Anyone care to share what made you fall in love with Nursing career?

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If anyone care to share what made you choose Nursing as a career... What are the things in Nursing you like most?

Thread was started out of curiosity and networking purposes only.

Thank you all.

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Specializes in Neuroscience.

I choose nursing because I thought it would be a good fit. I found that I love nursing because I enjoy helping people.

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Specializes in ICU.

Several things. One, I have always been fascinated with medicine since I was a little girl. I would read books and soak up as much knowledge as I could. This was when I was little. Then I got into high school and really did not want to go straight to college. I wanted to experience life a little first. Then, I started back to school around the age of 22. I got married at 23 and my ex did not want me going to school. He didn't want to pay for it. So, I quit. I had my son and became a SAHM. My son started school and I was tired of being a servant in my own home. I had pretty much been begging to go back to school for years but the answer was always no. So, in 2013, after 15 years of marriage, I filed for divorce and signed back up for school in the same week!!! Talk about stressful.

Fast forward 2 years later and I just finished my first year of the program and I love it. I love working with the patients and learning new procedures. Things change from day to day, heck minute to minute. I know this is the right field for me. When I was married I tried to "settle" for a career that I could just make some money at and I hated it. So now I am getting do something I love and show my son that you can do anything you put your mind to. My goal is to walk across that stage next year and get my degree and I cannot wait. This has been a dream of mine for way too long.

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

I've never fallen in love with nursing. I entered the nursing profession for the steady income, flexible scheduling, career mobility, and opportunities for educational advancement. So far I've gotten all of these aspects and more.

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

When working on the floor became a Burger King drive through where patients can "Have it their Way". No matter how unreasonable the request👎That's not assisting people back to health that's turning nurses into guest services.

Oops completely misread the title of this thread😂

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Getting paid to help people recover and be their lifesaver in their most vulnerable moments.

Watching a NICU nurse sing her dying patient softly to sleep in a rocking chair, and when the grandparent of a heroin OD broke down in tears on Christmas Day in my arms in grief.

Sometimes, nurses touch heaven, with how they change lives

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When you have a patient and they look into your eyes and say that they are so grateful for the help that you have given them. Also, when I got the privilege to hold a patients hand as she died. It's the little things that gives this job so much meaning. I love nursing, and I didn't know it until I became one.

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I didn't grow up dreaming of becoming a nurse... 10 years ago, if you had asked me who Florence Nightingale was, I probably would've guessed she was a Disney character. I decided to become a nurse out of dire necessity and an emotional breakdown when I realized that there were no open doors in my previous career choice… They told me that if I became a nurse that I would have job security, that I would make a decent living, and that I would take care of sick people. That was enough for me to enroll in nursing school...

Even during nursing school it didn't hit me.... You know when it hit me?? Falling in love with nursing hit me the first time I ever sat with a patient and let him hold my hands and cry on my shoulder. It hit me when we got a pulse back on a coding asthmatic who was blue.... It hit me when a patient bought me flowers because he made my life a living hell a few days before.... It hit me when I walked my patient out the door today after having her nearly dead on pressors and intubated three days before.

It's hard to STAY in love with nursing.... It's kind of like having to blindly eat a skittle out of a bag every day at work when you only REALLY like the red ones.... You put up with the orange and purple ones... You don't mind the yellow and green ones... but when you get a red one you are in your happy place!!! That's how my life is....

Today was my red skittle day and it made up for my crappy orange skittle yesterday.... Get it?! ;)

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I am so glad to see people sharing moments/experiences of their lives. Some of the comments are truly inspiring.

Thank you all for sharing pieces of memories from your lives. I do appreciate your patience, hard work, humanity and honesty.

I am a pre-Nursing student and have applied to NYU's Fall 2015 session (ABSN).

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It's hard to STAY in love with nursing.... It's kind of like having to blindly eat a skittle out of a bag every day at work when you only REALLY like the red ones.... You put up with the orange and purple ones... You don't mind the yellow and green ones... but when you get a red one you are in your happy place!!! That's how my life is....

Today was my red skittle day and it made up for my crappy orange skittle yesterday.... Get it?! ;)

I love this little analogy. I'm just a nursing student, but this explains exactly how I feel about my tech job.

Hoping for more red skittle days!

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Specializes in General Surgery.

Hahahahaha this thread is hilarious. I didn't "fall in love" with nursing. It provides me a roof, food in my tummy, and health-care.

Real world nursing vs the fantasy flowery world of nursing school dont even compare.

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The look on the patients eyes who are so grateful to have you around to help them get well ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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