Comments on NurseZone Blog: Nursing Diary: Are Passion and a Calling Pre-requisites for Being...

Thank you, Lisa, for your comment! Your view of th...

2011-09-21T22:13:08.236-07:00

Thank you, Lisa, for your comment! Your view of the subject is very practical---and I agree that a "calling" is perhaps a bit romantic.

Glenna

I agree with you - I don't think you need to f...

2011-09-05T13:51:06.174-07:00

I agree with you - I don't think you need to feel a calling in order to be a good nurse. That is a nice romantic view of life, but life is more complicated. People choose their careers for many different reasons. A good nurse needs to have compassion for people, and a nurturing personality, but she may choose her profession for very prosaic reasons as salary, availability of work and many

Hi Dawn! Good to hear from you again. Thanks for s...

2009-11-10T08:13:04.454-08:00

Hi Dawn! Good to hear from you again. Thanks for sharing your story. I suspect that most of us have a unique story re: how we ended up as nurses. I'm just now finding your message as my blog is on hiatus for awhile and I haven't checked the site for quite sometime (obviously). I have a new grandbaby (my first) and have thought of the little video of you singing to your little grandbaby.<

Hi Glenna, The Singing Nurse checking in. I chose ...

2009-09-15T19:41:38.406-07:00

Hi Glenna, The Singing Nurse checking in. I chose nursing as a kid out of high school because I wanted to help people. Not sure but it all fell through at that time, got married, had 3 kids and I didn't go back to nursing school until my last child was in school. Frankly for me the final deciding factor to go back into nursing came when I was painting windshield advertisement on cars as my