I am so tired of hearing people bashing and complaining about the nursing staff when they are visiting or admitted into the hospital. I wish people understand the amount of stuff they deal with in a day, especially disrespectful patients that throw a temper tantrums because the doctors ordered for them to be on a diet while during their stay and they can't have the McDonald's their family brought them.

My mother is a nurse and I vividly remember her going to Penn State University to receive her RN degree. Not everyone gets into nursing school, not everyone passes their NCLEX, not everyone has the motivation or drive to complete it.

But she did.

Not everyone is cut out to be a nurse, because it is HARD work. But she was. In 2010 she graduated. I was so proud of her and so blessed that my mom was the type of woman to strive for what she wants and to take it upon herself and do it. My mother, along with her coworkers, are some of the most respected, hardworking individuals I have ever met. I wish, wish, I had the work ethic and ability to do what they do every day. She comes home at night exhausted because of the amount of paperwork, prescriptions, patients, codes, and everything else in between that occurs in her day.

My mom's job is heart-wrenching. She has worked in several different departments and loved them all. I remember her coming home in tears because of family members losing their loved ones, because she helped deliver her first baby, or because she was just emotionally exhausted; but, if you ask her, she will tell you she wouldn't change it for anything.

If you think that nursing doesn't require that much work then next time you go to the hospital and no nurse helps you, you can take your own blood pressure, take your own heart rate, put an IV in yourself, and report everything to the doctor. Then you can do the discharge papers that take longer than you assume and figure out the dosage of medicine you need while your at it.

My mom had books upon books and vocab words upon vocab words that she had to MEMORIZE and to keep stored in her memory for the rest of her career, even if she doesn't use it on a daily basis but in case that one occasion occurs, she does.

I could bash on any career that I wanted to, but I'm not. Because every career is a career. Whether it be being a talk show host, a nurse, a blogger, a scientist, a contractor, a mechanic, etc.. Every career has its purpose. I don't question why they wear things they wear or why they do the certain things they do because I know they have it on or do it for a reason. I respect that they are in that field because they are needed and that that job exists for a reason.

That is their income, their way of supporting themselves and their family. The reason I am writing this is because you need to respect other people's professions or nobody will respect yours.