It is a great honor to be a nurse! Whether you have been a nurse for many years, are considering a career change to nursing, or just graduated and are searching for your first nursing job—you are likely to have these 3 things in common with all other nurses!

You Are Always Taking Care Of Others

Since a young age, you were the one who came to the rescue. While others might run the other way or avoid anyone who is sick, because they do not want to get sick too—you go all in!

• The sight of blood or the unappealing aroma of bodily fluids does not faze you.
• You feel good when you can make someone else feel better, if only for a moment.
• You don’t take it personally when an ill or injured patient has a few less than desirable words to share.

In fact, after all of this—you feel an overwhelming sense of fulfillment and find helping others to be highly rewarding.

You Can Read Doctor’s Handwriting

While electronic medical records and online prescriptions are certainly making things a bit easier, as a nurse, you are required to decipher a doctor’s handwriting without inquiry. In fact, your patient’s health depends on it. But there’s no need to worry, because you have the uncanny ability to read the rushed and sloppy handwriting of your physician counterparts.

You Can’t Imagine Doing Anything Else

As a nurse, there are days that try your nerves, and patients who try your patience—but you simply cannot imagine doing anything else.  In fact, you were likely to have known what you wanted to do from a very young age. Even if life initially took you down an entirely different career path, you couldn’t ignore that your career in nursing was calling!