Years ago when I first became a nurse I was so proud to be called a 'nurse' I would have shouted it across the roof tops. The reason I came into nursing is very old fashioned and you are now criticized for wanting to help people and care.
Today if you admit you are a RN who came into nursing because you care about people and want to help them it is almost like you are blaspheming.
I read that only nurses who came into the profession for financial and career reasons, or because they lost their first job and have decided nurses is the career for them are the ones who succeed in the profession.
I don't believe it is true I think there is a place for both kinds of nurses, I also don't believe the ones who don't care are the most successful.
In my company you wouldn't get far up the ladder if you said you were in nursing because you are a career RN and that you don't really care about the patient. You have to really want to be a nurse to succeed and it becomes very obvious when you don't care about the patient or want to do the right thing
It is old fashioned to say why I came into nursing 24 years ago, although I didn't come into the profession initially as a career, I have had one heck of a career and have managed to climb the ladder to a dizzy height!
So for all those RN's out there who are frightened to say they came into nursing for reasons of caring or helping people-stand tall and be counted!
Dextrosa - GREAT POST 😊. I'm not a nurse, but I've witnessed alot of what you said; not only in healthcare, but the world in general. Madwife there's nothing wrong with admitting you became a nurse because you care; I'd pick you to take care of me any day 😉
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Dextrosa - GREAT POST 😊. I'm not a nurse, but I've witnessed alot of what you said; not only in healthcare, but the world in general. Madwife there's nothing wrong with admitting you became a nurse because you care; I'd pick you to take care of me any day 😉