If I had a dollar everytime this question is asked, I'd be... :)
Whenever this question is asked you will get all the idealistic reasons: change the world, I want to make a difference, a calling, the greatest profession in the world… although these reasons would make a nursing instructor proud, but the real reason we pick nursing as a profession is as unique as each individual and 99.99% of the time it deals with $$$ MONEY. And why should nursing be any different than any other profession, (i.e. law, medicine, real estate).
Our primary concerns are always love of: self, family, community, profession, always nearly in that order. The truth is if nursing did not allow us to meet our most basic needs we would not be nurses or aspire to be one.
I may be biased, but nursing is the only profession that allows you have your cake and eat it too. Whether you are intellectually, physically, materially, or spiritual inclined, nursing allows you to meet your goals and still be able to pay the bills and build wealth.
StabilityAccording to the department of labor employment for nurses is expected to grow by 23% by 2016. Putting it simply, as long as there is the probability of people getting sick and growing older there is a need for nurses.
SatisfactionWhat ever dreams, goals, interest, needs nursing is a rewarding discipline.
Upward Mobility
With the average nurse earning close to $60,000/year the propensity to build wealth is just tremendous.
FlexibilityMost professions don’t allow you the liberty to pick where, when, who you work with or what you do. The wonderful opportunity nursing affords is if you have an interest there is probably a field in nursing that covers
Here are a few niches and specialty that might be of interest:
· ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING
· AMBULATORY CARE NURSING
· BUSINESS IN NURSING
· CAMP NURSING
· CARDIAC CARE NURSING
· CARDIAC CATH LAB NURSING
· CASE MANAGEMENT NURSING
· CERTIFIED REGISTERED NURSE ANESTHESIA
· CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST
· COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
· COMPLEMENTARY HEALTH NURSING
· CORRECTIONAL FACILITY NURSING
· CRITICAL CARE NURSING
· DERMATOLOGY NURSING
· DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY NURSING
· DIABETES NURSING
· DOMESTIC VIOLENCE NURSING
· EMERGENCY NURSING
· ETHICS IN NURSING
· FAMILY NURSE PRACTITIONER
· FLIGHT/TRANSPORT NURSING
· FORENSIC NURSING
· GASTROENTEROLOGY NURSING
· GENETICS NURSING
· GERIATRIC/GERONTOLOGICAL NURSING
· GERONTOLOGICAL NURSE PRACTITIONER
· GYNECOLOGY/OBSTETRIC NURSING
· HEALTH POLICY NURSING
· HEMATOLOGY NURSING
· HIV/AIDS NURSING
· HOLISTIC NURSING
· HOME HEALTH CARE NURSING
· HOSPICE/PALLIATIVE NURSING
· INDEPENDENT NURSE CONTRACTING
· INFECTION CONTROL NURSING
· INFORMATICS NURSING
· INFUSION NURSING
· LABOR & DELIVERY NURSING
· LACTATION CONSULTATION
· LEGAL NURSE CONSULTING
· LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSING (LPN)
· LONG-TERM CARE NURSING
· MANAGED CARE NURSING
· MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING
· MILITARY AND UNIFORMED SERVICE NURSING
· MISSIONARY NURSING
· NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE NURSING
· NEPHROLOGY NURSING
· NEUROSCIENCE NURSING
· NURSE ATTORNEY
· NURSE EDUCATOR
· NURSE LEGISLATOR
· NURSE MIDWIFERY
· NURSE PRACTITIONER
· NURSE RESEARCHER
· NURSING ADVOCACY
· NURSING ENTREPRENEUR
· NURSING EXECUTIVE
· NURSING CEO
· NURSING MANAGER
· NURSING ADMINISTRATION
· NURSING QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
· NURSING WRITER, AUTHOR, OR HISTORIAN
· OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING
· ONCOLOGY NURSING (CANCER NURSING)
· OPERATING ROOM NURSING (PERIOPERATIVE NURSING)
· OPHTHALMIC NURSING
· ORTHOPAEDIC NURSING
· OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY NURSING (HEAD AND NECK NURSING)
· OVERSEAS, DEVELOPMENT, VOLUNTEER, MISSIONARY OR REFUGEE NURSING
· PAIN MANAGEMENT NURSING
· PARISH NURSING
· PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY NURSING
· PEDIATRIC NURSE PRACTITIONER
· PEDIATRIC NURSING
· PERIANESTHESIA NURSING (RECOVERY ROOM NURSING)
· PERINATAL NURSING
· PLASTIC SURGERY NURSING
· POISON INFORMATION SPECIALIST
· PSYCHIATRIC NURSE PRACTITIONER
· PSYCHIATRIC NURSING
· PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING
· PULMONARY CARE NURSING (RESPIRATORY NURSING)
· RADIOLOGY NURSING
· REHABILITATION NURSING
· REPRODUCTIVE NURSING
· RHEUMATOLOGY NURING
· SCHOOL NURSING
· SCHOOL NURSING
· SUB-ACUTE NURSING
· SUBSTANCE ABUSE NURSING
· SUPPLEMENTAL/AGENCY NURSING
· SURGICAL NURSING
· TELEMETRY NURSING
· TELEPHONE TRIAGE NURSING
· TOXICOLOGY NURSING
· TRANSCULTURAL NURSING
· TRANSPLANT NURSING
· TRAUMA NURSING
· TRAVEL NURSING
· UROLOGIC NURSING
· WOUND & OSTOMY NURSING
