Nursing is a job considered to be in demand all over the world. As long as people need health care, there is a need for nurses. Any hospital or healthcare institution is impossible to function without employing a nurse. Nursing, furthermore, has its benefits both financially and emotionally. Despite of these, as with any other jobs, nursing is also not for everybody. A nurse, most of the time deal with the dirty stuff, stressful environment together with emotional and physical difficulties. So? Why do you think you should still pursue nursing? Here are my top relevant reasons:
1. Love for Science
In every student in every class their is always that
diversity wherein one kid is good in math, the other in science, literature,
etc. And their you have the point.
Nursing, in its roots, is deeply engraved in science. Your biology classes,
anatomy and physiology, even your simple science subjects in high school and
elementary like concepts of radiation, conduction and convection will come
into play with nursing. Furthermore, when you love science, it is easier for you to deal with blood, body secretions, holding body organs and stuff like that. You will have that interest and curiosity instead of disgust. So, if your that kid who’s cup of tea is science, I’d
say you should consider nursing.
2. Diversity of Work
What makes this course different from your typical college
course is that it will set you to different fields that you can imagine. Name
it, nursing has it. For example, if you want bedside nursing experience you
could go into hospital nursing. In the hospital you can further go to a certain
specialties like emergency nursing, intensive care, maternal and child,
pediatrics, and operating room nursing to name a few. If you are the teacher
type, you could be a clinical instructor and teach. Nursing administration is
also a good path wherein you can manage a nursing service in a hospital or be a
dean of a nursing school. Apart from that, there are also opportunities in
various emerging fields like Forensic Nursing and Nursing Informatics. As I
have said, nursing is very diversified, you can always Google a specific
specialty or work and most of the time, that work needs a nurse.
3. A Lifelong Challenge
Life as a nurse is unpredictable. Nursing provides so many
surprises and challenges in your career. For example, if you are an Emergency
Room nurse, you will never guess what type of patient will come in. Will it be
a trauma patient, a mother who is about to give birth, an elderly who is
gasping for air to breathe, a simple patient with coughs and colds or just a
teenager who is hyperventilating because of a broken relationship. All that I’m
saying is, if you are up for those unpredictable moments then, again, nursing
might be your best pick.
4. Career Growth
Promotions at work is always present in this field. With enough skills and experience, you could
always have that fulfillment of achievement and progress in your career. From a
hospital setting, one can be a typical staff nurse at first and climb up to the
ladder and be a nursing director of a hospital. With continuous education, a
nurse will also have expanded roles. Take for example, enrolling for a master’s
or doctorate program that will make you a clinical nurse specialist, a nurse
practitioner or a nurse anesthetist.
5. Opportunity for travel
Well, travelling overseas
is one of benefits of being a nurse. One can go to places where there is good
demand for nurses. As I've said in the beginning, every hospital needs a nurse and every state or country needs a hospital, so I'm sure you already got my point there. Likewise, in the US, they have many private agencies designed for travel nursing
wherein a nurse can go hospital hopping and enjoy better pay plus having that
bonus factor of travelling and seeing different places, that is most of the time FREE.
6. Financial benefits
Yes, there are good perks of being a nurse, and financial
stability is one of that. Nursing has a big
opportunity in terms of money. In the US for example, a nurse can
approximately earn an average of $5,000+ a month. That amount goes way higher if you depending on your experience and educational attainment, for example an RN on average, earns more than an LPN. They can also enjoy higher
pays in terms of their the time they work. Night shift works have night differential pays. And lastly, their specially or field of practice is a major contributor to higher earnings. For instance, typical
nurse anesthetist can enjoy up to $150,000+ annually. That my friend, is a
lot of bucks.
7. Emotional Rewards and A Concern for Others
I made this that last in my list because this one, I think,
is the most important of all. Never ever take up nursing just because of the
money. Yes, nursing brings big bucks but the true essence of nursing is helping
others. Caring must be in your heart. It is a calling to help and change the
world, a patient at a time. The emotional rewards in nursing are far best than
the financial ones. I had this patient before when I was still a student nurse
wherein I had done some basic nursing care for. In the end of our clinical
rotation, I said goodbye to him ‘cause we’ll be entering another rotation. With
little of his strength left, he tried to reach out to me, uttering words that I
cannot understand. His wife interpreted those words for me and she said that
her husband is saying “Thank You” to me. That moment, I felt very appreciated
and had known from that time that nursing is indeed the career where I belong.
I hope this simple things will help you decide whether to
pursue nursing or not. For those who have already made up their mind on taking
up nursing, all that I can say to you is:
WELCOME TO THE AMAZING WORLD OF
NURSING, BE PROUD TO BE A NURSE!
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