Why Nursing Journal

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Specializes in I don't have much experiance yet..

I am getting ready to start my 1st semester of clinical on Aug 22nd. The excitement and nervousness has been overwhelming.

Yesterday, I wrote in my journal about how I was feeling and someone had mentioned to start a thread with what I had posted. This gave me an idea :idea: to start a thread of why we want to be nurses.

Journal entry 8/15/05

"It's funny b/c I haven't felt this way since I was a small child.

I know I have mentioned this before, but it is the best example I can give of how I feel.You know that feeling you feel as a child on x-mas eve, waiting for Santa to come so that in the morning you can open your gifts and stocking?

Am I nuts for feeling this way?? I mean, does everyone feel like this before they start clinical??"

"I don't know what it is about nursing that I love so much. I can sit here and say all the same stuff everyone says, but it is more than that. It goes beyond helping people. Don't get me wrong, I know I will have bad days and bad weeks. I know there will be times when I will want to find something else to do, but regardless, I still love it!"

Why did/do you want to be a nurse??

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Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.

.....because i want to become someone in life. i want to make a difference in the life of someone else. i have a dream. i want to live the american dream, but along with it, i want satisfaction in life and all aspects of it including my career. i want to be the first from my mother's side to attain a college degree and become a worthy person to society. i want a better future than i have now. i want progress, and the base of it is getting an education. i want my children to be proud of me, and i want to make myself proud. i want to bring a smile to someone's face and know that my hard work has payed off. i want to fulfill my dream because it is nothing other than an attainable vision, and there is nothing that can stop me (with the lord's help) in getting there. ?

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

I think I responded to your blog.

It's refreshing to see that excitement and I hope that you don't loose it. I don't regret becoming a nurse at all. Despite those rough days, weeks, months I still have it in me to be a nurse and show up every day and give my best (which varies from day to day for sure).

Best of luck to you. I can't to hear more of your journey. ?

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.
soontobe_RN said:
I am getting ready to start my 1st semester of clinical on Aug 22nd. The excitement and nervousness has been overwhelming.

Yesterday, I wrote in my journal about how I was feeling and someone had mentioned to start a thread with what I had posted. This gave me an idea :idea: to start a thread of why we want to be nurses.

Journal entry 8/15/05

"It's funny b/c I haven't felt this way since I was a small child.

I know I have mentioned this before, but it is the best example I can give of how I feel.You know that feeling you feel as a child on x-mas eve, waiting for Santa to come so that in the morning you can open your gifts and stocking?

Am I nuts for feeling this way?? I mean, does everyone feel like this before they start clinical??"

"I don't know what it is about nursing that I love so much. I can sit here and say all the same stuff everyone says, but it is more than that. It goes beyond helping people. Don't get me wrong, I know I will have bad days and bad weeks. I know there will be times when I will want to find something else to do, but regardless, I still love it!"

Why did/do you want to be a nurse??

?MOST EXCELLENT!?

You are very eloquent and spoke from the heart.

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When my son was born he had a very difficult delivery (merconium when my doctor broke my water, and then the cord wrapped twice and he had to be bagged with air for 2 1/2 minutes). I didn't even get to see him until he was 6 hours old and didn't get to hold him until he was almost 2 days old. He was in the incubator with an oxygen dome for 2 days, on oxygen in the isolette for 4 days, and in the hospital getting antibiotics and chest xrays for a week. Then when he was only 3 1/2 weeks old we were back in the hospital for another week because he began having seizures. The nurses were the ones that got me through it! My labor and delivery nurse saved my son's life. My doctor was on his way to do a routine C-section and wasn't going to come and check on me before hand. They didn't even have time to put the stirups in place because my son's heartbeat had dropped so low by the time she got the doctor in the room. The intern who would have been in the room was the newest intern on the floor. The nurses always gave me their honest opinions on what was going on, kept me up to date on all the latest test results, and definetly did their duty as a patient advocate. I want to be able to do for someone else what my nurses did for me! I will be forever grateful to them!

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jessicagmz said:
.....because i want to become someone in life. i want to make a difference in the life of someone else. i have a dream. i want to live the american dream, but along with it, i want satisfaction in life and all aspects of it including my career. i want to be the first from my mother's side to attain a college degree and become a worthy person to society. i want a better future than i have now. i want progress, and the base of it is getting an education. i want my children to be proud of me, and i want to make myself proud. i want to bring a smile to someone's face and know that my hard work has payed off. i want to fulfill my dream because it is nothing other than an attainable vision, and there is nothing that can stop me (with the lord's help) in getting there. ?

I couldn't have put it better myself ?

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jessicagmz said:
.....because i want to become someone in life. i want to make a difference in the life of someone else. i have a dream. i want to live the american dream, but along with it, i want satisfaction in life and all aspects of it including my career. i want to be the first from my mother's side to attain a college degree and become a worthy person to society. i want a better future than i have now. i want progress, and the base of it is getting an education. i want my children to be proud of me, and i want to make myself proud. i want to bring a smile to someone's face and know that my hard work has payed off. i want to fulfill my dream because it is nothing other than an attainable vision, and there is nothing that can stop me (with the lord's help) in getting there. ?

Everyone's responses are great! Jessica, I think your post is so moving. it really put into words what i hope to accomplish. i am the first person in my family to graduate from college also. That is quite an accomplishment for both of us! ?

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Specializes in Corrections, Cardiac, Hospice.

For me there was never anything else. I have heard people say they have been called to religion, or musicians say that they must create music to be happy. While nursing is my profession, it is also a part of who I am. I love it. I love the day to day interaction with my co-workers, I love working with the patients. I love being there holding someone's hand when they die and comforting their families. If I couldn't be a nurse, I don' know that I could face another day. It is as much a part of who I am as my brown eyes, lol. Even through all the bad days, I never regret it, ever. After 7 years I still love going to work every day.

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