why nursing
I wanted to be a nurse when I was a little girl. I spent my grade school and high school years preparing to be a nurse. Science fairs, candy strippers, summer programs for college prep. More importantly is why I stay a nurse. Good nursing jobs are hard to find, but there are some with a tremendous amount of satisfaction related to them. I have worked in research, medical cardiology research with some of the finest doctors in the world. Usually there is nothing written about the research project and you learn as you go. You get a tremendous amount of responsibility and when you see your patients improve, you know it is because of what you did. I did home care and took responsibility to get what my patients needed from the doctors and their insurance companies. I watched their wounds that I alone was treating get better and better until they were healed and I discharged them. I taught my patients how to improve their own hygiene and health care and got satisfaction from watching them make the changes I suggested. I taught scientific experiments to the teenagers I did IV infusions on, encouraged them to get better educations for their futures. On a regular job I give patients advice, comfort the dying, teach patients how to care for their disease processes. Where else can you get such job satisfaction to know that every day you influence peoples lives for the better, their health for the better and even prolong their lives based on what you do and say.