My mom was a nurse, she hated it always complained and was miserable her whole life. I never even gave nursing a thought.
Someone else posted having children got them interested this happened to me too, not my hospital stay but doing research while pregnant, loving all the medical terms, learning what can go wrong and how what a miracle the amount of times it actually doesn't. Eventually I got a job at a hospital just because the hours meshed with me being a stay at home mom, I didn't think much about why I was working there. I ended up working as the unit clerk for ICU, after 2 months of clercking it I realized I wanted to be more hands on, I worked their for 2 years but boy everyday i wanted to jump in there with the patients and nurses, whenever I had the oppurtunity I did, they were often short handed and welcomed any hands I could give them, I knew then and there that was what I wanted. That was 6 years ago been working toward that goal every since.