Nursing personal essay

What Makes a Nurse

I would not say that ever since I was a kid , I have always dreamt to be a nurse . I never really thought about the profession that much . I was never really interested in medicine or anything that involves taking responsibility of a human life . I believed that those kinds of professions require great emotional stability , so instead , I initially engaged in a profession where I did not have to deal with any life-threatening situation or death

As a result , I enrolled and finished my bachelor 's degree

in Business Administration in a business school back in Vietnam in 1997 . I also worked in different business companies and attempted to build my own business . Everything was going well until my brother died . He was the closest to me , so the accident changed everything in me - including my views in life and decisions . It was in 1999 when he got killed in a car accident . I was with him in the hospital when nurses and doctors came in rushing to his aid . I saw them attaching him tubes , cleaning his wounds and trying to stop the bleeding . They were all over him and everybody was talking at once , including my groaning brother who was too weak to yell his pain . I was there standing - doing nothing but watch him as the doctors tried to save him . I have witnessed how he suffered and how he wearily cried in pain as the nurses tried to get the shards...