What Brought You to Nursing?

About eight years ago, I got breast cancer, and then I was still working as a lawyer in tort law and medical malpractice. I was in an organized workplace with good conditions and salary, but it was my meeting with the nursing staff that changed my life (literally).

During the treatments, I knew I would make a change. I did not know yet what it would be but I knew something had to change.

In an outpatient hospitalization ward, I met a nurse who in retrospect was the one who inspired me and from that moment I realized that I had to be a nurse.

About the Study Period

Within a month, I resigned from my job and enrolled in nursing studies. I did not know what I was going for but I was determined and for me the sky is not the limit. Push the sky away.

Those were three years of very intense studies, with many challenges, experiences, and concerns. I knew that no matter how difficult or tiring or emotionally charged the process will be, I would be a nurse in the operating room.

Choosing this place was not a mere choice, there at this point, where the patient, without the accompaniment of his family, is alone among "strangers". After being on the operating bed as a patient, I wanted to be on the other side, the one who holds their hand before surgical procedure, the one who smiles at them when they wake up from surgery,

Where are You Today?

After graduating, I started working as a general operating room nurse.

There I grew, developed, and progressed, today after three and half years I am in charge of the EEG field and a clinical instructor in an operating room.

I get to hold the hands of my patients and guide new nurses with a clear goal in front of my eyes: always remember what it is like to be on the other side.

I am proud to say there is no other place I would rather be. I chose correctly.