A Young Florence Nightingale
How many little girls confidently declare when three or four years old that when grown up they’ll be a princess? A ballerina? If you would have asked a young Nicole Willms what she wanted to be, she would have put down her pretend nursing kits and bandages and told you - a nurse. Currently in the nursing degree program at Anoka-Ramsey, Nicole juggles the full life of employee at a cardiology office, student, and mother to a 2 and a 1/2 and 7 year old. Inspired by her own mother, a nurse for over 30 years and who served overseas in the Navy, Willms knows that all the “slaving over readings or studying for an exam” will benefit her family in the future. The benefit of future patients also drives Willms: “I see how [my mother] was with her patients and how much they respected her and I knew this is something I needed to be. I wanted to be that person that could help prolong a person’s life.”
The caring profession continues. Willms bought her own daughter a nursing kit for Christmas last year, and now there seems to be in-house practitioner competition. “She takes care of mommy, daddy, and brother along with the puppy and all her stuffed animals.”
When Willms isn’t studying, working, or mommy-ing, she would prefer a night in, getting “to relax and not having to worry,” or she would be playing on one of her three softball teams.
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Good job!! I loved reading this story!! the lead was great!! U covered all the bases!!!
ReplyDeleteI really liked your story and how it was like a cycle...the grandmother, mother, and daughter all liking nursing. I also liked your word "mommy-ing"!
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