What is it like to be a nurse?
As a fairly recent graduate of nursing school, I suppose I haven’t had as much experience as those with a few years in the field. However, I have still worked over a thousand hours on the job so I do have something to say about my profession. No other job will show you what kind of person you are to the degree that nursing does. You will encounter situations and patients that will challenge you and show what your instinctive response to them is. Sometimes what you find out about yourself is not always positive, but it always shows you what you can improve in or learn from. In this way, no other job will show you how to make yourself a better person than nursing will. Nursing is not fluffy. Before school, I had this vague idea that I wished to do nursing because I “wanted to help people.” Well, helping people, it turns out, can be gritty, incredibly difficult, and stressful. Sometimes, you’ll get a patient that you can’t stand being in the same room with because they are rude/inappropri...