Nursing 'legacies'? How many of you have nurses in your family?

RNbeach, ASN, RN · Mar 11, 2003

My older sister and my cousin are nurses! My cousin was actually the one who inspired me to return to school as well as a good friend, she is a 2nd career nurse and loves it! She is my biggest cheerleader!

rebeccajs · Mar 11, 2003

My mom is a nurse, her two aunts were before her. I was geared from the time I was born to follow in my mom's footsteps. In kindergarten, i was the nurse in the "when I grow up" play. It was always a given. Luckily I really enjoy what I do! Also on my Dad's side, 2 aunts and 4 cousins are nurses! Definitely a family affair!

CraftyLPN · Mar 11, 2003

My mom is a LPN, as is my sister, both me and my SIL went to LPN school together and then there is my 4 aunts who are nurses...2 RN's and 2 LPN's:D

P_RN, ADN, RN · Mar 11, 2003

Wow, no nursing shortage in this thread. I am the only one of my sibs who is a nurse. One sib is a System Analyst and the other an office manager/attendance clerk in a hospital school.

The rest of my family are "business types" save my late cousin who was a medical technologist.

When I met my hubby I found out his sister is an RN , his late sister's mil was an LPN. Now the late sister's daughter is an RN.

I agree that our dinner conversations are less than intriguing to the rest of the family.

Many years after she died I found out my Dad's mother had WANTED to be a nurse but her mother wouldn't let her! This would have been in the late 1890's or early 1900's.

nimbex, RN · Mar 11, 2003

Just me, and tell my children.... never..... never.... what a shame to the profession, LOVE my job, am realistic that it is so tough that I want better for my children.

Sorry, last few posts have been negative like this, but the fact remains that this is the easiest (loving your patients) and toughest (fighting through 10,000 processes to give your patients good care), and I want more for my children than this..

Me, wouldn't change what I do for a second. Yet I hope to be the first and the last nurse in my family line.

kids · Mar 11, 2003

My Mom and several Aunts (on Mom's side) are all RNs. None on Dad's side. I didn't want to be a nurse but needed *job training* and my Mom's approval...luckily I turned out to be good at it. Daughter wants to be an RN...want her to be sure its not an approval thing also, hopefully will be starting MA school soon.

RN2B2005 · Mar 11, 2003

My maternal grandmother and great-grandmother were both nurses; my maternal great-grandfather was a surgeon in Hamilton, Ontario in the early 1900's.

Funny thing, my mother can't stand blood, nor can my brother.

SmilingBluEyes · Mar 11, 2003

Let's see. My grandmother was an RN diploma graduate...circa 1928. I have one of her old OB text books printed in 1922. An amazing inheritance for me, an OB nurse of the 21st century. Her husband was a pharmacist who owned his own pharmacy in Chicago thru the early 60s until his untimely death.

My aunt (also a diploma grad) has been a peds nurse since 1962 and is still actively practicing. Two of my cousins are also are nurses; one working a in a GI lab as an RN who just finished an LPN-BSN bridge program; the other is an LPN who currently does home daycare, not nursing outside her home. I guess we have a few nurses in my family with me being the latest in the line, having only just been in practice 6 years now. My 4 year old daughter tells me she is going to be a doctor. I have no doubt she will if her mind is set; she is stubborn. I will do nothing at all to discourage that. She would be the first in both families to do this.

researchrabbit · Mar 11, 2003

My mom's a nurse. Two of her sisters were nurses. MY sister is a nurse. My sister's husband is a nurse. My best friend is a nurse. No way was I going to be a nurse (went to school at 40, couldn't deny it any longer!)

leeca · Mar 11, 2003

l'm the only one in my family to be a nurse. l'm actually the only female in my family that has any sort of career.

My mum never had a career, she did odd jobs now and then when l was growing up, it wasn't encouraged for females to have a career, as the view was that you get married and hubby looks after you.

lt feels fantastic to break the mould and be the first to get a career, l became a nurse because thats what l wanted to do.

spineCNOR · Mar 11, 2003

My Mother, an aunt (Mother's sister), one of my Aunt's daughters, and I are all graduates of the same diploma school.

TracyB,RN, RN · Mar 12, 2003

Let's see, paternal grandmother, 2 aunts, 4 great aunts( 3 nuns), mom worked in central supply when I was little, until she went back to school(non-medical). My cousin is in nursing school, as are a few kids I used to babysit. My oldest (14) wants to be either a veterinarian or PT, my youngest (5)says she wants to be a "doctor that cuts & sews sick people."