Why did you take up nursing? What's your story?

Every nurse has their own story to tell about how or why they chose to enter the nursing profession. Some may have been inspired by a personal experience with healthcare, while others may have been drawn to the idea of caring for others. Some may have stumbled upon nursing by chance, while others knew from a young age that it was their calling. Whatever the reason, each nurse has a unique narrative that led them to become a caregiver. These stories are a testament to the diversity and passion within the nursing community and the profound impact that healthcare can have on our lives.

Please be as detailed or as short as you wish. It'll be interesting to hear everyone's stories.

[spermicides]

hello everybody! this will be my first post. the reason why i took nursing is about the girls hehe, i was already in architecture class for a couple of days and there are only 6 girls in the class and they look like men, i need some inspiration you know hehe, while the next building holds nursing and there are so many gorgeous girls in there and only few men so i decided to switch course. i never had regrets being a nurse, now i'm married she's also a nurse, i meet her on my first job in the hospital.

[sharona97, BSN, RN]

hello everybody! this will be my first post. the reason why i took nursing is about the girls hehe, i was already in architecture class for a couple of days and there are only 6 girls in the class and they look like men, i need some inspiration you know hehe, while the next building holds nursing and there are so many gorgeous girls in there and only few men so i decided to switch course. i never had regrets being a nurse, now i'm married she's also a nurse, i meet her on my first job in the hospital.

Welcome to allnurses you little stinker, you!:welcome:

[neha13]

Hi Everybody,

I am talkative by nature and want to know about people who is in my field.

I read all stries, Everyone have some strong reason for becoming a Nurse but i don't have any serious reason for that.

:welcome:

I came from INDIA 24th Des 2006 so this country is new for me. I want to become proude to my parents and my law's family. I had completed my Bachelor in Micribiology major [3 years] from India + 1 year MLT [ Medical laboratory technician course ] from India in 2006. I came here last 24th Dec and now I will start my new career from Jan 3rd 2008. I never do job. I choose nursing for many reasons............... 1st of all I would like to help needed people, secondly I want to fullfill my parents dream to become something in my life,

Thirdly I love my husband and want to help him financially, Moreover;) I love to know about the greatest creature of GOD ''Human body system''+ I love to meet new peaple and talk with them + I am on H4 visa so I want it to tranfer to H1B visa + This field is quite similar with my study and dreams + It's easy to get job in nursing and last but not least the salary range.

I am so excited to start my careere that I open my collage catalog twice a day. The most bouring thing about nursing is the pre-requisite courses. I gave Math placement test and got high marks so I transfer to MA206 Elementary statistics. Now I try to get high marks in ESL placement test so that I can save my husbands money.

I have many reasons to become a nurse. This is my boured story.

Bythe way thank you for your time:lol2:

Movie is not finished yet,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,where are you going?

I need a help to find a chesp book for all these courses so please if you have any site in your mind............help me.

[sot75]

Why nursing......that was the decision i made in 1993....I was then deciding what i really want in my life...Direction??????my mum wanted to be a nurse but she never realli did and i ask her why she like to be a nurse...."uniform nice" simply....the reason for me to become a nurse is that I wanted to be independent ......cos nursing has sponsorship and i do not need to be a parasite to my parent who are not well to do...and also i can make impact to someone life ......i do believe I did.....during my 11 yrs during my career....now as a nursing lecturer i believe i am still touching and impacting those lives out there........................................................

[katsanrn]

This is my first post so here goes. The reason I became a nurse is a interesting story. I first thought of becoming a nurse when I was in my teens, however, life had other plans for me. I became a teen mom and wife so that, for me, took priority. I have now been married (to the same guy) for twenty plus years and we now have four children and two grandchildren.

About ten years later my husband and I started driving semi-truck as a team. During this time I was injured on the job. I was pinned under fifteen hundred pounds of cargo, what the doctors referred to as a pancake injury. Needless to say after back surgery, knee surgery and a brain injury, to three sections of my brain, I was in need of some R&R (not the alcohol;)). It took several years to recover from all my injuries. The most extensive recovery was the brain injury, but, after one year of cognitive rehabilitation I regained 21 IQ points (before 131, after107, now 128) not bad I'd say. Anyway that's the short version of my long tale.

During my recovery period I had some wonderful nursing care and it made me rethink my goals in life. So, I went to the local community college and applied for admission. It took me four years to reach my goal but, I am now an RN w/ my ADN, working on my BSN .

The really good thing about all of this is that I LOVE what I do and I have inspired two of my daughters to enter into the nursing field. My oldest just completed the ADN program from the same college I graduated from. :roll

Well that's how I got from there to here.:monkeydance:

[bthynn]

Why I became a nurse.....

Here it goes when I was 18 I had been accepted to a 4 yr university into thier new Dental hygeine program....but I had a boyfriend who kept telling me he could not believe I would go to college and leave him...well then I too ended up being a teenage mom and wife...so for 5 yrs I put all my educational plans on hold...

My father had begged me to go to nursing school told me he would pay but I told him i did not want to be a nurse like my Mom and Sister....

I started college at the community college when my daughter started preschool...I tried computers...did not like it...tried business...did not like it...tried accounting...hated it...by this time I was working in a local hospital as a Unit Clerk and alot of my friends were finishing up nursing school...so I changed my major and got my AD in 1994..so 13 yrs later..I just finished my 1st semester for my BSN..

Thinking I may get my Masters and teach...but ilove Nursing and Love Helping People!!!

[flychick08]

Everyone has his or her own story about how or why they became a nurse. What's your story?

Please be as detailed or as short as you wish. It'll be interesting to hear everyone's stories.

Ok...I'm ashamed to admit it, but I initially went into nsg.school because I was madly in "love" with a gorgeous Italian med. student. Our plan was to graduate college and travel the world saving people. Yeah, it's goofy!What do you want?! We were 20 yrs. old and full of dreams and hormones!! It turned out I did the right thing for the wrong reasons....never have regretted it either.

[Cat Lover RN]

Brain, This is my first time posting as a new member for 90 min. So, here it goes. My father told my older sister and my twin-sister and I that we were going to be nurses when we were 10 years old. He said we would always have a job in-case our spouse died or was unable to provide for the family. My father was a product of the depression and welfare was humiliating. I was fortunate to see my mother care for and nurse my grandmother back to health from a stroke. She instinctively knew what to do- rehab nursing in the home in 1969. All three of us became RN's an have had continued good health and satisfaction in our career's. My father was wise, very wise. I thought I wanted to dig up artifacts in Egypt, but that would have gotten boring digging in the sand. With nursing there is never a dull moment and always something new to learn.

[brause]

Hi all

why did I become a nurse??

This question I asked more than 30 years ago.....

And today I don`t know the right answer.

Fact, since all these years(...and that were a lot) I couldn`t beleave to have another job.

I like it to work as a nurse even day....

[sleeplessonthelake]

In high school I was an orderlie, got to know some doctors, became an EMT. Then a Paramedic and eventually an RN. I retired at age 50. Now, I'm back in college studying law. Oh, the reason I became a nurse, my interest in biochemistry, early marriage, kids and the need for increased income ASAP.

[GrumpyRN63, ADN, RN]

My freshman year in college,my roomate got pretty sick and was hospitalized. I went to visit her and it was really my first experience of seeing bedside nursing in action. I knew at that moment I wanted to be a nurse and felt at "home" in the hospital. I know it sounds weird, I guess I felt I belonged there, I finished the semester, transfered to another school w/a nursing program, didn't have a problem as I was already a Bio Major, still feel hospitals are my second home

[jessiern, BSN, RN]

My granddaddy. He has COPD, DM, CHF, Renal Failure, three MI's, ect. He was placed on hospice in 2003 while I was in college. My mom and my cousin are both LPN's, and the three of us stayed with him around the clock. At the same time my grandmother, his wife of 61 years developed pnuemonia. She almost died, and in the process we discovered she had a rare form of leukemia. Her wbc's where below 1 when she admitted to an oncology floor. I stayed with her, while my mom and cousin worked with the hospice nurses to keep granddaddy alive to see her one last time.

My grandmother and I came home the day after Christmas that year, even though she was not even vaguely stable to come home. He died 30 minutes later, holding her hand. The doctors and nurses with the hospice agency were amazed he was able to hold on so long, and believed my mother was a big part of that due to her 10 years of ICU nursing experience. And it meant everything to my grandmother to be with him at that time.

I just started thinking, one day that could be my mother, father, husband, or child that needed that experienced care and I wanted to know how to give it. My granddaddy told me before he died this is what he wanted me to do, because he was sick and needed three nurses now. I know he is proud :)