🩺 What does it take to become a great nurse?
Is it something you can be taught — or is it something that's just inside you?
I was asked this recently, and it stopped me in my tracks.
Is it something you can be taught — or is it something that's just inside you?
I was asked this recently, and it stopped me in my tracks.
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Who they were.
What they did.
How they made people feel.
That I still am on that journey and probably will be for life.
But still, the answer didn’t come easily.
Or is it something waiting inside us — a calling not everyone hears?
✅ Science matters in nursing.
✅ Skill matters in nursing.
Without those, you miss the deteriorating patient.
You can’t manage conditions, prevent admissions, or keep people safe.
But that’s not all.
Some say you can’t teach it.
Some say it’s the most important part.
That nursing is a vocation. A calling.
Maybe...
Somewhere between the lectures and the long, LONG shifts…
Nurses become the calm in chaos, the comfort in crisis.
Because we STUDIED it.
and also because we ARE it.