You know, nursing is a vocation, and only certain people are called to be nurses. Some might be the mothering, smothering kind of individual in their own right, while others might be well-organized and slightly less empathetic.
But it doesn’t mean they were meant to be nurses or particularly good ones.
Nursing school is a bear. I have been so blessed to have two exceptional RNs as sisters-in-law, both of whom were extraordinarily knowledgeable about every facet of their fields and consummate professionals, besides being two of the biggest, softest hearts I’ve ever known.
The oldest, God bless her, was accepted and started nursing school as a second career in her late 40s. I can’t wait to ask her about the hiring parameters the much esteemed Mayo Clinic outlined in a recent job posting. For a position and occupation that…
