Someone asked why I chose the path I chose. Why I chose nursing or why I decided to be a nurse practitioner...Im not sure I ever saw the clear path, that was made, as well as I did when I responded tonight. This is what i said: Well, I originally wanted to be a plastic surgeon. I really liked science and I liked helping people and even art if you can see the connection...then I needed a bachelors in something fairly science based for pre med, so I decided to be a nurse and take a science class or two extra after, so I could go to med school...I then got halfway through nursing school and I was depressed (for unknown reason) for about a month. I could hardly concentrate and I wasnt doing as well in school...that is when I decided I could not do school for that much longer and I decided I would instead get my masters in nursing and become a nurse practitioner and I would go back if I ever desired, in the future. I loved nursing after I graduated and while I was going through the first few semesters of the masters program I asked myself why I was doing that if I loved my job so much, but I kept going anyway. I got to the clinical portion of NP school and I looooooved it, even more than nursing and so I decided I had made the right decision. I am now wanting to serve the underprivileged so I will not probably make all that much once I get to there. That has always been my calling, though, I have always had a heart for the homeless and the less fortunate, so I think that God was showing me my way the entire time without me even knowing he was. I know that my sister (Shamara Millard Parre) played a roll in me becoming a nurse and many other people have greatly influenced me in my life to become who I am today (especially you mom and dad [ Vicky Gross Millard & Steve Millard]), but I think this was God showing me where I was needed and best equipped. I am so thankful to have a God that cares enough to push me in the right direction even when I myself have no idea what that direction is.
Posted on: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 04:44:54 +0000