And so it began...

When I started out on my journey of becoming a nurse I quickly realized I needed to define my theory. I already knew I wanted to be a nurse. It was like a calling. But I needed to define what I wanted to offer as a nurse.

I realized then being a nurse wasn't really about me. It was about service, to someone else. One of my favorite quotes I have heard attributes to Mother Theresa, "I did everything my love could do." Everything my love could do... was I then trying to define love? I didn't think so. But I was definitely trying to define health. Because that is what I want for the people I care for, health.

"What was health?" I asked myself. "How do we define it? How do we create it?" And most importantly... "How do we give health to another, when so much of health depends on the individual???" Mental state, physical state, outlook on life, practice of living, all these things do indeed attribute to our quality of health, and none of them do I as a nurse REALLY have control over.

So what did I have to give? to create health in a person. What did I have control over? What was me that would make me a good nurse. And so it began... the process of defining me, as a nurse. So when people left my care, they were better off for having met me.