I feel nursing is more of a calling than anything else

[Tarrus Eliuds]

Nurses work round the clock during their shifts to make sure that their patients meet the desired outcomes,patients with different disease conditions that demand our intervention failure to which their lives are in danger,people criticize our minor mistake yet they don't appreciate our efforts

[kakamegamama]

Thread moved to Nursing and Spirituality forum.

All members can discuss the reason(s) why they went into Nursing and whether or not this included a Spiritual motivation.

Everyone is different and individual.

We invite discussion from everyone as long as replies are not dismissive and remain respectful.

I thought this topic has always been, or at least for an extended period of time has been, in the spirituality forum? Maybe I've been hallucinating.......

[brido]

I think we should cut the OP some slack. For one thing, her English isn't really that hard to understand, so what's the point in insinuating she speaks it poorly?

Second, perhaps in her native country it isn't as unusual to describe nursing as a calling. While it's not quite the same here, we could have had the chance to have a window into what nursing is like in Swaziland. Instead, she's probably been chased off this thread, maybe this site, for good.

This is an international site for nurses, not a site strictly for nurses in the US.

I wish I could like this 1,000 times.

[Maevish, ASN, RN]

This is not a new idea and there's a reason it was considered a vocation for so long. Back in my great-aunt's day, they lived at the hospital, worked at the hospital, cleaned at the hospital and you didn't do it for the money. Most times it was a religious calling and nuns would do the work as well as their religious obligations throughout the day.

It's definitely changed now, but I'm not going to tell someone they aren't called to do something or that they're going to burn out the fastest if they feel so called. Some people still consider it a ministry because, while people in other professions can show god through their actions, nurses and the clergy have been known to do their jobs for little if any compensation throughout history.

We see people at their worst and most vulnerable, as do clergy members, and I understand that viewpoint completely. I personally don't consider it a calling for me (I was dragged kicking and screaming as I felt music was my calling), but I love that other people do and find even more satisfaction in their work than I ever could.

xo

[Maevish, ASN, RN]

I wish I could like this 1,000 times.

The takeaway? Nurses and "Christians" can be very hateful and rude.

Thanks for dittoing this post!!

xo

[Maevish, ASN, RN]

It is possible for someone who is not a nun nor a priest to be called by God. I'm neither, far from it. But, I have known since I was a girl of 10 that part of my calling in life would be to be a nurse.

I believe so...you felt a pull to this career for whatever reason. People who are religious just believe that it was their specific deity that called them particularly. Good for you and I wish I'd felt that early on!

xo