Hello everyone! I am new to this group. One of my nursing classes requires us to get out there and get to know the online nursing community, so I stumbled across this discussion group. I have a question for you, if those of you out there either working as a practicing nurse or learning to be one, would be so kind as to answer. I have been reading a mixture of ups and downs as well as those saying "don't even think about nursing as a career it isn't worth it" to "best career ever!" sides of the scale. My question is: if there was an event that clicked and made all the studying/effort/hard work/crazy hours/lack of sleep/ thankless (of thankful) tasks worth it for you, what was it? Was there something that caused you to say to yourself "this is why I became a nurse" ?