Lpn to Rn intervies

After an interview with one of my very close family friends I learned a bit more about whom nurses are and what they do. Lori Broccolo has been a part of my life from birth till even now. I asked for a quick interview and of course she was excited to be of service. I asked her a number of questions about her career in nursing. I started out with why she even became interested in the nursing field. As I listened I soon learned that most nurses are inspired by an event in their life, something that they experienced that directed them to go into a field where they could care for others.

As I reviewed the interview I became inspired as Lori explained to me why she decided to become a nurse, when she was 24 her mother passed away from non-smokers lung cancer. After going through the struggles of watching her mother pass on hospice she become introduced to all the people that surrounded her as she let her mother go.  She then made a promise to herself that after her three sons graduated she would go back to school and become a nurse. As all jobs, nursing has its positives and negatives. Not all days are good days; you often have a bad day and even two bad days in a row.  As I asked her how she was able to deal with those bad days she gave me quote that she was given by one of her fellow coworkers. “We all have bad days, its normal; it is a part of life. If you have one bad day, go home, know you did your best, recharge and come back in the next day. If the same thing happens tomorrow, repeat what you did today, one or two bad days in a row can be expected. If you have 3 bad days in a row, you may want to re-evaluate what you are doing and perhaps start searching for another job, because it is rare to have 3 bad days in a row here."  Lori’s words are really quite inspiring and I plan on carrying them with me through my bad days (L.A.Broccolo, Personal Communication, February 17^th 2015).

Although there are some negatives to every job I also enjoyed hearing about how rewarding her job was to her. She talked about how she was rewarded every single day by the satisfaction of helping people both physically and emotionally. Nurses are not only thanked by their fellow coworkers but also by their patients, even a simple “thank you I couldn’t have done it without you” from a patient is a inspiration in itself. I truly can say this interview gave me confirmation that the field I am going into is the right field for me as I was inspired by my father’s battle and end of life due to cancer, I can’t wait to walk out of work each day knowing that I made a difference in the patient’s life as well as the family that fights beside them (L.A.Broccolo, Personal Communication, February 17^th 2015).