“Nursing is a healthcare profession focused on the care of individuals, families and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life from conception to death.”
That definition above is from wikipedia.
If I were to give a definition to nursing, I think my words would sway a little bit.
Nursing is a healthcare profession focused on attaining working experience just to be called “competent”, yet still the professional is left unemployed.
Nursing is the only profession where the professional is the one paying the institution just to practice his/her profession.
Nursing is more of an aptitude of being a call center agent.
Nursing, among all the healthcare professions, is the only profession where you could experience a doctor yelling 1 inch from your face just because you made a simple mistake.
Nursing makes up the majority of unemployed professionals.
Nurses are those professionals who even if they already have a job, still they can’t consider themselves financially stable.
A friend of mine once posted about nursing on his facebook status.
“Nurses are being scorned for being late with meds, yet they are holding their bladder because they don’t have time to use the restroom, starving because they missed lunch, being peed on, puked on, bled on, beat on & are missing their family while taking care of yours. In the minute you read this, nurses all over the world are saving lives.”
I just hope that employment and respect would greatly be given to nurses.
I’ve been a nurse for 5 years.
I had a couple of working experience.
I’m proud of my profession.
I am a NURSE.
DIARY OF A NOOB 