Nursing Profession

Pros: Patient care is rewarding.
Cons: Too many patients. Not enough time.

I want my daughter to be whom she chooses to be. Choosing a profession should come from your heart and head. If you choose a profession that is not going to support you financially, then it is not a good choice. I choose nursing strictly for financial...

Pros: Very good pay, especially at entry level, feeling of accomplishment
Cons: Many interpersonal conflicts. Bias against nursing.

Nurses who find their way into management may be shocked to find that many of their career expectations were unrealistic. Nursing management is viewed by other areas of health care administration and management as being a "separate" or "second class"...

Pros: Variety of settings and specialties,
Cons: Secretions, urine, feces, blood,odors,

1. Pays better than the waffle house, though the hours aren't that good.
2. Fashionable shoes and sexy white uniforms or scrubbs
3. Needles, It's better to give that to receive.
4. Reassure your patients that all bleeding stops...

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: 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: 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: broadbased opportunities; directly benefits others; recession-proof industry; perpetual educational opportunities.
Cons: renumerative constraints; proliferation of chieftans; territorialistic cannibalism; burnout; costs of remaining current.

Once upon a time, a nursing student was introduced to numerous Theoretical Constructs of Nursing Practice. The list of models seemed endless: Behavioral Systems Model, Theory of Goal Attainment, Self-Care Deficit Theory, Interpersonal Relations Model,...

Pros: Nurses are always needed,The experiences are priceless, You do make a difference
Cons: Often unappreciated, Mandatory overtime, Low pay, High liability

I've experienced many things throughout my life but nothing can compare to those in my years of nursing. I have been a nurse 6 years and I have seen my share of gore, patient abuse and goodness. These years will be etched in my memory forever. I became a...

Pros: Heartwarming, much needed, you'll always be able to work Somewhere
Cons: too many patients, too much business emphasis, too little time and money

We all know that there's a Nursing shortage. If this is so, what are the "powers that be" doing about it? I've read the other reviews, and it spans the gamut of the profession as we know it today. There are Males who feel unappreciated, by their Female...

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: IN DEMAND, Flexibility, Respect, Meaningful and Rewarding
Cons: High Standards, Takes Determination and Creativity

I am a registered nurse with a BSN. For the past three years I have worked for an independent elementary school. Upon graduation, several years ago, I spent a few years as a hospital floor nurse. It is true that nurses are notoriously under...

Pros: The ability to offer care,to teach and help patients & their families.
Cons: Working short staffed and not being able to offer all of the above.

The other day a pharmaceutical representative came
into the department to introduce a new product. We began talking and she told me how much she admired those nurses who could "stick it out in a hospital".
I asked for an explanation. She said...

Pros: you can instantly see the result of your hard work.
Cons: The demanding schedule poses a conflict for family time .

They said that America is in great need of committed nurses. I really wonder why? America has the best nursing school. America can provide quality trainings for nurses. You have all the high-tech equipments. America has all the necessary workforce....

Pros: Gratification in knowing that I made a positive difference.
Cons: seeing people feel so helpless

I decided to become a Nurse because I wanted to make a difference in the world. I wanted to understand science and medicine and be able to communicate to people what was happening to them or their loved one. So I could maybe somehow bridge a gap of...