Journey To Become A Nurse I like to help and nurture people back to health, so why not join a career which includes that? Nursing goes along well with what I’m best at, it could be the perfect career for me. Where I can enjoy helping people and taking care of them to make them feel better. If they are sick, I want to help figure out what is causing them to feel that way or what the symptoms are of the possible illnesses. I’m also a very social person and can talk to anybody, which is something needed if you want to become a nurse. But what does it take? Will the money spent going to school be reimbursed or more by the career I have chosen? Well we’re about to find out! Before you decide what career to choose for life, you …show more content…
There are many opportunities and advancements you can take advantage of from being a nurse or going to nursing school. You could become a doctor, a nurse practitioner, pediatrician, and a lot more. Some nurses may start their career off as a hospital nurse, but when they are there long enough and have experience, they can be promoted to assistant unit manager or even head nurse. For those nurses who want to go back to school to get a Master’s or a Doctorate's degree have even greater opportunities. Such as nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, or nurse anesthetist. Experts are saying that the job opportunities for nurses will nearly double the expected average rate for all occupations between the years of 2011 and 2020. This is expected because the medical industry is expanding quickly and the demand for medical personnel will be exceptionally high. Next you want to consider what nurses do on an average day at work. They go around feeding the patients, checking the patients to see how they are doing, be a friend to them and their families, etc. An average nurse’s day is consisted of recording a patient’s history and symptoms on their medical charts, discuss their patients with other nurses and doctors, change the dressings on the wounds so they don’t get infected, observe the patients to see if they are progressing in health or declining, give them their medications, and talk with their families to discuss what is happening or what is