soooooo WHY NURSING?

hi everyone! 😛 this is my first ever post and i’ve been wanting to post for the longest time just that i cannot find the motivation to do so. since i just had my uni interview for the same course, i guess i will share with everyone why i picked up nursing. i think it’s gna be a little long so bear w me 😃

someone once told me to just say “IT WAS MY CALLING” HAHAHA but to be frank, it indeed was my calling. frankly speaking, i am a very playful girl and nobody that knows me would’ve expected me to pick up nursing. i was in secondary school when i found out that i was actually (legit) interested in nursing. i was looking through all the poly courses and went like woah i want to be a nurse! my parents were shocked HAHA. i guess mainly it was because my grandparents brought me up and i wanted to be able to take care of them when they’re older.

well, besides that, i thought that i was bad at everything else… and since i only wanted to be a nurse, after O lvls at 16, i just proceeded to put that as my first choice 😝. 16 y/o me will never think i would’ve ever made it through nursing in poly. many of my friends and relatives did ask me if this was really the path i choose and am i really interested. knowing me, they just see me as that playful girl so even my grandparents were shocked. but yes, i am very confident to say that this is what i want to do.

of course, there were also many that asked “did you fail O lvls?” or “26 points ah u?” but no HAHAHA i went in the course out of passion 😎. sounds kind of cringe … HAHAHA my dad was a little upset i didnt choose to go jc bc i could but that wasn’t what i wanted sooo yep

my journey throughout NYP Nursing wasn’t the smoothest either. there were so many times i wanted to give up, went home crying, rushed my assignments and basically wanted a break. i constantly remind myself of what makes the job happy to me - my patients recovering and being healthy once again. i love communicating and talking to my patients too so i really think this always makes me want to go back to work. there are also not very nice people staying in the hospital but i’ve learnt how to deal w it after awhile. 😌

after i turned 18, i started going to clubs and parties LOL. and thats when i needed to juggle partying and school/attachment. initially school was still fine, it was till attachments started which was my last sem in poly. this is wrong but i wld still go out the night before if there was morning shift the next day and i would knock out after shift that v afternoon. 🙃🙃🙃 very tiring DO NOT RECOMMEND LOL. but ya i guess YOLO and just don’t let it affect your mental state at work. i do admit that the shift work is just not giving the work life balance u need but i guess… no choice i chose this HAHAHAH

all in all i don’t regret studying nursing and would love to pursue this career in the future. i thank my grandparents, my parents and my friends for supporting me through this journey 🥰. and for those who want to join nursing, there’s always ups and downs. so think before you sign up for this lovelies <3 nonetheless, i learnt a lot from this course and i love nursing (HAHA besides the work life balance ><). if you are interested in joining nursing and have questions, do feel free to ask or just comment! i will see how i can help 😀 that’s all for noww, till the next post zestiesssss 🍋

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