What Makes Nursing Beautiful???

Iamjustme · Feb 12, 2006

Seeing the look of appreciation on an elderly patient's face when you do simple tasks; such as getting her sweater for her because she's cold. Watching a person's health improve with your care and attention. The feeling you get at the end of a hard day and know that you made a difference in someone's life today.

TexasPediRN · Feb 12, 2006

Making a difference in a person's life.

Getting a hug from a sick child for making them feel better, or making them smile, and trust me this means more then anything in the world (at least to me).

Knowing that you made someone happy.

The feeling that you get in your heart after a long days work complete with cranky patients, bad food, late dinners, mean doctors, understaffing, and everything going wrong- and then just having the one patient say "thank you", or "good job". All of your other concerns just melt away, and you go home realizing what a great day you had today, despite all of the bad aspects of your day.

leslie :-D · Feb 12, 2006

i work hospice and seeing a peaceful, accepting death is exactly how it should be....all the pieces fit.

just like when someone doesn't leave this earth w/o pain, these cases stay w/me for a long time and am hypervigilant. i've helped pedophiles, murderers and all sorts of 'characters' pass; and to eradicate that ingrained fear of condemnation to hell, to ease the mental as well as the physical torment, is to have truly done one's job well.

leslie

UM Review RN, ASN, RN · Feb 12, 2006

*The amazement I feel when a patient is successfully Coded and begins to respond, when just minutes ago, the patient was dead.

*The knowledge that my professional skills of monitoring and administering the correct medications, tests, and treatments worked and a very sick patient ultimately was discharged home to his/her family.

*Not being able to recognize aforementioned patient when she runs up to me and thanks me in the local grocery store, because she looks so healthy and whole--and I helped make it happen.

That's pretty much it for me.

jennijen56 · Feb 12, 2006

thanks for all your posts...if there is anyone out there that would please respond as well, I would really appreciate it!

Day dreamer · Feb 12, 2006

The moments following the birth of a long awaited child when a mom holds her baby in her arms and looks at her partner with such strong love in her face. Being allowed to witness this moment is why I do what I do.

Nutmeg5575 · Feb 12, 2006

I recommend the book Chicken Soup for the Nurses Soul. It is full of many stories on why nursing is beautiful.

jennijen56 · Feb 12, 2006

thanks again! Please keep it up! I will have to go look for that book.

nan1993 · Feb 12, 2006

For me the care of all aspects of patients needs. We have patients in our neuro unit that are not ever supposed to make it. But they come back to say thank you, maybe walking or in a wheel chair. What gets me is they remember you for all you did, that does it for me.

arelius · Feb 12, 2006

I'm still a nursing student but one of the reasons I decided to go into nursing was because of the fast pace that the job requires. I'm the type of person who can't sit for very long, I get bored very easily and I hate standing around with nothing to do. I love to run around, feel challenged, use physical and mental strength and I love to make people happy. I just couldn't image sitting behind a desk all day. I would go crazy. I simply NEED nursing to fell good. That's one of the many reasons that nursing is beautiful.:roll

jennijen56 · Feb 12, 2006

Thanks! These are such wonderful posts! I hope there are more to come. they are very inspiring! All of this just makes me feel even better that I did become a nurse:nurse: