As a child, I was always asked the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I can remember how quick and excited I was to respond with “a Nurse!” My imagination painted such an easy picture of what a day in the life of a Nurse entailed. Anyone who came over to Maw maw’s house, where I grew up, was a patient of mine with no chance of getting out of it. As I grew older, I started to further understand more than the picture my imagination painted as a child. From Kindergarten graduation to one life experience after the other, I have known I want to be a nurse.
It was the morning of my Kindergarten graduation and we had to dress up as what we wanted to be when we grew up. My Maw maw was helping me get into some scrubs she had sewn me, followed by putting on an oversized lab coat of my step-dad’s. My step-dad was an E.R. nurse and when he and my mom would come visit, …show more content…
You would think that with the blood running down my face, in my eyes, and all over the floor that I would be screaming but no, I did not even shed a tear. My Maw maw panicked more than I did as she and my Pawpaw rushed me to the Emergency Room. The nurses commended me for being so strong at the age of 8 as they cleaned the blood off of me before the Doctor came in. When the Doctor came in and they were preparing to stitch my forehead up, I remember being so intrigued with everything and asking if I could watch him do my stiches. Unfortunately, I was unable to watch, but the Doctor was completely blown away with my enthusiasm. I will never forget him telling me that I should work in the medical field when I grew up because of how much he could see the love I had for it at such a young age like he did. I had tripped or fallen dozens of times before, but that incident and the words of that Doctor was a clarifying moment that nursing is what I was born to
It was the morning of my Kindergarten graduation and we had to dress up as what we wanted to be when we grew up. My Maw maw was helping me get into some scrubs she had sewn me, followed by putting on an oversized lab coat of my step-dad’s. My step-dad was an E.R. nurse and when he and my mom would come visit, …show more content…
You would think that with the blood running down my face, in my eyes, and all over the floor that I would be screaming but no, I did not even shed a tear. My Maw maw panicked more than I did as she and my Pawpaw rushed me to the Emergency Room. The nurses commended me for being so strong at the age of 8 as they cleaned the blood off of me before the Doctor came in. When the Doctor came in and they were preparing to stitch my forehead up, I remember being so intrigued with everything and asking if I could watch him do my stiches. Unfortunately, I was unable to watch, but the Doctor was completely blown away with my enthusiasm. I will never forget him telling me that I should work in the medical field when I grew up because of how much he could see the love I had for it at such a young age like he did. I had tripped or fallen dozens of times before, but that incident and the words of that Doctor was a clarifying moment that nursing is what I was born to