Why I want to be a Nurse!!

I don't really have a cool story of how I decided to be a nurse : ) I just always knew that I was going to grow up, go to school, and help people to the best of my ability. I'm that friend that gets phone calls from friends when they don't feel good, or have a cut finger. And I absolutely love it. I guess its in my genes.. My mom has been a Labor and Delivery nurse for 25 years, and I love hearing about her job. I've always said that I would like to go into Labor and Delivery as well, but thats the only nursing I've come into contact with. I change my mind every day, but some ideas are being a Nurse Anesthetist, OR, ICU, NICU, or maybe actually Labor and Delivery, I have two years to decide : )

I think a nurse is any one who cares for another. Yes you need an actual degree to be called an RN, but nursing comes second nature to most any human. We want to care for and protect the people we love. The thing I love most about the nurses I have met is their desire to know about, not just the patient's well being, but their life and feelings and emotions. Nurses are there as a friend and shoulder to cry on and there as a professional to save a life. And that's what I want to be.