Life of A Nurse

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I WAS CALLED INTO NURSING‼️
🌸My name is Pride Karabo Nxumalo,Growing up,my Aunt was a Nurse and she loved sharing her work stories with me.She had passion and that inspired me, I thought it must be nice to help those who are helpless, naturally I am a giver so that’s when I started developing passion for nursing.
🌸When it came to choosing subjects I remember my father asked me what I wanted to be and I said a Nurse,he did not like Nursing at all! for his own reasons,so then I thought okay I’ll do something else in the medical or accounting field.
🌸I wanted nothing that has to do with engineering! When I was in high school I used to apply for any bursary, scholarships and learnerships that have to do with medicine or accounting.
🌸Fast forward to post receiving my matric results, I had no plan as there was no response to any of the things I had applied for in university .
🌸After my dad saw my results he suggested that I do engineering since I passed physics and maths so well so because I did not want to take a gap year I said I will try it out.(Remember I said earlier i didn’t want anything to do with engineering).
🌸I was enrolled at TUT Witbank for electrical engineering, can I tell you that I was a zombie? The walking dead, because I was there physically but emotionally, spiritually and mentally I was not there, I envied my friends that I had made especially during practicals, because I longed for that passion they had, my grades were so bad, cause I couldn’t take in anything, I tried to study,listen in class, participate in every activity.
🌸I decided that I was going to dropout and register for a different course second semester, at this point I was not staying with my dad, I was now staying with my mom and I discussed with her my career frustrations and she understood my concerns.
🌸I went ahead and de-registered and went home with no plan. My dad soon learned the news , cut my allowance and disowned me as his child ( I’m 18 at that time) I accepted the consequences of my actions, I went and looked for piece jobs from selling chips, doing administrative work, housekeeping etc anything I could find really.
🌸During all this I saw the power of God, I believe I was called into nursing, I remember I didn’t have a phone so it was difficult for the school to get a hold of me, they called my mum they couldn’t get a hold of me,until they went further and called my dad who delivered the news to me that I have been selected to come for an interview to study at a Nursing School.
🌸I remember I thanked God I was so overwhelmed that finally I will get to do what I love. Some of my family members told me not to be too excited as this was just a call for interviews, I said “ I know that I’m in, the interviews are just formalities I prayed for this” and that is how I became a nurse.

Cheer up.❤️

New chapter unlocked 🥰💍🐄🐄❤️

ProfKholofelo Matlhaba book launch was a success💯🎉💃🏽🥰🔥🥂
Learn from a Nurse who has walked through the path.PROFESSOR OF HOPE

Happy international Nurses Day 🎉❤️
Continue to cause impact!

1st day at work. Serving the green bar now
Midwife ❤️🙏🙌
Already performed 3 deliveries today.
Honestly I am so scared especially because of the litigations that come with working in labour ward.
But confidence in your competency is key,always ask questions, DO NOT ASSUME.
Always ASK FOR HELP.

Officially done with community service
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cheers🥂to a prosperous future ahead

🌸This is Kwena Chokwe and she’s from Soshanguve. She is a 29 years old professional nurse working in the Emergency department.
🌸she said “the last thing I thought I would do, is be by the bedside, saving lives and caring for others, but that’s the thing about a calling, you don’t choose it, it finds you”.
🌸She found nursing during a time she took a gap year in 2016, after dropping out of university, while working in retail…
🌸She took the opportunity and ran with it, she said “it wasn’t easy and initially the motivation was to conquer poverty, but I have since found a purpose in being at the service of others”.
🌸Her advice to anyone who wants to become a nurse is:

I want to say to anyone who wants to be a nurse that: It is a hard job, but when you get home, and your feet are swollen from standing up all day…. It feels worth it. I am currently working on completing my Law degree because I have a passion for advocating for people who cannot do so for themselves, and while I chase my Legal passions, I am happy to advocate for my patients in the medical setting where I currently work.

She is absolute 🔥❤️💯🎓
This is Annah Tshifhiwa Siphuma, she’s the last born in a family of 7 siblings, she was the 1st one to go to a University🙊🎉💯🤌🏾.
📍Growing up she always wanted to be a Nurse, but all that changed when she realised that she could be a doctor instead.
📍When she matriculated in 2010, she was not accepted into medicine🥺 but got admitted into nursing at the last minute as it was her 2nd choice at Univen💃🏾💃🏾. She said”I was so clueless about nursing 🤣😩.
📍4 years down the line (2014) I got out of varsity with 2 degrees🙊🎓🤰🏽.
📍I started working as a comserve at a psychiatric institution in 2014, in 2017 I studied nursing administration with the university of pretoria.
📍2018 I had applied for PHC(UL) and OCC health (TUT) got accepted at both but I guess PHC was my love, graduated in 2019 and by then I had gone back to UP to finish my nursing education of which I finished in the same year “wishy wishy”🤣. So 2019 as I was wrapping up my Ed.ET .Adm. I realised how bored I will be the following year in 2020, so I applied for Master of Public Health at univen during covid, so because of time on my hands during lockdown I had an opportunity to do a short course (nimart) as I was studying mph from home, just graduated October 2023 for MPH( a lot happened leading to my delay ) now working for an NGO, definately considering going further with
my studies☺️

At exactly 11:10 on a Sunday of 1997/03/23 I was born.
Happy birthday to me ❤️🎉🎂🥂🥰

All the best ❤️
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Sister Kwena rocking her Life of a Nurse T-shirt

ProfKholofelo Matlhaba doing Prof things 🔥❤️💯🎓wearing LIFE OF A NURSE

‼️THINGS I WAS SCARED OF AS A NURSING STUDENT ‼️
1.corpse- I actually never got rid of this fear, I remember first day in the hospital my clinical mentor took us to the mortuary as part of orientation @ Steve Biko academic hospital 😩🥲 They showed us bodies and also how they wrap little babies Yuuuh I cried and actually thought this nursing thing won’t work.😩
2.taking bloods 🩸- I took forever to learn this skill, I would always observe but never attempted and one day I was working with an inpatient Nurse, always in a rush nje😩and she told me to take bloods and magically I did it.
3.I was scared of wounds 😩, honestly at 1st I was disgusted,disturbed and also trying to fight the feeling of feeling sorry for the patient. I took everything so personal 😩. But eventually I loved it because once you clean and dress the patient they looked so relieved❤️.

Advice: Don’t let your fears stop you. With training everything gets better, I’m not saying you become cold but you get a certain understanding of why you are doing something. And after all it benefits the patient.❤️Do it with a smile ❤️

📍This is Meluleki Zondi from KZN Underberg Mqatsheni.
📍He matriculation @ Dumabezwe High school located in Donnybrook.
📍Studied at Durban University of Technology where he did his Degree in nursing, he completed his Degree 🎓in 2019 then started his community service 2020 at Hilton clinic in Eastern Cape.
❤️because of his love for nursing he decided to apply for masters📚 the following year In UFS as well as in UKZN and he got accepted in both universities but he decided to do his Masters with UKZN.
📍He started his masters in 2021 finished 2022 graduated in may 2023 the time I was finishing my master he applied in two universities for nursing education speciality which were UFS and UJ then he decided to take UFS .
📍He then graduated🎓with UFS December 2023.

Now I’m working in maternity while I’m-waiting post for lecturer 👨‍🏫

This is Precious Matsimbi from Hammanskraal. She is the 2nd daughter in my family.
She is studying at Life Healthcare College in Pretoria East. She is doing the R169 course which is Higher Certificate in Auxiliary Nursing and hope to study Diploma in 2024.

She says:
Growing up, I've always loved nursing, main reason being the condition I have which is Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria, a chronic allergy which has no cause and no cure.

She matriculated in 2021 but took a gap year due to the lack of information I have. I thought the gateway to a good life was going to university but I was so wrong.

She says:
One of my neighbors sat me down one day and told me about her niece who is studying Diploma at Life Healthcare College and that's when I realized that you don't need a university to progress. I applied and was accepted for Higher Certificate in Auxiliary Nursing.

My journey with nursing hasn't always been roses 🌹 and sunshine ☀️ . I didn't have enough funds but because I was working hard, making sure I stayed at school, studying, borrowing books from lectures and my friends and acing my formatives. The hospital I was working at paid my fees.

I make educational videos on tik tok, giving out information about nursing so that others can get information and be the best nurses they could be. I'm also sharing my story.

Currently I'm waiting to write SANC exams in March and hoping to graduate at the end.

I strongly believe that nursing is a calling. Not just for women but for men as well. I'm willing to break the stereotypical image that nursing is for women
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The year 2017 was the worst year for me but few years later I understood that it was a process I had to grow through. God did it❤️💯🙏
In 2017 my mum had a stroke and I found myself having to take care of my 3 siblings the youngest being 1 year old. I was 20yrs taking care of a family of 6. Had to make sure school uniforms are clean and ironed, the house is clean and there’s food. Not to mention I had to close a gap that it doesn’t show that our mother was not well.
First few weeks were easy I would wake up very early bath my mum, make sure she’s clean because we had a lot of her friends coming to visit so by 7am she was already bathed and looking nice👌🏽.And I was like maybe I’m met to be a Nurse after all, I can do this!. I cared for her with so much passion .
I had just applied at sg lourens nursing college expecting to be accepted in the year 2018.
I remember my mum was a cleaner at the flats we were staying at and at her workplace they said she must find a replacement , she asked my younger brother and they said he was too young so unfortunately it had to be me. Mind you the previous year 2016 I had dropout at UJ.So now I started feeling uncomfortable, more like depressed.

I accepted my fate and I started working. First day I started by cleaning the yard, from there I picked up rubbish,pushed and cleaned dustbins continued on to mop flat by flat on their front patio.😩😩
A week in I was already depressed because after knocking off I had a little sister,mum, brothers and dad to take care of,It didn’t matter whether I was tired or not I had to do it , I remember during this process the washing machine at home broke this meant I had to hand wash the laundry.I remember I cried that day 😭😩🥹 but I did the work, when I thought it was enough the fridge broke 😂🥹now I must wait for my dad late nights to come back with meat and I cook. If he comes back at 8pm I must cook at 8pm.
I cried everyday, literally I cried every single day 😭. Crying because I must be strong for everyone, crying because the responsibility is mine, crying because I’m tired, crying because my mum is not well, crying crying crying.yoh

When I thought O God I’m enough at least I’ll go to school next year I was rejected at SG lourens nursing college, stayed another extra year at home.
I felt like my life had no direction. After matric I stayed at home a good 3 yrs and I thought my friends are so far ahead of me.
But God knew exactly what he was doing when he allowed me to go through this process. When I was finally accepted in the year 2019 I had such a strong will that whatever challenge I experienced quitting was never an option no matter how uncomfortable I was in a situation.
I owe it all to God❤️😭💯
So remember whether you passed your matric or not, accepted at university or not, 99% of the time It will work out for good, don’t be discouraged, don’t think it’s the end of the world. You try until you get the results you want ❤️we never give up!
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My name is Vusi Katlego Moreku, I am a 20 year old studying nursing at the SG Lourens Campus under GCON. I am doing my 2nd year and hope to do my 3rd year in May 2024. Before I got into nursing I wanted to be a maths teacher but somehow God directed me to nursing and now I wouldn’t swap it for anything😅❤️.

I am the first born son out of 3, I make TikTok videos🤣to make Nursing look fun and interesting because we are living in the new age and there is more to it than meets the eye.

After I finished my matric, I didn’t have a bursary 💵or anything like that and the only university that accepted me was UJ and I didn’t have funds to register and study but my Mom and her friend had applied for me to do nursing and I didn’t know, I only found out when I got a message to submit my documents at Ann Lasky and that’s when I asked my Mom and she said “Ohhh yeah I applied for you just in case your teaching things don’t go well” and from there onwards I started the process of being accepted into nursing. I don’t come from a rich family.
I was raised by a single parent who lost her job when I was doing grade 10/11 and so when the opportunity of nursing came even though I was reluctant I have to be honest but it changed my life. I am able to take care of my Mom and 2 siblings, I can buy whatever I want for myself which is something I couldn’t do before. Now at the age of 20 I have done more things that I don’t think I could’ve done if I had gotten into teaching. I don’t know why God put it into my Mom’s heart to apply for me to get into Nursing but I know that he is never failing. That is my story and Nursing has changed my life, I was stereotypical thinking it’s only for girls and that Nurses are just rude and mean but now I have been opened up to a whole new world and everyday I do what I do with a smile and patience and I am grateful to be where I am today.
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It’s been a journey ❤️

Basically I was home for 2yrs and a half until someone told me about nursing(sg Lourens nursing college)

This year Be Great! Fulfil all your goals.

Happy new year everyone 🎉🥳❤️🙏🥹
This is my year of GREATNESS
What a way to start a year , I got an Award at church for recognition of my service to the church ❤️🙏🔥
serving GOD in my youth is such a privilege.
Serving under New Life global church has shaped me to the person I am today.I am forever grateful to GOD.

We reached 1 million two hundred and ninety three thousand ,six hundred and seventy two people this year🥳🎉🥳🎉🥳🎉🙏🔥

I honestly Love what I do, I’m happy at my working place, I love my patients ❤️.

My work buddy went on leave and the past 3weeks I’ve been working alone , I found myself being able to communicate better with my patients,I would deny myself lunch sometimes just because I didn’t want to see the patients going back home and coming back the next day, taking these small sacrifices didn’t bother me at all .
Working alone forced me to face the fears I had and I can say I have improved.
Ngi happy guys❤️🙏
Thank you Lord Jesus for igniting this passion in me.

1st pic was 1st day of simulation during my first year.
2nd pic was the day I got my final year results and 🎉🎉course completed 🎉🤣
3rd pic few months into community service.
📌1 true thing is that Nursing is not easy, This course showed me flames 🔥, on top of that it had to be extended due to Covid😩.
I would literally cry while studying sometimes , there was a specific subject I didn’t like and I remember in sec year I failed that subject but fortunately I had the opportunity to supp yoh the way I studied to make sure I don’t repeat second year 😭, Thank God in the end I passed my second year and from there on things got better coz I never saw that subject again 😂🤣

❤️ always look how you want to be addressed❤️👌🎓

Celebrating graduates till I graduate ❤️❤️❤️🎉🙌