Margaret F. Munro Award

Many nursing students declare with wide eyes and emotion that they have always dreamed of being a nurse. For me, that couldn’t have been farther from the truth. When suggested to me by friends or family members, I rejected the idea of becoming a nurse, without even considering it. I have always been driven by logic, science and reason. For the better half of my teenage life, I turned away from feminine traits of intuition, caring and relationship creation. Nursing was heavy on relational aspects and not science in my younger self’s eyes. How wrong I was.

After my first year of general university science courses, I was unsatisfied. I felt missing a piece of myself; the artful, caring, relationship-driven part. Maybe my friends and family were right, maybe I would make a great nurse. After maturing and giving it some thought, I applied to the BScN program at TRU and never looked back.

I am now entering my fourth and final year of the program and couldn’t be happier. Nursing has shown me the power of caring for others. It is both an art and a science, and learning is endless. Every day that I practice I learn more about people and relationships, families and cultures, medical conditions and interventions, but also about myself. I am endlessly thankful for this profession; for the joy and passion it has ignited in me, for the ongoing opportunities for growth and learning, and of course for those it serves.