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14 Responses to “Born to Care”

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   poody
   June 19th, 2007 at 11:43 am

   I am the same way. I grew up with nurses all my life. I truly never even considered anything else for myself. I always knew

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   Doc's Girl
   June 19th, 2007 at 12:45 pm

   I have such a soft spot for nurses as my mom was one…her caring and compassionate nature is something that I really miss today. It’s something that everyone remembers about her, too…:)

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   MadMike
   June 19th, 2007 at 12:55 pm

   This is an outstanding post MJ. I am considering stealing it. I hope you don’t mind. The picture and the caption gave me goosebumps. Finally I have always had a soft spot for nurses. Like cops they have tough and often thankless job.

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   Anonymous
   June 19th, 2007 at 2:46 pm

   I had a question for you about travel nursing – could you e-mail me at @amnhealthcare.com">laura.gilbert@amnhealthcare.com?

   thx

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   Mother Jones RN
   June 19th, 2007 at 2:46 pm

   Mad Mike:

   Feel free to steal away. You are always free to use anything thing that you find on my blog.

   I love cops!

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   Jen M. Gorman
   June 19th, 2007 at 10:10 pm

   Mama Jones -

   My mom is a behavioral health RN, my mother in law an LPN in a family practice.

   I’ve never seen the selfless devotion they each exhibit daily anywhere else in my professional life. Both view nursing as synonymous with healing and caring. It’s a verb, not a job.

   They aren’t afraid to be loving when needed, harsh when called for, and brave, optimistic, and energetic in the face of seemingly insurmountable demands on their time.

   Thanks for the awesome post! I think I’ll give both of them a call…

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   Serena
   June 20th, 2007 at 3:34 am

   Well, okay, you just made me tear up! I first wanted to be a nurse (a Navy nurse) when I was 6 years old watching the orphan rescues in Vietnam on TV. But my family told me I should be a doctor, instead (this was the 70′s, girls can do anything, why would you want to be “just” a nurse?). I finally came around, work as an NP, and love it! Thanks for your post!

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   911DOC
   June 20th, 2007 at 4:25 am

   well that’s why i went into medicine. hope it pings positive on the cosmic karma-meter. sounds like when i get sick i need you to be my nurse.
   toodles.

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   Not Nurse Ratched
   June 20th, 2007 at 8:06 am

   I wanted to be a nurse when I was a child, but my mom told me, “You don’t want to be a nurse. You can be anything you want. You can be a doctor or a lawyer.” This attitude is terrible! Nurses are not just caring vapor-heads.

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    kario
    June 20th, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    Ain’t it the truth? The lessons we teach our children impact them so much more than we may ever know. Glad your parents gave you the gift of compassion. I’m sure many scores of your patients are thankful, too.

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    Jean-Luc Picard
    June 20th, 2007 at 3:08 pm

    That’s a wonderful picture. The desire for nursing starts young.

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    Amrita
    June 21st, 2007 at 12:58 am

    Nurses are angels in flesh and blood

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    health watch center
    June 21st, 2007 at 7:53 am

    Hello Mother Jones,

    Lovely picture and wonderful quote.

    Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter’s or sculptor’s work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God’s spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts. ~Florence Nightingale.

    SHZ.
    Self Help Zone

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    MadMike
    June 21st, 2007 at 3:48 pm

    MJ I am going to dedicate next week’s blog to nurses using your picture and caption. It is so appropriate. I am glad you love cops:-)