Explain Why I Want To Be A Nurse

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As part of the application process to the Nursing program I am supposed to answer the question “why I want to be a nurse”. I should be able to answer this question very quickly yet I cannot. I cannot answer this quickly because there are so many reasons that I long to be a nurse. I did not grow up knowing that nursing was my calling. For a long time, I thought I would be a teacher, and while I do enjoy helping children I feel I have more to offer the world.
To help explain why I want to be a nurse I will share just part of my story. My story starts ten years ago. Ten years ago it was a nurses that stayed by my side while in the hospital for weeks when I was pregnant with my daughter. I had toxemia and while the doctors came and gone, the nurses