Nursing. Why is it more than just a job?

I need to do an essay on this title for my university interview for paediatric nursing. Can anyone give me some more idea's?

For some people nursing is just a job and a paycheck, but that's probably not the answer your school is looking for. You really do have to stop and think about what it is that makes you want to be a nurse and go from there. Most people go into nursing because they feel a genuine sense of satisfaction and fulfillment from helping people when they are at their most vulnerable--during a sickness when they can't do for themselves. It takes courage and stamina and strength, combined with patience and gentlenss like no other career around except maybe parenting and teaching...In parenting however, you get to TELL your children what to do. You're the boss. In nursing, you have to use gentle persuasion to try to get people to do what's in their best interest and you have to be willing to accept it if they don't, and in teaching, you get to go home after 7-8 hours, and you get evenings, weekends, holidays and summers off. In nursing you get none of that, plus you have to work 12-14 hour shifts, and at night when all "normal" people sleep...Nursing takes the strength and stamina of almost no other profession on the face of the earth. Doctors have more responsibility, but even during residency, doctors have a sleep room where they can try to get some sleep in betweeen patient needs. Nurses do not have that luxury. And yes, all through their careers, physicians have to take call at night, but they are asleep at home in their own beds while on call...nurses are not....As I write this, I realize police have similar working conditions to nurses--long shifts, sometimes at night, with exposure to deadly forces (diseases for nurses and criminals for police), but I think it's still possible for a policeman to work an 8 hour shift and go home. Not so for nurses. There are almost no 8 hour shifts. You really have to love what you do to endure it. But back to your topic: in peds, all I've said above is greatly amplified because children are so much more vulnerable than adults. Sick children are scared on top of being sick, and haven't yet developed the coping skills to handle major life setbacks like illness. Children require a lot more care, tenderness, creativity, compassion, gentleness in their care, but they also respond more honestly and genuinely when they receive it. You can see the good you do for them on their lovely little faces. That's harder to see on adults, but it's there nonetheless.

Not to be mean, but if you can't think of reasons that nursing is more than just a job perhaps nursing isn't the right career choice for you.

Most people go into nursing because it is more than just a job, more than an income source.

So don't bother searching online for answers - look into your heart and ask yourself why YOU want to pursue nursing.

Good luck to you.

if you can't think of any reasons, then this will probably be a very short essay.

A true nurse puts their heart into it. It's a very emotional and rewarding career to choose. if you want to be a nurse, you are the only one who can write this essay.