Personal Narrative: What Really Inspired Me To Become A Nurse

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To continue, what really inspired me to become a nurse, is my mom, she was sick for many years
With cancer and she had heart problems but she taught me to be brave, to have compassion, support
Others and she gave me strength. When my beautiful mom was alive, she was in a never ending battle
With the hospital but she was never afraid of the doctors because of the nurses she had they were
Always smiling and trying to be make her happy and that’s why I believe my mom had not fear of being
In hospital because Of the support of the nurses. After a year of therapy and the operating room my
Mother died but I open my eyes and I notice the nurses that take care of my mother they became family
They were always worried about her and they provide

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