Week 1: Why Nursing?

     Since I've gotten into the TCC nursing program people have asked me over and over, "Why do you want to go into nursing," as though I'm choosing punishment over cake.
     Standing in front of someone and giving the standard beauty pageant responses like, ' I'm just really sensitive to  others' or ' I have the mental toughness to handle difficult situations,' seems a bit self indulgent.
     So instead I tell them, "Because it's like superhero work!"
     This of course has elicited confused looks and raised brows,  but I think it is a better description of my desire to become a nurse. A superhero saves people because it is what he/she is put in the story to do.  The superhero (like a nurse) swoops down and pulls victims back away from the brink of destruction and then goes on to their next victim in peril. No time for accolades and glory( that's the doctors department) there is always plenty more mayhem coming your way.
      Nurses are in the trenches and that is where I want to be. Pulling patients out of the path of oncoming doom and then coming back again the next day to fight the battle again. I can't wait!!