Book of Nurses: Chuck.

After a successful career as a software developer, I now find myself spending all my free time preparing to be a nurse. This wasn’t always my dream, but the older I get, the more I realized that I needed to do more than write code to develop the next somewhat useful application of which there are already ten available for purchase. So, I returned to nursing which I had abandoned 20 years ago because I thought it would take too long to finish. And now that I’m deep into my nursing education, I know this is the right career for me. When I was in my fundamentals class, I was assigned to a patient who was very frail. As I went to care for this little-old-lady patient, I touched her and she startled awake. She looked up at me with pleading eyes and said that she was so glad I was there. So glad. She said that she loved me “with all her heart”… repeatedly. She grabbed my hand and held it as tight as her trembling grip could. I think that’s the love that she needed back. From me. She was projecting it out because she needed it in return. That’s the degree of care that we need to be able to give. Our patients demand it; need it. And if you’re made for this, you’ll respond to it, and not run from it. They need my strength and my skills. They need to feel confident that I will love them by giving them the best care possible. And by doing it, it fills me with a sense of purpose and reason to excel. That’s the source of my pass...
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