I knew I was destined to be a nurse when ...

letsseehere · Feb 27, 2010

I should have known I was destined to be a nurse when dad took my 9 year old self to a revival tent where he hoped to be healed, and I lectured him that maybe god WOULD heal him if he would just take his medication. :clown:

sophie<3 · Feb 28, 2010

i knew i was destined to be a nurse when...

my mom (a nurse) brought home some medical equipment home..neck brace, tubes, incentive spirometer, wrist restraints, etc and me and my friends would take a fold-out lounge chair and reenact episodes of ER on my back porch..i was probably about 8 or 9..

blessed2bfree · Feb 28, 2010

...I got a first aid kit for Christmas one year-the best present I ever got

and ... When I saw nurses that just didn't have the heart to be a good nurse

akadimkz, ADN, RN · Feb 28, 2010

Everytime I take my son or Fiance to the hospital and I get a sudden feeling of joy, not because I am there with my family, but because i know what is in my future.

twentytenRN · Feb 28, 2010

I was a little girl and had the baby dolls that you could "feed" and they would "poop" and "pee" since they had a tube that ran from their mouth to their diaper and I watched entirely too much Rescue 911 to know that I could improvise by taking apart the plastic tubing on my play stethoscope and pretending to "intubate" my babies... What child does this?! :nurse:

hearts895, RN BSN · Feb 28, 2010

playing my plastic medical kit when i was a little girl (one of the few bright spots of my childhood).... doing all the home care for my Dad when his hand was crushed.... seeing my 1st epi of ER

TheSquire, DNP, APRN, NP · Mar 2, 2010

...when I abandoned childish notions of an external actor controlling me and embraced my own free will. :-P

9livesRN, BSN, RN · Mar 2, 2010

when I was my sister's lab rat while she was going through NS school.

I allowed her to train stuff on me, as long as she let me do it to her, and I was 10 then.

I let her start an IV on me BUT only if she thaught me how to stitch as she learned with a pig leg!!!!

there was a candy in Brazil that looked like medicine, and I would eat one when I was sad or sick, and always carried them around at school, would give it to friends when they cried!