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I’ve been working as a caregiver for about 10 years. I did some volunteer work and some
mission work with my church. I also worked with Mother Theresa actually for a week when
I was 18. I had the opportunity to go to Calcutta and I got to experience what kind of the world
of care-giving and volunteering and nursing assistant, nurse’s aid type of work was
like.I decided to go into the nursing program because I felt like it would be a program
that would prepare me to work as a registered nurse here in this country and also abroad.
I felt like this program was a program that would prepare me for the professional work
of a nurse. So,this has been the kind of program has really benefitted me. As far as the technical
knowledge, the hands-on skills and some of the training the nursing instructors here
had to offer. The hands-on person to person interaction. I liked the feeling of being
able to help and to connect with others and just to meet needs to, you know, meet goals
as a group and working together with people. It’s really a people oriented field and
I really enjoy that aspect of it. For example, to be a nurse you have to go through a semester
of O.B. training, which is, you know,pregnancy, maternity, things like that. For a male those
things don’t come intuitively. In general there’s always this mystique of caregivers
being female and some places have a harder time getting over that. I mean that depending
on where you’re working and depending on where you go as a man you might face some
stigmas. And so, sometimes you can feel a little bit different, just being a man and
just communicating with others.I suggest just opening your mind and going for it. Really
taking the challenge on. Taking challenges on because there are several challenges in
the nursing profession for a male and I feel like if you open your mind and you really
apply yourself and you really ask yourself; “What am I, what are they trying to teach
me, what am I to learn from this experience?” If you ask yourself along the way these questions
it will allow you to become a really well rounded, open-minded nurse. Because I’ve
had hands-on experience and because I have a desire and have proven a desire to care
for others in life outside the academic field.