How do you say " I love nursing" in your language?

thanks jnette "kranken" is sick right? .. cool to know what language it is...
mother/baby... if you like I could research into our nordic languages .. I don't speak them though so that might be concidered cheating

[quote]Originally posted by Diana in Sweden
[b]thanks jnette "kranken" is sick right? .. cool to know what language it is...

Yes.."krank" means sick "kranken" means "the sick" (plural)..."Pflege" means care... ergo "care of the sick" ! So the term "nurse" is "carer of the sick"... or "one who provides care to the sick".

Another term for "nurse" is "Krankenschwester"... translated "sister to the ill/sick"...don't care for that much.. reminds me of the dark ages. ... summons images of old women in those long, white uniforms, all strict and cranky...

Well in Espanol or lets make it easy for you......in Spanish you would say it like this........:

!!!!! Me facina la enfermeria!!!!
or
!!!!! Me encanta ser una enfermera!!!!!!

Translation: !!! I love being a nurse!!!!!!

YEAH!!!! Nurses rock!!!!! Wuuuuu-Huuuu!!!!

cool jnette
sjuksköterska breaks down into "sjuk"=sick "sköt"= to care for and the ending "ska" that denotes the feminine so ..... woman that cares for the sick ... sounds like our words have a similar structure

it is a bit tough on our male nurses if they change it to the masculine sjukskötare it indicates that they work in psych as skötare is a person that works pysch.. they just can't win.. nothing wrong with working pysch but if you work in another ward you don't really want your patients to think you have come from another ward and have other qualifications..

you can also call yourself Syster Diana.. or whatever your name is but that means sister Diana.. I have actually heard some male nurses call themselves "sister Andrew" or whatever.... wierd .. I don't use the sister denotion either because I feel I have to have a nuns habit to qualify for that

oh and I have been called sister many times by elderly patients and have actually been curtsied to by old ladies .. nurses had a high status here earlier.. things have changed

Yeh.. I remember having to curtsey to our Principal went he walked through the school halls... There was no kickin' back with your feet up on the desk in German schools, that's for sure !

we stood by our chairs until the teachers told us we could sit, there was perfect quiet in the class and hands were raised to ask a question .. you'd think I was 80 but I am only 34.. I have spent a day with my daughter in school and the discipline was almost the same .... and with a lovely caring feel to it .. good place to raise kids!

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH !!! We did, too !!! Stood by our chairs until we were greeted by the instructor, then curtseyed, then sat down. Stood again as he dismissed class... only difference was that there was no lovely, caring feeling to it... more just plain authoritarianism. But we sure didn't see the problems schools are experiencing today ! I think they've relaxed some from what I hear.. I know the clothes have ! I was sent home for wearing a sweatshirt once ! We didn't have uniforms or anything, but we weren't allowed to be too "casual"....

we didn't have uniforms either but the dress standard was high .. no bare tummies or too short skirts then ...

I heard my daughter's teacher tell a kid he was asking for detention and I asked my daughter if it has ever happened.. she looked at me like I was stupid and said yes .. he has had to sit and study while teacher corrected our books ... he hates it but he acts nicer after .... love it ..... I thought detention was a dinosaur but it's still alive and kicking in my small town

hey mother/baby sorry we hijacked the thread!!!