Nurses Seeing Miracles
Even if at first you don’t believe in medical miracles, there are stories such as the ones below told by a veteran nurse, that might make you think again. Janna Bullock, an RN, MSN affiliated with Mattel children’s Hospital, UCLA, could probably confirm similar stories as well. Nurses see these miracle stories every single day which is probably what makes their job – although extremely difficult – incredibly demanding.
Nurses: A Calling in Life
Many of these nurses believe that their job is way more than just a job; they just see so many incredible things the whole time that it becomes their calling in life. That is how Janna Bullock feels. When you are in a room with a woman giving birth and the monitor shows the loss of a fetal heartbeat and 10 minutes later the doctors and nurses pull out a perfectly healthy baby, you have to believe in miracles and cannot possibly just go home and act as if nothing happened to you that day.
Miracles: Part of a Nurse’s Everyday Events
This particular nurse tells of how she even saw her own teenage child recover TWICE from what doctors thought was a terminal cancer and is now a healthy young adult. There have been a whole handful of individuals she has seen being treated at the hospital for deadly diseases who have recovered and have left the hospital, to go on to lead a normal, pain-free-life that no one thought possible. This is clearly a miracle. You just need to look at those who have overcome tragedy to believe in miracles, but being a nurse helps. And that’s why Janna Bullock loves her vocation so much; it is a way of life to watch these miracles on such a regular basis and she wouldn’t change it for the world.
Nurses: The Miracle Onlooker
Nurses aren’t there to make diagnoses. They just sit on the sidelines and watch the doctor. But what they do see – time and again – are the errors in these diagnoses, not because the doctor is bad or incompetent, but more because they just don’t know. They don’t know what miracle is around the corner. And that is what is so great and rewarding about being a nurse; you get to witness it firsthand.
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