What I Love About Nursing Is....

We support, nurture and care for the sick, the wounded, the dying. Age, caste, creed or sex no bar. People at often their worst points in their lives - we work at setting them all right again.

The awesome responsibility that is ours alone to bear of being the patient advocate.

Where each day brings forth a new challenge. A new puzzle. A new case - or maybe a familiar old one. Never a dull moment.

How we are reminded from time to time (sometimes painfully) that despite our best efforts - we are only human and that there is only so much we can do. And that this is not necessarily a bad thing.

That there is as much love and happiness in this world as there is grief and sadness.


All this and much more - are the reasons I am proud to be a nurse.

cheers,


PS: Besides, how many professions do we say "And let us not meet again anytime soon" as a parting farewell?

I LOVE my little 9 bed hospital....I have worked larger places where you have 7 pts a piece, cna's to do the baths, RT, PT, OT, code teams, IV teams, etc!! Here in the madison valley, WE NURSES ARE IT!!! We are the code team. We are housekeeping. We are the IV team. We are RT!! When you come to work for your 12 hour shift and you and your only other nurse (yes, we staff with 2 on the floor) have 6 patients, all with IV's, 3 with foleys, one chest tube, 4 are TOTAL CARE and one in the croup tent andthe you have a 2 vehicle MVC come in the ER doors, you really learn to work as a TEAM and pull it together!! I cannot imagine doing anything else!!!

I love nursing because I am able to use my music background to teach my patients about healthy living.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz4wW...e=channel_page
Check out a fun song my para patient and I wrote that promotes regular bowel movements. We laughed until we cried and learned as we did it. Enjoy!