I love being a nurse! However, I am that nurse who did not dream of becoming a nurse as a child. Even when I worked in the nursing home (a job that I loved), I swore that I would never be a nurse!
It was not until I was older in college that I met a nurse that inspired me through her nursing philosophy of life that I knew that this was the career for me! She was absolutely right! Nursing has become my adult dream! :)
What I would like to know is your story or the reasons why you knew you wanted to be a nurse from a young age? I do not want to know that you wanted to do it for the money or that there were good adult benefits or anything like that. I hear this too often.
I also hear too often from people like me who found the calling later in life or while in school.
I am very curious to know how people knew from a young age their dreams. This is really fascinating to me.
I want to hear from people who are not like me.I want to hear the stories from the people who knew at a very young age that it was their goal to be a nurse. I am really interested in hearing your stories. Please share, my ears are open...
I have always enjoyed medicine as child. I was the one glued to MD T.V. shows and Emergency! lol. I always wanted to be a paramedic but I can't due to motion sickness. A nurse was an after thought for me. I knew I wanted to help others. I didn't realize my path until high school, when I enrolled in a CNA class. Soon after, I found job in a LTC with a nurse that was also a nun. Her strength, wisdom and caring fascinated me. I wanted to be just like her. :)
"Emergency!"
Holy Moses. I remember that show as a little kid. I had a little-girl crush on Randolph Mantooth. Ha! But then, I also had a crush on The Man From Atlantis."
Ok, I'm the oddball here. I'm the one that wanted to be a nurse from the age of 6. I don't know why, I had absolutely no outside influence. No one was sick, no one in my family had ever had a college education. My Dad tried to tell me nursing would be hard & "gross" with horrible hours but as the years passed & I never changed my mind he became one of my biggest supporters.
My favorite TV program was Quincy MD as a very young child.
I'm not a sappy kind of person by any means but I can't help but believe I got put on this earth to take care of people. At 46 I still can't imagine doing anything else.
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Guttercat, ASN, RN
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"Emergency!"
Holy Moses. I remember that show as a little kid. I had a little-girl crush on Randolph Mantooth. Ha! But then, I also had a crush on The Man From Atlantis."
There's no accounting for taste....