Listen to Your Heart

Don't Listen to People who Ridicule A Choice You Make. 

Today, one of my supervisors told that I am good since I am only pushing an ultrasound machine. Upon going, another supervisor told me and my colleagues in the echo lab who are also nurses that our choice to transfer to another department from nursing is a lazy thing, we are registered nurses and so we should practice what we took an oath to. Coming home, I came into conclusion that, most of the people in the nursing office are thinking that we are lazy since we don't want to practice our profession. It's disheartening to hear from other people that you are lazy when you broken your back, legs and skull the whole day trying to figure out what's inside the patients heart. I didn't had enough time to argue and defend the choice I made. The thoughts of Jacqueline Schiff popped in my and I had peace. Why listen to those who have proven no name neither reputation in a royal skill of decision making.

Why echo?
I left my career in echo to practice my profession as a nurse because of the people who used to tell what my supervisors told me today. Being an emergency room nurse for almost three years gave me a lot of lesson in life which I am grateful of. But not all experiences are good and worth coming back. I love ER and nursing but there are things in it that didn't make me happy. Some supervisors don't have leadership skills and are bad in decision making, they always put their staff on the line who sometimes are more talented, knowledgeable and decisive that them who is in the position. They make use of the staffs' talent and take credits for themselves. What a shame. Doctors are dependent with the nurses even with encoding, assessment, history taking and diagnosis. I will become a nurse for my patient, for their family, for my colleagues who love and respect me and for the profession that I took an oath to. But not for those supervisors and doctors who are too shabby. In echo, I gain respect from the cardiologist, so why beg respect from the nurses who spent years in nursing with no advancement? I know where I stand, and I stand with my decisions. I cannot promise that I will not come back in nursing but I promise to be happy and let shallow those nurses envy me or hat me for whatever they like to think of me shouldn't matter.