Professional Nursing Compassion

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My most important reason for choosing professional nursing as a career is my compassion for people and the belief that without strong compassionate caregivers our world would be a very sad place. My best example of this is my Uncle Ricky who was born with Down Syndrome and just turned 58 this year. My grandmother has shared her story of when Ricky was born. After she gave birth the doctors came in and recommended she put Ricky in an institution and forget she ever gave birth to him. Although he had no physical or life threatening health problems, the doctors said he probably wouldn’t live very long and would just cause my grandma heartache. As my grandma cried, the doctors left and a single nurse remained in the room and did something