Examining nursing

[monikee]

Hello!

So, since I discovered this blog, I have read many things about nursing; a few negative aspects and few gross things (like bodily fluids) that nurses have had to deal with. However, I am also very interested in knowing something. While being a nurse, has something happened to you that has made you realize and if not realize just has supported your passion for nursing? Has anything been like "Oh, nursing is definitely my true passion" or "Nursing has been the best thing that has happened to me" sort of thing? Also, based on your experience in nursing, is nursing truly worth it? Even with all the negatives along the way like dealing with bodily fluids, being disrespected for being "just" a nurse, working long hours, holidays, weekends, working very early in the mornings or night shifts, having a great and big responsibility for patient's health and required continued education and if you could, would you do nursing all over again without thinking about it? Lastly, did you ever doubt about nursing being the right career for you?

Thank you all, I am just very curious to see what you nurses have to say:)

[Davey Do]

From the thread "What Do You Love About Nursing?"

I love being a nurse, what the title stands for, what the work entails, and what satisfaction I get feeling like a contributing member of society.

I am by no means, a religious person. However, the basic principles behind Christianity are worth following. Doing techy things like working in surgery, or administrative things like being a nursing supervisor were great and I feel blessed to have been able to work in those areas. But when I stoop down to help a geriatric psych patient put on their footies, I think of how Jesus washed the feet of his Disciples. Here this great man (or whatever else you may believe), humbled himself. He made himself equal to them by making himself less than them, but in reality, he was above them.

That doesn't sound the way I wanted to convey about how I think and feel bout nursing, but maybe you can get the gist. We are servants to those with which we provide care, but we are esteemed professionals in a respected field. So, whether I was first scrub on a lumbar laminectomy with a second scrub, two surgeons, three back tables and a mayo stand, or wiping the butt of an incontinent geriatric psych patient, I was doing a job that I love: providing comfort and care to another human being.