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Nasirat Ayinla’s Details (Student ID: 420)
Submitted on: December 24, 2025 at 3:15 pm
1ST TERM
| English | 70 |
|---|---|
| Mathematics | 64 |
| Biology | 86 |
| Chemistry | 68 |
| Physics | 64 |
| Total | 352 |
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Final Average:
70.6
Essay
Nursing stands as one of the most essential and profoundly human professions in modern society. Far more than a job, it is a calling that uniquely combines scientific knowledge, technical skill, and deep emotional intelligence. At its core, nursing is the art and science of caring for individuals, families, and communities at their most vulnerable moments.
What distinguishes nursing as a true profession is the breadth and depth of responsibility nurses carry. Today’s registered nurses are highly educated clinicians who perform complex assessments, manage sophisticated technology, administer life-saving medications, coordinate care across multiple specialties, and serve as the constant presence at the bedside. They interpret subtle changes in patient condition, often detecting deterioration hours before it becomes obvious to others. This clinical expertise, built through rigorous university education and continuous professional development, places nursing firmly among the learned professions.
Yet what truly sets nursing apart is not only what nurses *do*, but how they do it. The profession demands an extraordinary capacity for **empathy** — the ability to enter into another person’s experience of suffering without losing oneself in the process. Nurses witness people at their most frightened, most undignified, most broken — and respond not with detachment, but with steady, respectful presence. They hold hands during final breaths, celebrate tiny victories after long struggles, explain frightening diagnoses in language that can be understood, and preserve dignity when illness tries to strip it away.
Nursing also requires remarkable **moral courage**. Nurses frequently find themselves as the patient’s strongest advocate in systems that can be impersonal, under-resourced, or even unsafe. They challenge orders that seem incorrect, protect vulnerable patients from neglect or abuse, speak up about unsafe staffing levels, and sometimes must support patients and families in making agonizing decisions. This advocacy role requires both knowledge and inner strength that is the willingness to risk conflict for the sake of patient well-being.
The profession continues to evolve rapidly. Nurses now lead hospitals, conduct groundbreaking research, develop health policy, provide primary care as nurse practitioners, and respond to global health crises. Yet regardless of role or setting, the fundamental essence remains unchanged: the commitment to alleviate suffering and promote health, dignity, and hope.
In an era of increasing technological sophistication in healthcare, nursing reminds us that healing is not only a scientific process but also a profoundly human one. The profession stands as living proof that expertise and compassion are not opposing forces; they are, in fact, most powerful when they work in harmony.
Nursing is, and will likely always remain, one of the most trusted, needed, and deeply meaningful professions in existence. It asks much of those who practice it, but it returns something rare: the daily opportunity to make a tangible, positive difference in human lives precisely when that difference matters most.
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