1. Nurses use their skills to heal the sick.

Nurses’ hands administer treatments to patients who can no longer manage their own care. It’s nurses who provide a healing touch when people are weak and ill.

2. Nurses hold the hands of our loved ones when we cannot.

Sometimes family members are unable to be by the side of a sick loved one. In these cases, nurses provide care while family members are away. For example, when a child is in an accident, a nurse is watching over the injured child while parents rush to the hospital. When an elderly woman is dying and her family cannot be there with her, nurses feed and comfort her until she dies.

3. Nurses are there when life enters the world.

During childbirth, nurses are there to help the mother and her baby. Nurses give medication to relieve pain and provide coaching to the woman through labor. It is a nurse who first cleans and comforts a newborn baby upon its arrival in this world. Often, a nurse is the first person to touch a baby, even before its own parents do.

4. Clinicians do things other people don’t want to do or are not capable of doing.

When it comes to bathing or providing personal care, it’s necessary to treat the person with dignity and respect, despite the intimacy of the needed care. In some cases, a parent or grandparent may find it difficult for their grown child or grandchild to be their caregiver because of this intimacy, or the child may feel uncomfortable caring for their aging parent because of their relation to them. This is when nurses can make a huge difference to ensure that these intimate needs are met while making sure that both the patient and their children or family stay comfortable.

5. Nurses save lives.

Simply put, nurses save people.

While this is the last reason mentioned, it’s certainly not the least important reason that nurses are so inspirational. They save lives, and that’s a big deal. They run codes and administer life-saving medications; they perform chest compression’s and give oxygen to patients who have trouble breathing. Nurses are saving lives every day in multiple ways, and you never know when one of those lives could be a loved one or even your own. We’re inspired by nurses, we appreciate their services, and we give them the utmost respect and appreciation.