Comforting and Restoring Lives
By: Autumn D Brown
All my life I wanted to be a veterinarian until about three years ago. I decided to change my
career goal to become a nurse. Don’t get me wrong I love animals, but I am also a people
person and thought that my skills would be better placed in the nursing field. So my
sophomore year of high school I decided to make my career in the nursing field. My junior year
I was able to attend the Mid- America Technology Center at Wayne, Oklahoma. I enrolled into
the nursing program there to start my career. I completed my first year, but unfortunately I was
not able to attend my second year due to some mistakes that were made on my transcript at
my current high school. It was then I started doing some research into the different nursing
careers that you can branch off into and the one I thought I wanted to make into my career.
The first field in my career choice was hospice nurse. While in MATC we had clinical and we
would go to different nursing homes, and this is when I thought that maybe hospice is where I
belonged. As time went along and by the end of my first year I started to have my doubts as to
if hospice was the right career choice for me. I have a lot of respect for the nurses that made
hospice their career choice. I wanted to step into that field to make a difference before
someone left this world. I didn’t want someone to pass alone. This was the hardest thing for me
to overcome, I know that people pass away on a daily basis, but I didn’t want them leaving this
world feeling alone, or being alone. I pondered on this for weeks and even months and did
some research and decided that I could comfort a patient before they passed, but I would not
be able to act upon this part of the nursing field and instead I decided on a pediatric nurse for
my career. I wanted to be able to help in bringing life into this world. I want to help a child be
born and help them grow in this world. I then asked myself, “Where would my skills as a
pediatric nurse come to help the most?” With that question came the answer “I want to be
able to give back to my heritage and to my community.”
The first field in my career choice was hospice nurse. While in MATC we had clinical and we
would go to different nursing homes, and this is when I thought that maybe hospice is where I
belonged. As time went along and by the end of my first year I started to have my doubts as to
if hospice was the right career choice for me. I have a lot of respect for the nurses that made
hospice their career choice. I wanted to step into that field to make a difference before
someone left this world. I didn’t want someone to pass alone. This was the hardest thing for me
to overcome, I know that people pass away on a daily basis, but I didn’t want them leaving this
world feeling alone, or being alone. I pondered on this for weeks and even months and did
some research and decided that I could comfort a patient before they passed, but I would not
be able to act upon this part of the nursing field and instead I decided on a pediatric nurse for
my career. I wanted to be able to help in bringing life into this world. I want to help a child be
born and help them grow in this world. I then asked myself, “Where would my skills as a
pediatric nurse come to help the most?” With that question came the answer “I want to be
able to give back to my heritage and to my community.”