmother, who died a very hard long death. She never gave up, set goals for herself, even though she knew she wouldn't be able to fulfil them. My father because 3 days after surviving a massage heart attack (that almost killed him), took his final and received his Masters degree. He now has Leukemia. My husband: For many reasons....because he is the person he is....because he is in the Navy....because he helped me finish my degree and was always there to push me when I felt like there was no end in sight. I love him because of his past and what he has learned from that. I have so many inspirations....it is so hard to just name a few....but I am blessed to have them....it keeps me going some days when I feel like there is a brick wall that I can't climb.

I work with developmentally delayed individuals who also have medical needs.  Time and time again, I find myself thinking how petty my own behavior and complaints are when I watch these folks tackle some of life's most challenging obstacles every day.  The amazing thing is that they just take it all in stride.

My daughters inspire me.  They are the two most beautiful people I know.  Everything I do, every decision I make revolves around them and their feelings and safety.  Also, My husband inspires me.  He has been the best thing to ever happen to me.  He is supportive and patient and rescued me from a very painful past. 

 I am inspired by my brother who is a Protestant minister in Southern France.  His faith and compassion is greater that any one else's that I personally know.  Then I have a sister who is a DON in long term care and she not only has IDDM since she was four but has a serious case of RA but continues to work as hard as any one I know.  She also invented the Personal Belongings Case (www.popishinc.com).  The historic figure that inspires me the most is the Apostle Paul.  The Pauline Epistles are the most incredible books I've ever read.

I would have to say that my mother is the one that has inspired me the most. Nursing is the only thing that she has ever done or ever wanted to do. She is strong, smart, and confident women and I can only hope that I will turn out the same way. She was a single mother of a teenager (that was bad enough), working, and putting herself through nursing school. Then she went back for her BSN when she was 52 and was on the dean's list every semester. We graduated from college a day apart. Her father passed away during her last semester of ADN school. Now I am the one in school again, working, and my step-father (who I adopted) is very ill. My kids are young so I hope that they don't remember all of the time that I spend studying instead of with them. She is 61 and shows no signs of stopping. I asked her a couple of months ago when she was going to retire; she said, "Retire? I just finished school." She did finally give up working in ICU and now is working for an Anesthesiologist in his office and during surgical procedures.

This is a great question,, and the answer changes over time.

To enter Nursing: The Nurses and Nursing Students at Childrens Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. I was a patient there after a farm accident destroyed most of my lower left leg and foot. The care and concern they showed to a then 14 year old boy made a big impression. Numerous hilarious, sad, and even frightening events took place over the next two years, but I will never forget all they did.

I left Nursing School to try to save a marriage in 1983, but was unsuccessful. I recieved a "Dear John" while on Active Duty for Training during the conflict in Grenada in 1984. She thought all men got into Nursing to look at naked women. I guess their are a few perverts that get past the teachers and pass the program, but they have to be the exception, not the rule. Just as the other "stereotype" of all men in Nursing are homosexuals is also wrong. Again I know of some, but definately not the rule.

Back to "restarting school" - A neighbor and his wife were both RNs, his wife working where I did at a state facility for MR/DD. He worked for IHS, and loved it. They both encouraged me to apply for a program where by the state was paying employees to go to Nursing school and then "work off" the "debt" for 4 years. We talked a lot over the next 2 years, and that meant a lot. By this time a lovely woman and I met a church and she had asked me for a date. And then over a period of 9 months we dated, then were married,. And then in April 1991 before starting Nursing School, we became parents of our first son. Our second was born ONE MONTH after graduation from the ADN program, in June 1993. So obviously my family has been a major inspiration for me in Nursing, both school and whenever things got tough.

After Nursing school it was an older RN who was a mom to me in many ways. She cared about how things were going, and how I was doing. She was not the best nurse I knew by any stretch of the imagination, except that she cared. The loving way she cared for her favorite patient was an inspiration. He had been in a persitant vegitative state for over 10 years, and we knew there was no expectation of improvement. But she always talked to him like a her own child, handling him carefully, and always doing what we should all do.

After I lost my leg, and had other serious complications from the osteomyelitis, I became unable to work in a traditional setting. A few years ago I tried to go back to work with the local Indian Tribe. I was tasked to start a home health agency for them under a special funding from the federal government. My inspiration then was both the same RN (now divorced) that encouraged me in school, my family, and the elders in the tribe. I still care very deeply for them. Unfortunately I had some coronary events, and was forced to stop working again, and had to turn the program over to someone else.

Since then I have been doing mostly peer counseling, ad hoc patient education, working with wheelchair companies for deliveries and repairs, and Summer Camp Nursing.

I love the Camp Nursing - and watching the kids and adults who have only occasional needs. But after just a little while you begin to realize you are important to most of the people at camp, and you are appreciated for what you do. This came at a point when I was feeling my lowest, and then gave me what I needed to bring me back to life.

A long story, yet so many yet un-named.

God bless all, Paul

My dad inspired me. He always knew I could do anything I wanted to do. I kind of feel into nursing by way of a counselor at school. I was 26 with two children, single and very unsure of what I wanted to do, other than I loved psychology. She suggested nursing and here I am 20 years later and glad she did.

Who inspired my interest in the medical field when I was young was believe it or not, was watching the doctotrs and nurses on M*A*S*H*! My dad liked to watch the show when it was popular in the 1970's. Although it was fiction,I realized that in real life that there where doctors and nurses in real life that where most probably very dedicated in the same way. I watched the show and found that I had a very deep interest in medicine,which in turn led me to start reading medical books of all different sort at an early age. The more reading I did,the more deep my interest became. To this day,I still do alot of free-lance reading on all different medical subjects and own a small library of medical books of my own,which I'm constantly adding to. It's safe to say that medicine has always been my 1st love and over the years now that I'm 42 years old my interest and thirst to learn more hasnot wavered. christy1966