What was your inspiration to become a nurse?

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My inspiration to pursue nursing is my father. He was involved in a debilitating auto accident. I hate to see him in pain. He is always on pain medication and is always in pain. He told me certain nurses that took care of him were good as gold and made him feel better than the doctors did, but some nurses were bad to him. I want to be able to make a positive difference in someones life. Either if they survive or pass on, but if I can make someones last minutes valuable to them, that is worth more than anything that money can buy.

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Specializes in CRNA.

My inspiration was definitely the fact that I would have the ability to manipulate the physiology of poor protoplasm via pharmacology, abundance of toys to play with, guaranteed job placement, and opportunity to advance in my career.

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A paycheck

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I was inspired by the excellent care that I received by the nurses in the Postpartum unit after I had my child. They were wonderful and somehow I knew that I wanted to be in their shoes someday. :)

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A paycheck

With no offense to wanting to have a good stable career and making a good paycheck. But from what I have seen, people who go into this profession only for the money, end up not making very good nurses? Is that true? I am just wondering because every nurse I have come across said they do it because they truley want to help the patient and to be of good cause, not only for money.

It truley saddens me to see people go into this profession only for money and reason being, if you are focused only on the financial aspect of this profession, you will do a half ass job and truley could give a rats @$$ about patient care. Thats my opinion. I am not trying to knock you for only going into it for the money, you may be a dang good nurse, but thats my opinion for those going into only for that.

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Well, I'm not a nurse yet...hope to be in about 2 years - if I get into my program. I had the most wonderful labor and delivery nurse when I had my first child. My mom had just died of cancer 5 months before my daughter was born. (That was also a wonderful experience with hospice nurses) I was so scared and really was missing my mom terribly. My nurse, Linda, got me through everything. She knew what I needed before I did - a warm blanket, a change of position to get things going, etc. My epidural came a little late and I started to freak out a little (or maybe a lot, I think I was hyperventilating) with all of the pain and its intensity. When my contractions were overtaking me and I could not remember how to breathe she got right in my face and helped me through it all. She was like a personal trainer mixed with lots of kindness. It was just what I needed. She was wonderful!

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Specializes in Home Health Care.

I have three: 1. My grandmother, who was an LVN.

2. I've always liked hospitals. When I was little, I thought all nurses looked so grand with their whites and caps on. I used to try to make my own cap out of white construction paper and things to wear around the house when I was about 6yrs old. (it was a dream come true to have my N.S graduation pict with my own real cap!).

3.The biggest inspiration was definitely by God. I had an uncontrollable yearning to go to Nursing school. It consumed my thoughts, days and nights for 2yrs before I enrolled in classes. It was as bad as that yearning I had for wanting to get pregnant.

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I have three: 1. My grandmother, who was an LVN.

2. I've always liked hospitals. When I was little, I thought all nurses looked so grand with their whites and caps on. I used to try to make my own cap out of white construction paper and things to wear around the house when I was about 6yrs old. (it was a dream come true to have my N.S graduation pict with my own real cap!).

3.The biggest inspiration was definitely by God. I had an uncontrollable yearning to go to Nursing school. It consumed my thoughts, days and nights for 2yrs before I enrolled in classes. It was as bad as that yearning I had for wanting to get pregnant.

The interesting thing is, God is my inspiration as well. There is not a day that goes by that I do not think about finally becoming a nurse and I work so hard on my school work to make sure I have the best grades possible to get into nursing school. I want to be able to help people and I dream about it, isnt that weird. But I believe doing a job that you love is the best way to live you life.

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My insperation is my grandmother and grandfather my grandmother was diagonsied with breast cancer and I was taking care of her and I was like maby i could be a great nurse. My grandfather died of congistive heart faliure when i was 13 and since then I have been intrested in nursing and the different types of treatments and medications. So i am looking at going for my BSN in the fall and down the road become a nurse practioner.

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Specializes in being a Credible Source.
...if you are focused only on the financial aspect of this profession, you will do a half ass job and truley could give a rats @$$ about patient care
Balderdash!!

One can be a professional and perform at the highest levels - in any career - even if they're in it primarily for compensation.

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

1) I wanted to be a nurse when I was little. My mom was a nurse; was going through nursing school during my preschool years. I actually changed my mind about the fourth grade and didn't actually change it BACK to nursing until I was 26 years old. =)

2) Again, my mom was a nurse, as well as my aunt and my sister in law.

3) When I was 25, I started working with a guy who was about to graduate from nursing school and become a nurse in a psychiatric hospital... and I thought that working in a psychiatric hospital sounded just about like the coolest thing ever. =) Since graduating from nursing school, I have worked mostly in med surge, but also in psychiatry; I currently am working in psychiatry.

4) Job security and a decent paycheck. =)

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I think nursing is a wonderful career. It is challenging and stimulating in so many ways that you always grow as a person. You work with intelligent and compassionate team members, who are educated. Your employer (in my experience) cares about your well-being (much more than in service jobs), and the well-being of your patients. Instead of encourageing people to buy things they don't need, you encourage them to make healthy life decisions, and make arrangements so that their lives are easier. Nurses get to teach students and clients, as well as other members of their team.

Nurses get to learn from everyone!

The paycheck is much better than in the days of when my grandmother was a nurse. Now you can support a family if you need to! And if you get burned out, or sick of doing one job, you can try something new. What a fantastic thing that is.

Truly the most fantastic thing about nursing is when you have a day where you and your team come together and do what you didn't think was possible.

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