What Nursing Means To Me ©


Nursing to me is
an opportunity for love to grow;
an ability to care for and be responsible
for those who are unable
to be responsible for their condition;
the opportunity to do little favors
that mean so much and be repaid
with a smile and a thank you.

It's not being ashamed
to clean bedpans or "behinds,"
to monitor IV's and NG tubes,
tending the critically ill,
or being a "sounding board"
for the less medically ill
but emotionally broken.

It's receiving satisfaction
when a patient recovers
from an illness or an operation
and remaining human to share the grief
of the loss of a patient remembering
no matter what one's personal beliefs,
everybody has someone who cares for them.

Nursing is being able to touch a patient
regardless of his color
and caring all the while.
Illness knows no age, no sex,
no race, nor creed.
The Lord made us all,
short and tall, big and thin,
and in a rainbow of colors.
It stands to reason
that a woman in white, a nurse,
needs a rainbow of talents
showing concern for all walks of life,
having no prejudice for age, sex,
race, or creed.


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Copyright © 1982 Carolyn Bigler LPNII
aka Moonlight Flower
All Rights Reserved

Written for a favorite nurse, Marjorine Williams,
an RN at Good Shephard Medical Center in Longview,
Texas pediatric floor where Carolyn worked as a nurse aide
while in nursing school.




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