What Matters
Now that I have been fully enveloped in my first semester junior year rotation, I have discovered more and more about nursing as a profession. I am working on a cardiac/telemetry floor in a hospital that is in the type of area that a mere three blocks away no nurse would choose to walk alone at night. But, regardless of the area, it is a city hospital which means our patients are truly from all walks of life. It is because of this that I uncovered a truly unique and special aspect of being a nurse.
Nurses have the special ability to form a connection and establish a trusting relationship with a patient regardless of either the patient's or the nurse's personal background. Though it is probably obvious to most people that if I am a student at Villanova, regardless of loans/scholarships, I am not on welfare, but this does not matter to patients. From what I have witnessed, these patients instill trust if you take the time with them, talk to them, listen to them-nothing else matters. It doesn't matter to the patient that I am Caucasian, it doesn't matter that I am a female, it doesn't matter that I am a Villanova student. All that matters is that I am doing my absolute best to care for this patient carefully, intelligently and promptly.
Nursing truly bridges the gap between communities, socioeconomics, race...the American people as a whole. This alone makes nursing a truly special profession that I am blessed to be a part of.