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This article is on how to know if nursing is for you. Before you decide to pick a career in your life, you must find out what you like doing. If you pick a career based on just salary and what other people think you should do, you will mostly likely be miserable with your career choice until you change it.
Before you decide to pick a career, ask yourself this question, “What do I want to do with my life, regardless of what other people think I should do and the money involved?”. If you throw out the pressures of what people around you “think” you should do and the money you will be making, the choice is easy.
So you think you want to pick nursing as your career choice? Nursing is an absolutely wonderful field to go into. When you are a nurse you get to see people during the most saddest and happiest moments of their life.
Your job is so special because you get to experience the beginning and end of individual human life. Most importantly though, you help nurse individuals back to their normal health.
If you think nursing is for you, ask yourself how much you like being around people. Being a nurse is all about having social skills. You have to be able to communicate efficiently with patients, their families, and co-workers. If you are not much of a communicator and find it hard to be around people all the time, you might want to question your choice of nursing.
Now ask yourself how well you and your body can handle stress and long work hours? Nursing demands a lot out of a person! As a nurse, you have to always be there mentally and physically because one mistake can cause you a patient’s life. For example, nurses sometimes have to make critical decisions in stressful situations and if the nurse can not maintain stability during the stressful situation the end results could be dangerous.
This next question that you need to ask yourself deals with the most important characteristic a nurse must possess. This can not be learned in a classroom or mastered during years of work on a hospital floor. It is not like the questions I have listed above because all of those can be learned or changed. This question deals with what a nurse must be born with and that is a caring heart. So, ask yourself how caring are you of other individuals and their needs.
In order to be a good nurse, you have to deeply care about people. If you are one of those types of people who just worry about themselves and do not really concentrate on how to help others, then nursing really is not for you. If everyone had a caring heart, the world would not be in such demand for nurses.
Before you decide to chose nursing as your calling, because that is what it should be for you…..a calling, ask yourself the questions above. If you can answer yes to all of them, then welcome to the nursing world and we are so very happy to have someone like you!
-Sarah =o)
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This post was written by Sarah on June 21, 2008
