What was your motivation that made you become a Nurse?

[Convoy2022_TrumpSupporter]

I guess in my young life, there are very few things I could have done successfully, but being a Nurse is sure one of them. + My 2 older, sisters one is a Nurse one is an Accountant so I had that craving wanted to prove to them that I'm worthy, that I'm a man and that I belong in the same breathe as they do. 

OK, enough of my story, what is yours?

[klone, MSN, RN]

When I had my first child at 24 and needed breastfeeding assistance, I saw a lactation consultant. When he was a month old, I went to my first La Leche League meeting, and that's when I realized that's what I wanted to be when I grew up - someone who helps others with breastfeeding. At the time, becoming an RN first was the fastest route to becoming an IBCLC, so that's the route I took.

Klone, MSN, RNC-OB, IBCLC, C-EFM, C-ONQS (also, former La Leche League Leader 1999-2009).

[hppygr8ful, ASN, RN, EMT-I]

Financial Security

[NutmeggeRN, BSN]

Ohh it was sooooo long ago...My mom, aunt and grandmother were nurses. I loved Cherry Ames, I did well in sciences...it seemed like a perfect  fit! In my 39th year, and relatively happy (last 28 in the same place) so I guess I'll stick with it.

[Emergent, RN]

1 hour ago, hppygr8ful said:

Financial Security

Ditto

[Kitiger, RN]

I loved being a nurse's aide. That, and financial security were the two things that propelled me.

After I applied to nursing school, my mom (a nurse) told me she would "bust her buttons" were I to become a nurse!

 

[DavidFR, BSN, MSN, RN]

A motivated biology teacher in high school made the human body sound so exciting it motivated my interested in health. Then a motivated sociology teacher ignited my passion in the plight of other people.

I looked at all the health and social care professions: medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physiotherapy, dietician, social worker etc.

I decided nursing and social work were the professions where you most looked at the patient in their globality, but that it was nursing which gave you the most variety in terms of ongoing career choices (I.e. not getting stuck in one speciality) and higher studies (looking at the social, psychological and anthropological as well as pure hard sciences).

[kbrn2002, ADN, RN]

I was a young mother in need of a job and a SNF hired me as part og a group of CNA's and paid for the training. I worked as a CNA for 5 years before deciding to go to nursing school.

Honestly what motivated me were a couple of the awful nurses I worked with. Most were good, a couple were great nurses but two in particular were so incredibly lazy if it weren't for the CNA's doing a large portion of their jobs it wouldn't have been done. We did tube feedings, administered the meds after the nurse poured them, even did the glucose checks which in our facility CNA's did not do. I never saw them do any kind of assessment, these two just relied on what we CNA's told them. So I decided as long as I was already doing quite a bit of the work I may as well go to school and get the degree and make the money for it. 

My mom was a nurse. To her credit she tried to talk me out of it, LOL! But she did of course support me in the end.

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

Back in the Dark Ages when I was about 20,  I was admitted to the hospital for some tests (back in the day they did that) and was there a few days and got so see the nurses in action and I was impressed with how smart they were and how they ran the hospital.

I didn't become a nurse right away but about 10 years later when I was broke and going back to school I remembered my experience as a patient and thought I would give it a try, especially since I've always been good at the sciences.  It took me five years to get my ADN and then 15 years later my BSN.  I had no idea it would be so difficult to get that ADN or that it paid as good as it did.  Just felt like the right thing to do.

My motivation was that at the time to get an education was that I was a failure and broke and working for the then minimum wage of $3.00 an hour.  LOL

 

[AdobeRN]

Money and financial security. 

Nursing/health care was always something I was interested in.  In my late 30's, with a husband and 2 kids - we were already struggling as it was and husband lost his job unexpectedly - no money, no savings etc.  We took a job as onsite managers of a storage facility, compensated with a small monthly salary, place to live "rent free" and I was able to go to school for nursing.  

[SmilingBluEyes]

I was interested in all aspect of nursing and medicine, too. And I wanted a way to support myself independent of my husband. I did have a couple of nurses take awesome care of me when I had my son, too. That inspired me.

It's really that simple.

[NurseLove78]

My motivation for becoming a registered nurse was the desire to belong to a highly professional group of women. I’ve found my practice is lacking in that area and am looking forwarding to finding another reason to remain motivated.