Personal Narrative: My Road To Becoming A Nurse

My road to becoming a nurse was both difficult and comedic; it was two years of school while still working, hours upon hours of going over material that you did your best to understand in class and cram before the exam-over and over again. Then there is the boring, long, hot, clinicals two to three days a week in those atrocious solid white scrubs that made you look and feel like you are a huge marshmallow, we called ourselves “Team Michelin”. We spent more time with each other than we did our own families. And a social life? Non-existent. Finally it’s Graduation Day, the culmination of all our hard work and dedication, what we have strived for since day one of nursing school. The Pinning Ceremony itself is very traditional with actual pinning of your Nurses Pin on you by one of your instructors, the Florence …show more content…
My best friend Emily rode with me and told me afterwards that two other graduate nurses ended up leaving the test, crying in the bathroom, and finally went back in to finish their tests. I felt pretty darn good about sticking it out, sucking it up, and not crying in the bathroom even though every fiber of my being wanted to run out of the building; I think that comes with moxie and maturity. I have found that God has a sense of humor. I thought my destiny was to be a Hospice Nurse, I have a gift for comforting people. I took a class entitled “Introduction to Healthcare”, and realized that my favorite parts of that class were dealing with Trauma, and End of Life care. I felt, and still do feel, that being able to provide the dying with dignity and respect was my Calling. Yet where did He provide my first job out of school? The very busy EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT of a regional