What are you?

 Gained a year of experience working as a staff nurse in a complex setting (operating room, delivery room, and neonatal intensive care unit) of a secondary hospital. There are still a lot of room for learning and improvement. 

As a neophyte in the profession, I can't help myself but contemplate the question raised in the last episode of Nurse Jackie: "If i'm not a nurse, then what am I?"

During the latter year in my undergrad I have been encountering this numerous times: "Practicing nursing is not a right, rather it is a privileged".  And yet, I can't formulate a better answer for myself to answer the question raised by Nurse Jackie. I can't even picture out myself doing other things aside from being a nurse. 

In that span of year a lot of things happened (a) I enrolled in graduate school, (b) I obtained my basic life support, advance cardiac life support, and neonatal resuscitation program licenses, (c) I have been certified HIV counselor, (d) I have been part in raising awareness on breastfeeding, and HIV/AIDS. Not discounting the various cases I have encountered.

I have develop a love and hate relationship with nursing. The idealism versus the reality and practicality of practicing the profession. But despite all of that I am still blessed and thankful that I have been able to practice this art and science.