Why did you choose to go into nursing?

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Why did you guys go into nursing. I am a caring person and have always been fasinated with the human body. I surround my self with anything medical. Every tv show i watch is about doctors or nurses( hawthorne nurse jackie scrubs house greys anatomy private practice nip/tuck). This isnt all i watch but the majority of my shows are health dramas. Its an obsession. When i go online if im not on facebook im on allnurses.com. I am on my phone right now typing this. Lol

i honestly just barely decided to go into nursing a couple of mnths. ago. My mom was really wanting me to consider it in h.s. but i wasn't even thinking along those lines. On the other hand, i've always been interested in keeping the body healthy and in shape so i guess u can say im interested in the human body overall. I'm also a very sensitive person when it comes to seeing ppl. in pain, i want to help them; i have a great sense of both empathy and sympathy. Lastly, the fact that nurses get paid really well is def. a big plus because i do want to have a comfortable life for myself, plus the vacations and work schedules are flexible. I look forward to starting nursing school soon. :)

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Specializes in Oncology&Homecare.

Best of Luck to you Bree! I have wanted to be a nurse since I was 5 yrs old. Although life interfered I never gave up the dream. Nursing has been good to me. I was able to make a decent living as a single mother and I have never been bored. After 27 years I have never regretted my decision and would do it again in a NY minute. :nurse:

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Specializes in Med/surg, O.R.

I love the medical shows myself. As soon as I get home from work and settle down thats all I watch. My fiance always ask me how can I come home from working in the hospital and watch the hospital shows. I just can't get enough of it.

I knew every since I was a little girl that I wanted to be in the medical field. When I was 6 yrs old I would always tell everyone I was gonna be a baby doctor (pedeatrician). I didn't know what it was called. I wanted to be a dr up until I was 17 and had my daughter. I didn't think I could go to medical school with a child so young so I decided I would be a nurse. I love to help people and if I can't don that I don't want to do anything else.

I really believe that I was put on this earth to be a great, caring, compssionate nurse and that is what I am going to do.

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I always had a strong interest in the disease process. How it occurs, how to treat. Holistic nursing is also in my family, but it was a fasination on the disease process that drove my interest and treating it. A super fan of health tv show, ER, House, Gray's anatomy, and my favorite of all times now Hawthorne (love it Jada!). I also live on discovery health especially Dr. G, M.E. I should of went to med school since 8x out of 10 I can tell a person what problems causes what and love to give rationales and enjoy teaching people the reasons to what ever medical questions or concerns they have but don't want to be a surgeon but want to be more than a internist( also take too long to finish school 12-18 years is a very long time here ! Lol). I enjoy patient care and teaching. I love nursing because you do get to be that patient advocate and regardless if they get better or worse, they had a person that was there for them in their utmost time of need. That alone makes me proud

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Considering there isn't alot of formal education required the pay is pretty good. Um, oh yea I also like helping people.

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i remember that i used to assist in bathing and grooming one of my father's friend who had partial stroke when i was like 11 years old. My mum is a nurse but she never discussed with me the idea of me becoming a nurse. it was my father (a geo-informatic surveyor) who came up with the idea, spiced up with instances of some uncles and aunts who did nursing and were practicing in the USA. but the decision to do nursing was mine as I had a university admission to study Accountancy/Economics in the same year I got into nursing school. i am a registered nurse and Im in the UK doing my Msc occupational health. im proud to be a nurse!

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Specializes in home health, public health, Parrish nsg.

Well, I don't watch any of the medical dramas except house. I have been a nurse for 16 yrs, I love helping people and learning new things. I have wanted to be a nurse as long as I can remember. I work part time for a couple of different places and for the most part I do it because I love it and the paycheck is just an added bonus

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It was a knowing. My great g'father managed a childrens's hospital, my g'mother was pre-med before she married. y other set of g' parents were professors. I was influenced by them. My goal was to go into nursing right out of high school. Instead, I became a surg tech at the Heart Institute. Then came marriage and baby; and a stay at home mom. 32 years later, I began school to be the RN I had known I would be. I am 55 now and going into my last semester. I love helping people and learning, making it a stimulating career choice. It is going to be wonderful to love my work.

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I agree, I love all the medical shows, but the real reason why I want to be a nurse started with my daughter. She was born 11-12 weeks early & the NICU in our area was amazing, so I felt like this was my way to give back. I am currently a CMA & I have recently gone back to school for nursing because I wanted to help more. I love my job and I enjoy the people I work with and the patients I see now. I can honestly say I have never loved my work until now!:D

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Although I had contemplated it many times in the past, it was really the three years I spent working with medical cannabis patients that inspired me to become a nurse. I know it seems an unlikely inspiration, but the reality of what I saw in regards to cannabis as medicine made me realize I had to do something to bring the truth to light.

After receiving a Bachelor's degree in New Jersey, I moved to Los Angeles, California where I held various positions as a Medical Transcriber and Administrative Assistant. Between 1999 and 2006, I worked at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, UCLA Medical Center, and various physician's offices. Through various twists and turns of fate, I ended up taking a part time job at an alternative treatment center in West Hollywood, California. It was there that I learned about the healing powers of cannabis.

Over the next three years, I got to know hundreds and hundreds of medical cannabis patients. I was astonished at how well cannabis worked for so many different illnesses; from insomnia and anxiety; to chronic pain, AIDS and cancer. It treated a multitude of illnesses safely and effectively, allowing them to reduce their current medications or discontinue them altogether. However, I was also deeply troubled by the fact that so few medical professionals knew anything about cannabis as medicine, and still treated their patients who admitted to using it as though they were drug addicts. It blew me away that I had everything I'd ever been told about cannabis was a lie.

However, most of all, I was fascinated! I wanted to talk to every single patient and hear every single one of their stories. I wanted to know how they found out this federally illegal substance helped them and what other medical options they had tried before. I wanted to know what had been their opinions about and attitudes towards cannabis before they had gotten sick and tried it. I was angry that some people had been forced to put off trying cannabis for so long, and had endured so much suffering because this plant was illegal, and they were afraid to try it, or had just believed the lies for so long.

I met Multiple Sclerosis patients and watched them, within a matter of months, go from wheelchair, to cane, to walking on their own. I met cancer patients who were in the process of going through chemotherapy, who didn't even look like they were sick. I met diabetics who had begun to develop ulcers from taking so much aspirin and ibuprofen to treat their neuropathic pain, who found that switching to cannabis eliminated their pain better and without negative side effects. I met construction workers who had fallen off ladders, broken their backs and had become addicted to opiates, who were able to get off all of their opiates by using cannabis. I met Gulf War Veterans who swore that the temporary short term memory loss helped them break negative thought patterns related to their PTSD. I met firemen and yes, even local police offers using cannabis to treat injuries they received in the line of duty. I met AIDS patients who were literally given six months to live, and yet, here they were, more than two years later, healthy and claiming that their blood tests were coming back as HIV negative. I met crystal meth addicts who felt, when all other treatments, psychotherapy and 12 steps program failed them, they were able to stay away from methamphetamines when they made a commitment to give up all drugs, "except pot". I met psychiatric patients, who after years of being on an anti-depressant/mood-stabilizer merry-go-round, finally get off all their synthetic drugs by supplementing them with a cannabis-laced brownie or lemonade. And while not everyone reacted so positively to cannabis, what I experienced proved to me that cannabis was an incredibly valuable, safe medicine in general. Yes, it was an amazing experience!

In 2008, I attended the Patients Out of Time Conference in Asilomar, California with my manager, a licensed Pharmacist who has also been studying plant-based medicine for about 20 years. I was so inspired by the many medical professionals there who have dedicated their careers against all odds to promote the truth and actual science of medical cannabis, that I decided I must become one of those medical professionals myself!!

In April of 2009, I moved back to my home-state on the East Coast and began taking the courses needed to become a nurse. I passed the NET exam with flying colors and hope to begin the actual nursing courses in Fall of 2011 to receive my RN degree.

I am committed to learning as much as possible about the medical applications of cannabis, to share that knowledge with other medical professionals, and to support medical cannabis patients in anyway that I can as a future nurse.

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I chose nursing for a variety of reasons.

I've always known that I wanted to do something that involved helping people in one way or another. When I was younger (really young, maybe 5 or so), when most people say they want to be doctors...that's what I said, and that was an on/off thing through middle school mixed with being a teacher (specifically a teacher of the deaf).

In high school, I decided for sure that some health care profession is what I wanted to pursue. I did some research, talked to people, and thought about my experiences, and narrowed it down to physical therapy and nursing.

Ultimately, I chose nursing because it's a career that has so many options, and one in which I can work with people, educate them, heal them, travel and constantly learn and have mobility. Also, I've spent so much time in physical therapy as a patient that I couldn't actually see myself being happy doing PT for the rest of my life.

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