Nursing Profession

Pros: The opportunity to make a difference in someone's life; decent pay; flexible schedules.
Cons: Short staffing; floating requirements; little respect; dealing with bodily functions.

As a Registered Nurse working in my primary field of Medical-Surgical Nursing for over 4 years now, I’ve learned many things along the way that many new graduates (including myself) have no clue about before deciding to enter the nursing...

Pros: Still today a caring profession
Cons: It has become a business, double work load.

Why are patients and families feeling they are getting less attention, and sometimes less than adequate care in a hospital setting? I wrote an article on nursing, why, when, and how I got involved a few days ago. One of my comments caused me great...

Pros: Hand holding, Watching lives being saved
Cons: Long hours, the ones you lose

As a kid I remember giving more bloody noses then I fixed. So I ponder, why did I fall in love with nursing, when and how? I remember as a child wanting to be a veterinarian, I loved animals, people I could take or leave. Yet, here I sit...

Pros: Highly Gratifying Interventions, Lower Stress Level Environment
Cons: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Is A Real Risk

I first encountered the term triage when I was taking some Red Cross training as a teen. A French term, triage initially was a means of assigning a priority to those injured and waiting to be treated. The moderately injured who get a toe tag...

Pros: Jobs Available Across The U.S. & Beyond
Cons: Managed Care Limits Direct Patient Care

This editorial will be an overview of one nursing professional's journey, spanning 25 years of various health care training. Individual articles on LVN and RN practice will follow, with the specialty fields of Mental Health and Telephone Triage Nurse...

Pros: Self-gradifying; great need for caring nurses
Cons: Work weekends, holidays and usually short staffed!

When I was a little girl I always thought that I would be a singer and marry Paul Anka! I thought I would live a glamorous life and travel around the world. Of course, being the youngest of three daughters, I ended up following my sisters into Lynchburg G ...

Pros: After about fifteen years you can make as much as a factory worker
Cons: You have to work impossible hours to do it

Don't you just hate to read something that starts off," Oh I could tell you stories? Me too. That's why I'm just going to TELL you the stories, and you let you judge for yourself. The overall plan is to tell you as much as I can of the positive...

Pros: Touching and being touched by others. Nursing is a calling, not just a job.
Cons: Very few people will ever know the good you do, or appreciate your efforts.

I have been a registered nurse since 1976, and worked in Health Care since 1971, a fact few people on site know. I am going to give you some personal history here, from the depths of my soul, so if you don't want to take the journey with me, take the...

Pros: Ultimately Fulfilling, Satisfying, Above Average Pay, Experience Opens up multiple career options (Travel Nursing, etc)
Cons: Backbreaking Work, Expect To Work Shortstaffed, Expect To Be Unappreciated By Employers

Updated 01/04/03:

This review has come under a lot of fire since I first published it. It's sole purpose is to shed light on the darker side of the Nursing Profession. The side and the details you won't hear about working as a nurse from...

Pros: Not as many as I once believed; a chance to prove your humanity
Cons: Often we lose the very thing that was most important, our humanity

This will be the last of the series! Aren't you glad? I am!

This is the wrap-up of my advice to those of you considering entering the profession of Nursing as a Registered Nurse, or wondering if you should stay. There are two other parts lost...

Pros: There is no feeling in the world like helping someone who really needs it and you see some neat stuff
Cons: Mediocre pay, work weekends, holidays, forced overtime, getting pooped or puked on

A review by of my favorite writers (SurgRN911) about the nursing profession prompted me to write my own review. You can read her original review at http://preview.epinions.com/srvc-review-5573-FD6C471-3A01B539-prod2

I am not a nurse. I...

Pros: the joy of assisting the elderly
Cons: working short, long hours with very few days off, working most holidays

Nursing in Rural Areas, As a Geriatrics Nurse

My career in nursing began 26 years ago in Eden, Texas. It is located in the center of Texas, population 1576. San Angelo Texas is the nearest city being 45 miles away one way, 90 miles round trip....

Pros: Noble Health Care Profession
Cons: Low Pay, Highly Stressful Working Conditions, & Frequently Entails Working Overtime, Days Off, And Overtime With Little Or No Advance Warning or Notice

All across America, There are shortages of Registered Nurses (RN's) and Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurses (LPN's/LVN's), and Nurse's Aides entering or remaining in this most important health care profession. Many Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Clinics, and...

Pros: Wide variety of choices in specialties and work environments, Interesting and satisfying work
Cons: Pay, Lack of Support, Physically and emotionally hard work

When I was faced with choosing a career I was not clear exactly what I wanted to do with my life. I enjoyed the sciences and helping people, and with high unemployment rates in the mid-1970's I chose to enter the nursing profession. I felt that it...

Pros: rewarding, making a difference in people's lives, flexible hours, many different career options
Cons: backbreaking, stressful, little respect

Wow.. a chance to give my opinion on nursing.. here goes.. :)

When I was in college, I thought I wanted to be a math teacher. As I got higher in the math classes, I started to hate math and realized that it wasn't what I wanted to do. I had a...