What is your motivation in taking nursing as your course?
Whenever I hear this line, I could not grasp the most accurate passage to ascent as an answer. I, myself, personally am in dubious why I took this course.
I still commemorate the days when I articulated that I would not take nursing as my course for the reason that people only took the necessity of the profession in order for them to conform to the demand. I was holding that principle for almost half a decade and keeping my word that I would sure end up as a certified public accountant.
Yes, nursing is not on my top priorities. I have that epitome that once you are a nurse; people incline to look at you as their servant, their nanny. Despite the reality that I want accountancy as my course, I could not bear to break the prospects of my mother. Ever since, she desired me to be a nurse in the ground that she’s working outside the country and projecting to stay there for good, she wanted me, as well as my brother and sister, to be with her. And here I am, awaken one day, wearing the college uniform for nursing.
At first, it was very unmanageable to put yourself in the situation where you know you are not suitable in. However, later on, I already adjusted myself to the place where I am in, to the specified situation where I have to dwell with different people, new faces. I already made my circle of friends to whom I realized that I was not the only one who suffered the pain of taking nursing.
Another thorn in my part is the high expectation of everyone around us. Nursing at West Visayas State University, as its name suggests, one of the respectable universities in the country and one of top-performing universities, you can really feel the pressure running to your veins. There is no place for mistakes. You should always give the best, perform the best and please everybody.
But everything changed when I heard this line.
“Nurses are angels with stethoscopes”
Simple but it really caressed my heart. Looking forward, after four years of struggle, I’ll be on the point where I will call myself angel. Is not that marvellous, I am an angel. I’ll be the guard of my patients, I’ll be their crying shoulder, I’ll be the one who will give them the most comfortable situation I could ever give and most of all, I’ll be catering their needs. In that way of perspective, my vision in life drastically changed from a simple planned event into a worthy life.
Now, whenever I encounter the question stated above, I am giving a straight answer, proud, and say, I want to be a nurse because I want to be an angel.
