People are haters, and somewhere along the way, people started to hate on the profession of nursing. And by people, I mean asians.
A warped mentality exists, in asian households, that if you are not an engineer, astronaut or grade 8 math olympiad champion, you have let the team (family) down. This irritates me greatly because the extension of this disappointment transforms into a condescension for “lesser” professions, such as nursing. A result of this ignorance is that the younger generations feel that such professions are ‘below’ them and don’t seriously consider them as viable career choices, which I feel is incredibly unfortunate.
So, I’m going to talk about nursing. And I’m going to talk about why it’s a great profession and why you should all quit your jobs and become nurses.
I have just finished my rotation on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) service. This is how my day goes:
Blast through my morning rounds on the babies. I flip, poke and prod them, listen to their hearts, their lungs, check their meds, scribble an illegible note in their chart and then check the clock to make sure I haven’t taken more than the alotted 6.5 minutes.. and move on. Then we round with the team of docs for another 2098325 hours. Next to no patient contact, hell, I didn’t get to hold a baby once!
Meanwhile, the nurses did everything else, from soothing the kids after I had made them cry, to changing their dressings, tubes and diapers – essentially acting as stand-in mothers while their real moms recovered.
I often found myself looking enviously over at the nurses rocking their 5lb patients to sleep, wondering where people got off bashing the profession. The ‘healing’ that doctors do would be non-existant without the tireless effort of their nurses.
And on a totally unrelated note,
Go Canada Go
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