Personal Narrative: My Personal Perceptions Of Nursing

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My personal perception of nursing is an occupation that requires lots of love, patience, empathy, care for others, dedication and skills. A nurse is the one that stays by his/her patients’ side as they are experiencing pain or even death. Nurses do more than bathing the patients or offering them pain medications. They are there to provide comfort and emotionally connect with their patients. When I was young, I was hospitalized for appendicitis. I remembered being terrified to undergo surgery, then a nurse came in and comforted me. Until today, I could not forget that moment when that nurse walked in and save my day. Being a nurse means you have offered to live the rest of your life for others and working hard to make people feel better physically