 With such negativity around nursing and all of the press and you hear about qualified nurses leaving the profession I wanted to gather some of my favorite people to make a completely positive amazing video The just shows actually why do we stay? Why are we in this still with all the negativity and everything? Why do we know? I love the excitement I've not known what every day will bring. You wake up one morning You don't know what you're gonna get, what patients you're gonna meet and I love the ups and the downs The connection that you make with people, get to know the story, especially in community, can really build up a rapport with patients Get to know them and their families and you're going into their home So we have to have a good relationship I love that you just never stop learning every single day as a learning curve I'm excited for the Respect of all the post-grad options that you can have the opportunities that arises for you once you graduate It's just unreal and the feeling that you get at the end of the day when you know that you've given a good care That is what makes me nurse Hello, my name is Charlotte Hall and I chose to be a nurse because I feel like it's the most humbling profession in the world I feel like it's an absolute privilege to be a nurse. It's something I don't take lightly at all It's an absolute honor to be able to be there at the best and worst times of somebody's life and that instant connection and that instant Trust that you have between a patient and a nurse is just incredible And I feel like it really restores my faith in humanity my faith in community and the nursing community As a whole I find as a second family. I feel like I Trust in my colleagues. I trust in my peers. I look up. I'm inspired by people. I work with them inspired By people around me day to day and so to have that as a job It's more than a job. I don't go to work. Just to work. I go to work to nurse. Why do I nurse? I nurse because I've been on the receiving end of amazing nursing care myself Well, I think back to a year ago. I was really unwell in hospital and during my stay It was the nurses who made a really big impact on me So much so that I chose to change career and become a nurse And I think how they made me feel as a patient really inspires me to want to do everything I can for patients in my care in future and to give them the best experience that they can have Hello, my name is Nikki Abel and I'm a multiple sclerosis specialist nurse. Why do I like nursing? I like nursing because I love my patients I've been really privileged that I've been an MS nurse for more than 20 years And so I've spent 20 years with some of my patients and I know them really really well And I think as nurses we can make such a big difference to patient care We can look at them Symptomatically and we can enable people to live better with a long-term condition like MS We can talk to patients about what's on offer in connection with symptoms And then they can make choices about which of the strategies they they want to take on board We can make a real big difference to people's fear and anxiety Because some people are really frightened of living long-term with a condition that can make them disabled And we can make a real big difference to them as nurses because we sit and listen We don't always have to come up with strategies to help, but we can sit and listen and that makes a difference And I'm also really lucky that I'm not only a specialist nurse and I'm a lecturer in a university And I'm able to lecture student nurses, which is fantastic Because student nurses are hungry for knowledge, they're hungry to know more And they really seem to appreciate the fact that I've got some long-term experience as a nurse And it's really wonderful to be able to discuss Perhaps anatomy and physiology and start to see these student nurses begin to make sense of what we're talking about And let's face it if we can make student nurses really well educated It's going to make patient care all the better Hello there, my name is Jake, I'm a student nurse at the University of Southampton I'm in my final year and most of my final placement at the moment I just wanted to tell you why I'm such a big fan of nursing and why I've got such a love for it And it really boils down to two things, I've got a love for people and a love for problem solving And as a nurse you're in a unique situation where you actually have to be balancing both of these at the same time Coupled with the fact that you're working with people in some of the most vulnerable moments in their entire lives And also working with their families It's truly an honorable position to be able to wake up every day, go to work and truly spend every moment every day Commit to helping people get out of hospital in a healthy state and also making sure that when they do go home That they're not going to be coming back Of the facts about nursing that I really love is just the wide range of physiological things you're going to see The body really is poetry, emotion and it's one of the things that really draws into nursing So I hope that's interesting, so yeah, men in nursing! I nurse because I want to make a difference to somebody else's life I genuinely genuinely love helping other people and I've been like that since probably since I was born I grew up just always wanting to help people and that's the one thing that truly honestly makes me happy in life I feel better if I'm making somebody else's life better and that's one of the reasons why I do what I do And I just, I'm not good at anything else, yeah okay I'm creative and I like to write poems sometimes I like to do it all, I like to do all these other things but you know what I'm really good at is nursing It's all I want to do, it's where I see my whole entire career ahead of me And I just, I wouldn't be anywhere else because sometimes you know you could be having the worst day ever Everything's going wrong and there's just that one patient at the end of the day who just holds your hand They look at you and they smile and they say thank you for absolutely everything that you've done for them And it just, it melts your heart and you just know that you've done an amazing job And that's why I do this, I do this for the patients, I see what a difference I make to my patients and the colleagues around me But what really stands out for me is that feeling you get inside your soul and your heart When you've given someone that amount of care And they're just so grateful that you're the person that's come to them and provided them with that care The compassion and the commitment and there's just no other feeling in the world, it's so rewarding It's the most loveliest feeling and this is why I do it, I don't do it for anything else I don't do it for the money, I don't do it for the thanks or the praise I do this because it makes me feel good, not only am I making my patients feel good My colleagues feel good because I try and be positive around them and motivate them and encourage them I do this because I love it, I don't want to be anywhere else other than nursing