When I was a child, my teacher used to ask to write essays on what aim of life ours would be. I used to write it down happily that my aim in life would be to become a doctor. Then slowly life put me into that phase that I had to choose nursing as my career. In the beginning I wasn’t happy because everyone from my friends to relatives thought that nursing is nothing more than a lapdog for doctors. Nurses are thought to only   deal with cases of minimal importance like providing medicines, injections, advice regarding diet etc. Now, as I have been through this profession, I have gained a deep respect for this profession and I wear the title “Nurse “with much pride and enthusiasm.

Nurses have the power to promote comfort and relieve strife. They have the capability to build positive vibes and patience in patients who might have lost hope in their life. They are the great blessings of humanity. They know how to calculate and manage the pain of patients on the basis of mild, moderate or severe degrees.

They don’t need prescriptions from doctors to provide comfort, compassion, and care to the patient. They are humans with a tender heart and caring hands. They are the ones who open the eyes of a newborn and gently close the eyes of a dying man. It is indeed a high blessing to be first and last to witness the beginning and end of life.

Speaking of personal benefits, nursing as a profession teaches the importance of love, compassion and humbleness. It emanates the very roots of humanity from within. It strengthens the critical thinking and communication qualities. It teaches maturity from early ages by helping to understand different stages of life from newborns to old people.

It teaches adjustment in life is what everyone should learn from nurses. People overlook psychological care that nurses primarily provide. There exist many problems among nurses like professional disempowerment, exploitation in job settings which have created frustrations, dissatisfaction and anxiety among nurses even though they provide caring hands to everyone equally. And despite constantly coping with problems like low nurse-patient ratio, and even problems like gender discrimination, they are driven by a selfless motive to promote health, prevent illness and achieve optimal recovery from or adaptation to health problems.  So “let’s make a plea not to discriminate nurses but to respect them and thank them for their service.”