-: As a nurse, I just realized that there was more out there,
that you could make a bigger difference.
As a nurse you make a day-to-day difference,
on a small level.
You know, you have five patients on a day.
As a nurse practitioner,
you may have a hundred patients.
We may see 20 to 30 patients a day.
Depending on what you do as a practitioner,
whether it be specialty, family practice,
or primary care, you know,
you're just kind of able to help more people.
Just changing someone's life.
It could be the littlest thing from making them smile
in their worst situation, to now you see them walking
after they came in comatose.
The hardest part?
The hours can be taxing, as a nurse anyway.
It can be difficult.
For the first probably year and a half,
I used to take everything home,
you could have done something else,
or you could have done something different.
You learn to cope with that
by leaning on your other teammates, or bouncing ideas off/
If you take everything home, you won't last.
You can't help everybody.
So you just go in knowing you've done the best that you can,
you've done everything for that patient,
and kind of leave work at the door, so to speak.