Talk About Your Profession | Steem Sri Lanka: Contest series - Week 6 | My future career as a Nursing Officer

Looking back now, currently as a 3rd year nursing undergraduate, I realized how much I have grown and learned. Actually it was an unexpected turning point of my life. Because I never had a dream of becoming a nursing officer. However I was Selected for the BSc Nursing degree at University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka in 2017. Then I started my university life as a nursing undergraduate.

At the beginning I hadn't a great passion towards nursing profession. But with the time I found that nursing is something that beyond just a profession. Because I have a great opportunity to help patients and get a spiritual satisfaction. I can remember the first day of my clinical training at Teaching Hospital Karapitiya as a student nurse with the white gown. Little by little I was felt interest about nursing career.

After completing the 1st year we stepped towards the 2nd year of degree with having capping ceremony. It means we left our white gown and qualified to wear the nursing uniform as a student nurses. That's an important event of every nurse's life.

I got many new experiences during my university life as a nursing undergraduate. Among of them my best experience is having a clinical training in psychiatry at National Institute of Mental Health, Angoda, Sri Lanka. That was also a plus point for me to be interested in nursing.

With the same time there were so many challenges during past 3 years. Because we have to deal with patients life. We can't just take it an easy. So we must keep it in our mind when working at the hospital, even we are student nurses. That's why we are given clinical training of 4 years with the professional knowledge and skills.

I know that being a nurse is not easy. Nursing is filled with challenges and hard work. Nurses have to cover lot of duties within a 6 hour of shift and night shifts also there. They are so dedicated and do a great service to the country as health care workers. I am also happy to be a part of that.

After 3 years of journey, now I have a clear picture of my future career. But I have many goals to achieve in my life as a nursing undergraduate rather than being just a nurse. I have one more year to go. My recent goal is to receive my degree by next year with a good GPA. After taking my graduation hope to do my further post graduate studies and do a great service to the country as a nursing professional.

Finally I want to tell you that if you are interested in doing nursing as a profession you must have a passion for it. Not only nursing, if you love what you are doing you don't get stress with your profession.

To conclude this I must thankful to @randulakoralage for having such a great contest. I appreciate your theme of contest and so happy to participate in this contest.