My calling as a nurse

While volunteering in the Emergency Department, I felt a calling. It was to become a nurse in the Emergency Department. I was already enrolled in a BSN program, but I found where I want to be when I finished school and become licensed. There are many things that go on in an ED that many people outside of the unit do not know. Many nurses who come down from other units to lend a hand are confused as to how we operate. You can't wait for doctor's orders, we are an ER, seconds count between life and death. You go with your gut instinct and protocols. It's not for everyone and it takes a very tough person to be a nurse. It's fast paced, stressful, and demanding. I got to observe what the nurses do from initially meeting the patient to getting them admitted or discharged.

I'm here to give people an insight on how the healthcare field really works. What you see on TV is not really what you see in a real Emergency Department. Most of the things you see on TV are scripted. Sure some of that stuff looks real, and maybe real. On TV you see doctors doing many things, but in reality doctors talks to the patient for about 5 minutes and then writes orders for the nurse to carry out and delegate. It's really the nurses who do the hard-work. I believe that by becoming a nurse first prior to becoming a doctor will really help me be a great physician who is able to work with everyone on the healthcare team. Some doctors are just bad people that think they know everything just because they have the title MD/DO and they read stuff out of a book or they heard about it in medical school. A nurse who has been doing her job for more than 10 years has probably seen more than you have in school.