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It is amazing how many lives a story can touch. Everyone loves to read and learn through others' experiences as well as their own. Travel Nursing Headquarters has created this section for nurses, nurse educators, and patients to submit their personal stories, from heartwarming to humorous, to share their defining career moments with others.
Support the nursing profession and inspire nursing students by sharing what inspired you to become a nurse and sharing your nursing success stories, experiences, and responsibilities. In addition, nurses and patients are welcomed to write stories and thoughts on how they have touched each others lives in special ways. Share your personal stories and touch lives all over the world.
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PATIENT COMES TO LIFE?!
One of my most memorable nursing stories was when I had first started my nursing career. As a new grad, I was with my preceptor and the time had come to experience my first death. We went into the room and as we turned the patient, he moaned! I was so surprised, I jumped about a foot in the air and screamed. My preceptor and I both ran out of the room as fast as possible. Once we were in the hallway, she asked what was wrong. I thought the man had come back to life! It was then that I learned that it was just the rest of the remaining air in his lungs leaving his body!
-Marlene from NC
TOO BIG TO SWALLOW
I came in to give my patient an enema. When I told her she would need to take this, her eyes got as wide as an owl's and responded by saying, "No way! I'm sorry, I can't swallow that big of a pill."
CLOUD NINE
One night I was caring for a teenager who had been involved in a serious car accident. By the end of my shift, when I was tired and worn out, I saw his dad come out of his room and up to the nurses station. His dad, a big tough guy, said with tears in his eyes, "I just wanted to come up and shake your hand, and thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking such great care of my boy." It was then that I realized the insignificance of all my stress. For the rest of the day, I was walking on cloud nine.
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