What was your inspiration- bc I know its not the money! :)

MY gma was a nurse for 30plus years... and ever since I was in high school I just knew its what I wanted to do. I cant (couldn't) see myself doing ne thing else.... I have to help people.

Also- I want to voulnteer later in life when I have amazing skills and go to 3rd world countires and help them... and I figured that nursing would be a great skill to have.

One more thing- My friend in high school got cancer- and she would tell me all the stories about her nurses- and she would tell me that if it wasnt for them she would have died. 6months in a hospital for a 16year old girl was rough... but she said they always made her feel great- they were her family.

My mom inspired me.....I've always wanted to be a nurse since I was little because I wanted to be just like her. There were a couple of times in my life I thought I might like a different career but I always came back to nursing.

I was in a different career and though...is this what I want to do for teh rest of my life!  Then I thought long and hard about what I would wan tto do...what wouldme dream job be.  I actually researched like every job title on the internet.  I thought about nursing and considered what I knew about it.  This was my dweciding factor...

My stepmother is a nurse...but she is not an ideal role model (insert bad childhood memories).  I remember scraping my knee after falling off my bike one day.  This situation was the only time that she actually "took care of me."  She cleaned the wound, dressed it, and asked me if I was ok.  Didn't matter who I was...she did her job.  I rhought to myself...the only thing I like about her is that she is a nurse!

Once I was in school, I knew it was meant to be. I was intigued by the field.  Loves it!

Your stories are great!

Its crazy that once u know- u know...kinda like getting married to your soulmate!

i wanted to make a difference and have patient contact. wanted to be an md at first, but didnt want to fork over the moola for med school and cutting dead people scared the crap out of me! then i found a 2nd degree nursing program and new that was my calling....

people are always telling me how much money there is in nursing. DO NOT DO IT FOR THE MONEY BECAUSE YOU WILL BE UNHAPPY.  i have never worked so hard in my life, but i love it! my patients can drive me crazy especially when you are there 16 hours and have patients that are confused and trying to climb out of bed all day... that is the most exhausting because you are telling them the same thing over and over and over again all day long....

I work in Pediatrics and I love my job so I enrolled in the Medical Assisting Program and was scheduled to start my clinicals Jan 14th 2008 when...

My husband had a stroke Jan 2nd 2008 and when he was originally admitted he was put on the cardiac floor to observe him. The nurses were so rude and he kept telling them his head hurt (hello? he just had a stroke) One nurse even told him he should stop talking.

After his results of his MRI came in that he had a stroke they moved him to the Stroke Unit on a different floor and the nurses there were phenomenal! The second night there they gave him Ambien to help him sleep and he kept having sleep apnea and would stop breathing every time he drifted off and would waking up screaming his head hurt. It sucked but one of the male nurses sat up in his room all night counting his respirations and when he vomited later that night even caught it in his hands so it wouldn't get all over him and his bed (who does that) That group of nurses brought him ice cream and graham crackers and had they great personality. I slept in the hospital the whole week and didn't leave his side. The differences that the nurses in the Stroke Unit made on our stay there made our terrible situation so much more tolerable.

That's why I wanted to go into nursing. I changed my major and now I'm going to school for nursing.

My mom and her mom are both nurses, so I'll be a third generation. I always said it was the one thing that I didn't want to be, but I quickly discovered that the medical field was where I wanted to be.

Honestly, no one in my family is in this field. My inspiration was my own health situation. I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease when I was 19 and got stuck in the hospital for 2 weeks. I then got on Remicade every 6 weeks for infusions and got to know my nurse fairly well. She and I just started talking about it, and here I am! :) 2 years going in the ER!