Blog Post #1
When it comes down to the very fundamentals of nursing or perhaps more like the foundation of what my practice in nursing will be, I view nursing as a practical way to love people. I think the most important part of a person is the soul and most people would think that this would lead me to be a pastor or missionary since they focus on a person's soul. A nurse on the other hand (especially one working in the U.S.) will probably devote most of his or her efforts towards a peron's physical needs. In the end, though, the nurse can love people in an intamate and practical way that few other disiplines can. Many people during their darkest hours of illness or tragedy depend on the nurse for nearly everything. I, as a nurse, am surrendering the soul of a person almost completly to God's care an proding. He must prepare their hearts to ask the first question while I must simple love. I guess it comes back to what was "the greatest command"....to love people.
