Nursing Career Paper

Nursing has become a harder profession to get into. It is one of the most rewarding professions out there in the world. A patient wants to be reassured that the person taking care of them knows what they are talking about, and know what to do when the time comes. Nursing is more than just helping people get better. It is a livelihood that a registered nurse can be proud of achieving. The nursing field is bigger than most know about. There are hospital nurses, there are nursing home nurses, school nurses, etc. The possibilities are endless for a person who has an RN. For myself, I would like to become per diem; a nurse that would be all over the hospital. I would become this type of nurse because I believe in helping every floor whether it be the ACE unit or the pediatric oncology unit. I have been around per diem’s because my mom is one. She gets out more from being a per diem than she did as a floor nurse. It is the models in ones’ life that helps shape and molds you into you you’ll become. Each floor is in need of nurses because of the nursing shortage. Any help would be appreciated my most people. If I had to choose one unit, it would be with the Oncology unit seen as I have had one too many people I care for diagnosed with, and even die from cancer. One person that was killed by cancer was my father, Dr. Bakshi, MD. Seen as I had found out postmortem, I had done research on Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma to understand what he had. “Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), a malignancy that manifests in the lymphatic system, is one of the most commonly occurring hematologic disease types in the United States and other Westernized countries. NHL is divided into a range of subtypes with differing clinical features and outcomes.” (Long, 2007)He was in remission for fourteen years. Fourteen years not many patients whom are diagnosed with NHL have. It progresses and eventually will kill you. Currently there is no cure, but I would like to be part of that

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