What does it take to be an RN?

[maggijo]

Please tell me the ideal personality characteristics of a successful RN. What kind of person will love and be good at this profession?

[UM Review RN, ASN, RN]

I think it should be one of many characteristics of a good RN, not on a list of things that a nurse SHOULDN'T be, as you originally wrote.

I never said that, though. All I said was that compassion wasn't going to be enough to keep a crashing patient alive. There's way more to nursing than caring.