“Nurses, Addicted to Helping People”

“Nurses, Addicted to Helping People” From NYtimes.com, Abigail Zuger, M.D. October 29, 2012. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/nurses-addicted-to-helping-people/

“Once you get a taste for helping people, its kind of addictive,” I have first hand experience with this. It’s so true that the first time you help someone wont ever be the last. But I guess it all depends on the type of person. On the way they were raised through their childhood. “I decided to be a nurse because taking care of patients interested me. Once I started, nursing just grabbed me and made me grow up.” It would make you see the reality of life and how precious it is.

Says Judy Ramsay, a pediatric nurse in Chicago: “For twelve years I took care of children who would never get better. People ask how I could do it, … all we wanted to do was make their day a little brighter.” Have you ever wandered if there is any good in a person? I am almost positive that you would never ask your self that question about a nurse. They always want the good to come out of all situations.

John Barbe, a hospice nurse in Florida, sums it up: “When I am out in the community and get asked what I do for a living, I say that I work at Tidewell Hospice, and there’s complete silence… It doesn’t matter because I love what I do; I can’t stay away from this place.” A hospice is were people go when they are on their last leg. When they are about to pass away. To have people die almost every day has to be really hard on the mind.

“But even the best photographs are too static to capture people who never stop moving once they get to work. For a real idea of what goes on in their lives, you have to listen to them talk.” The nurses are the strongest people in the hospital. They deal with every thing in all cases. On day-to-day bases they see the most horrific things. But they always come back for the next shift because they are always need and will be always needed. Do you put your trust in the hands of a nurse? Why do you or not?