My name is Lovepreet Kaur and I’m a registered nurse in India.  I don’t think I will ever get sick of saying that.  It gives me immense pride and joy to be able to call myself an RN. I found my home in nursing, from my very first class in university, I knew without a doubt I had found my calling.

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I graduated from the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Faridkot, India in 2018. I was lucky enough to have lecturers and tutors who challenged me to go further than just the syllabus and showed me just how far nursing could take me.

 

I have too many passions to list or go into detail here, so I’ll just mention the top contenders.  I believe we need to continue to work to have nursing recognized as a true profession, and further grow the respect and admiration of our colleagues who went before us have earned.  Let’s stop the idea that nursing is a ‘back-up’ or ‘safety net’ career and start working on making sure those given the privilege to be nurses, have both the passion and the intellect to do this complicated job.

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I think we need more education for nurses on the impact they have on the reputation of our profession.  All nurses, regardless of their position, can have both a positive and negative impact on the public perception of nursing, and we need to do more to showcase those amazing nurses we all work with every day.

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I believe our students and early career nurses need more support, if for no other reason than these are the nurses who will be looking after us one day.  We need to stop the exodus of competent, caring nurses by getting rid of our ‘eat our young’ reputation and instead of growing a supportive and nurturing culture.

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I would love to see our profession identifying and encouraging nurse leaders and giving them the training and skills needed to succeed.  Too many nurses have put into management and leadership positions without adequate support or education.  We need to stop setting our colleagues up to fail when given the right support, these nurses could become the amazing leaders we all want to work with.

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Well, I think that gives you a pretty good idea of who I am and where my posts come from.  I’d love for you to comment and let me know who you are.  I hope you will join in, share and comment on my posts and we can get some conversations started. Who knows where they might lead?