Reasons that I'm glad I'm a Nurse

Noney · Oct 10, 2003

Thanks everyone for adding on. One of the things that make me feel good is providing end of life care to the pt and there families, I'll most likely end up being a hospice nurse someday. I like it when I realize a pt really didn't understand something, but somehow "gets it" after I explain it again.

One recent thing that made proud of being a nurse was when my grandma was having a lot of leg and hip pain, I suggested Nuerontin. Guess what it worked. I would not have been able to do that if I wasn't a nurse.

Noney

Repat · Oct 10, 2003

I love nursing for all of the above - plus, IT KEEPS MY FEET ON THE GROUND!!! I leave work every shift, stop, and thank God for what I have. A real reality check every day!

grouchy · Oct 10, 2003

I like that I have a job that enables me to meet and interact with people of many different cultures, and backgrounds. I've worked with staff from Ghana, Nigeria, Pakistan, India, Russia, Canada, England, etc. My patients are also a diverse lot.

razzmataz · Oct 10, 2003

I love being a nurse and making a difference in my patient's lives. Today a patents family member said 'all the nurses here are so nice, I've never heard of a mean nurse here". That made me feel really proud of our facility and all my co-workers!

imenid37 · Oct 11, 2003

The people that I meet and the perspectives on life I get to see. For example, when I was in school for my BSN, my patient was a young, homeless, alcoholic woman that I met with at a soup kitchen. She had quite a sense of humour, but we'd have never met otherwise. She died in vacant house fire on my 25 th birthday. I consider the fact that I got to know someone like her a real gift. There was a really cool person in there behind the dirt and the odour of alcohol, but she never got to be who she could've been. It taught a lot about the dignity and value of all life.

TennNurse · Oct 11, 2003

Originally posted by Elenaster
I love that I get to share my sick sense of humor with so many others who are not appalled or offended.
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Boy, you can say that again.
The moments when I have most loved being a nurse have been when I explain to a patient how his heart/ liver/ bladder/ pregnant wife functions, and he says, "I've had this explained to me before, but I never understood it till now." I get that unique tingle of having bestowed a great gift in helping another human understand and care for his own body.
A year and a half ago I came home to Tennessee to take care of my grandmother as she was dyng. The love she inspired in us all was unparalleled, but I was the one who changed her when she was wet and gave her her medication when she was in pain and unable to speak. I knew when her BP and respiratory rate were slowing, and recognized the moment she took her last breath. It was the most blessed experience of my life. She put me through nursing school when my family was having financial trouble, and I was able to give back when she needed it most.
At this point in my life, being a nurse is a greater blessing than ever. I have come home again to Tennessee, without the husband I had a year and a half ago, and this part of my identity has been crucial to my sense of self-worth. I am not a lost 30-year-old divorcee-- I am a nurse, and if that brainless SOB in New Mexico didn't have sense enough to appreciate me, then there are hundreds of patients and their families who will beg to differ with him. I will always have a job where I am loved and needed, and right now that is worth more than rubies.
For all its faults, flaws, and frustrations, being a nurse has shown me who I really am and taught me to love her. I wouldn't want to be anything else.

Hellllllo Nurse, BSN, RN · Oct 11, 2003

What I like about nursing-

1. That "sharing sick humour" thing.

2. Making enough $ to be able to work part-time.

3. Nurses are respected by most people.

4. Being able to do good, noble and important work.

5. Nursing is both "hands on" and "brain on."

6. I am proud of being a Nurse

mattsmom81 · Oct 11, 2003

We definitely have a 'sisterhood' (sorry guys..don't mean to exclude) LOL! Yes, we bytch, but we love what we DO despite the problems.

Last week an elderly Hispanic woman dying of terminal CA asked her son to translate a message to me.

She said "God will bless you for your kindness to the sick, and I also thank you"

It really gave me cause for pause... her willingness to give a kind word to another, when she was in such dire circumstances was inspirational to ME as a nurse.

I also love visiting (when I get a chance) with my elderly patients...and hear their stories of times past. Such wisdom and perspective. :)

allnurses Guide · Oct 11, 2003

Originally posted by Hellllllo Nurse
What I like about nursing-

1. That "sharing sick humour" thing.

2. Making enough $ to be able to work part-time.

3. Nurses are respected by most people.

4. Being able to do good, noble and important work.

5. Nursing is both "hands on" and "brain on."

6. I am proud of being an Nurse

I agree with this and all of the other posts. I'm still amazed that I'm a nurse.

steph

purplemania, BSN, RN · Oct 11, 2003

I like the challenge and satisfaction my job offers. Best of all, I like the opportunity to work with competent people.

gwenith, BSN, RN · Oct 12, 2003

I agree with all of the above posts and will add

"What other job will let you travel the world??"

As a nurse we can not only job hop around our own countries but country hop around the world if we wanted to.

We are part of a global community. If you ever doubt that click on the BB stats and then click on "countries" and then sit back and think "I have something in common with all these people from all these places":kiss

Erin RN · Oct 12, 2003

I agree with all of the above..I love being a nurse not because I am a nurse rather a nurse is what I am..did that make sense?? Not may professions can you say that. Sure anyone can see what they DO but not many professions define who you ARE and become part of you....Even when I am not working, I am a nurse in mind and spirit and I love it! :kiss