To be..or not to be..a nurse

To be or not to be a NURSE. That is the question.

What do you want to be when you grown up?
...I want to be a nurse someday..
i can still recall me wearing that skirt and messy blouse with my disheveled hair.. how you feel like being young again.

i am one of those people who really wanted to be a nurse.. it is because of our school nurse who gathers us up every noon time. shes plump and motherly...we usually follow her at the school clinic, and there we sat down, crowded as usual, talking about jesus and prayers. i wondered at that time, whats with nurses and jesus?

now i know why.

As i had hoped and dreamed for...i became a nurse. I am a nurse. I am proud to be one. But there are some people who are taking advantage of it..some are decoys to ruin our image...but i know that these so-called napilitan nurses...at some point will fell in love with this profession.

Isnt it great? to have a job as a nurse, doing your corporal and spiritual works, serving not only the poor but also mankind, treating the sick and the sick-kuno and the unsick.

but what happens if the nurse wants to be somebody else? i always loved reporting and creating ideas. i came to a point wherein advertising and computer works are alluring. i wanted the design, the ideas, colors, psychology behind advertising..but, i am a nurse.

i have the opportunity to work at the hospital. its mostly thorns rather than a bed of roses. but i love my station, my supervisor and head nurses, my mentors, my colleagues, and most importantly, my patients. i have felt their gratitude, i felt the professional growth in dealing with different people at different walks of life.its not that i help in their recovery, they also help in mine. but i have to give it up.maybe theres more to it than this.

some people may not go through the paths i take, by jumping in and out of a profession to the other. from hospital to the review rooms, back to the hospital and then to the review, then guess what? to the classroom. i am a teacher... me a teacher?? whew..weve done that during our college years but imagine me being in a class.alone. without your teacher, your ci. just u and the students.

im beginning to love being this weird, unconventional teacher. i do things a usual teacher wouldnt do. i am trying my experiment if i can make a change in my students lives..

even i keep changing and skipping my profession, i appreciate it.it wasnt easy for me but i get to experience a lot of things.
    i asked my friend, maam Jen, maam, why do nurses have to be nurses only at the hospital...a stereotyped nurse...or a clinical instructor..and thats it,, why cant people grasp that there are a lot of gray areas in  nursing..in reviews, as teachers, even in other professions too..
    she just said, beol, without those who teach in school, or do the review, can we have these future nurses?
i am confused, i am lost, but i guess..we have to keep on going. regardless of where we are, in a hospital, in an institution, in our homes, we are nurses through and through.
we treat the sick and the unsick. and i am sure..maybe with this new-found profession, i can make a difference in our future nurses.