What nursing means to me is healing in a compassionate way.
Yeah, I would say nursing is definitely a calling.
We're born with just this desire to help and to nurture.
What nursing means to me is being
able to make an impact on people's lives.
It goes beyond just caring for the medical problem it's--
Treating them like myself and my family members
that are going to be treated as well.
I try and approach every patient and treat every patient
like they're my friend or family member.
So for me, especially it's like such a privilege
to be able to do this job.
What nursing means to me is giving compassionate quality
care on people's worst days.
It's an opportunity to give back to the community and pay for
Being there for them in their time of need.
To me, nursing just means being there for my patients
so that they don't have to go through this alone.
Nursing to me is being there for the patients.
Helping people most likely on the worst day of their lives.
Treat this as if this was your mom or your dad
or your brother or your sister in bed,
and that kind of stuck with me.
My father passed away and the nurses that took care of him
actually inspired me to go back to school.
It's a beautiful profession.
It really just is.
It's a motivational type of job.
It's not necessarily a job.
It's more than a career.
It's more like a passion.
And it's a commitment.
I enjoyed nursing.
I've been a nurse for 40 years now.
I enjoy what I do.
Being a nurse is important to me because I
wanted to be in an industry that showed caring and compassion.
I think it fulfills me when I see, like,
a smile on their face or, like, when they're really grateful.
I don't think there is any other career choice for me.
It's always just been ingrained.
Give them an edge, give them education, be nice.
I think that that's what I like.
It's selflessness.
My goal is if I can be part of whatever the patient is going
through to make it a little bit easier to their recovery
or to, I mean, deal with whatever they're dealing with.
It's who you are.
Every nurse that I know is kind, compassionate,
a trustworthy person because patients and their families
are trusting us.
So getting them ready to go back to the community
is very important to me-- just getting the patients back
to their stable baseline.
It's really more than a job because it takes a lot
of patience and understanding.
It's beyond words when you've actually
been able to help somebody.
Nursing it's also important because we
have the unique ability to combine compassion
with competence and critical thinking skills.
And I love being at the bedside and just
being a part of just an intimate part of care.
ER nurses we see people at their worst, and within a few hours
we're able to see them turn around.
Just being able to help people when they're really ill
and are feeling really vulnerable
seem like a really special profession
And I feel like you get to be there with someone's worst day
and try to make it better.
That opportunity to help those who
are in need, and that call to action
really drew me to the nursing profession.
It really gives me fulfillment in that
knowing the job that I do gives back to the community.
It really humbles you to see everything
that you get to witness here as a nurse.
But there's also-- there's a lot of beauty and there's a lot
of sadness but it's kind of finding all--
finding kind of your niche and what you enjoy.
Nursing is important to me because of the relationships
I form with my patients.
I feel like I could give back to my patients.
And I feel like it's an honor to be
able to treat the patients that we do on a daily basis.
Makes me feel humble.
It makes me feel complete like I've
done something for somebody.
It's like a calling that I answered and I have no regrets.