LOH Contest, #314: The Best Place To Spend New Year's Eve
When you ask am average person about where they would want to spend their New Year's Eve, some may say with while, while some would want to spend their Holiday exploring one country or the other.
There is an amazing feeling that comes with spending New Years Eve with family - eating, drinking and enjoying that family time with each other. It's something that a lot of people would want.
I would love to spend my holiday having fun with my family and friends. Aside from that, there are a whole lot of other places where I would want to spend my New Year's Eve, one of which is with myself. Just me with my thoughts, making plans for the new year.
One of the major things that made me decided to become a Nurse is the pay. I had no zeal or passion for Nursing. I googled the wages of Nurses, and what I saw sparked something in me that wanted me to be a Nurse.
During that time, in my first 6 months of being a student nurse, when the Nursing anthem played, I kept mute because I knew that I wasn't in the field to serve humanity, rather, I was there because of the good pay Nurses get. Even when I sang that anthem, it wasn't from my heart.
Gradually, I leveled up in Nursing school and began to go for clinical experience. What I saw began to spark something in me. Something that I never thought would ever be in my heart. I began to feel compassion for patients. Empathy and wholistic care began to gradually engulf me without me even realising it.
I remember one patient I cared for as a student Nurse. He had pelvic fracture because he was ran over by a heavy duty truck. He was there in the hospital, helpless and totally dependent for almost everything. When I got home, I thought of the patient and thought of why I came to Nursing. That was when I had a change of heart. Passion for the profession gradually grew, as I tried everything possible to ensure that the patient was not just comfortable, but was wholistically taken care of. He was transferred to National Orthopedic Hospital Enugu for specialist care.
Don't get me wrong, I still love money, and I want to make money from Nursing, but my mindset changed after that case and some other cases that followed.
So, why did I say this story? Well, I would love to spend my New Year's Eve with family. I would love to travel to different places for the holiday and live good, but no. The perfect place to spend my holiday for me is with my patients, in the hospital.
If I could spend my New Year's Eve anywhere in the ward, I would want to go to the hospital and offer the little I can offer, which is compassionate and wholistic care. To me, this is the best way to spend the New Year's Eve.
Thank you for reading.
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Honestly the nursing detour got me — starting just for the paycheck and then catching real empathy during clinicals is such a human arc. That patient with the pelvic fracture probably changed you more than the anthem ever did.
I think so.
It was an amazing thing ya'know