Posted by Shadowplayers721 on August 5, 2004, at 18:43:24
In reply to Why I Should Leave Nursing, posted by Cinderella on August 5, 2004, at 16:42:11
Why do you have to stay? Don't let guilt hold you into something that is making you physically sick. From what you wrote, there is a whole other side of you crying to be explored and expressed.
As a child, you really had no choice. Someone had to take care of your mother and it fell onto you. Your life was molded from that experience. Of course, your mother's whispers in your ear remained too. Yes, there was an agenda for her. She needed you. Now, you can release those chains of bondage and be the person you always wanted to be.
Your body needs you to be the nurse to it now. Just a nurse. I don't think you body would say that. If it received the care that you gave to all those people for 20 years, how would it feel today?
You are much more than just a nurse. A nurse encompases so many roles it's just almost unhuman. I agree the demands are too much today. What if we took nurses out of the picture of everything? Who would be left standing?
As an RN myself, I have felt the same about leaving. I got hurt from moving a patient and I am not the same. Maybe, this happened to push me in a direction that I was meant all along and not the one I felt I had to do from the whispers I heard too. So, what I am saying to you is this too may be a direction change. It can be a change in a direction that you were meant to take all along. You went down one road and now it's time to walk and see a new scenery. Perhaps, this is a journey about meeting the real you and allowing yourself to be what you always wanted to be. It's not a destination. It's a journey.
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