A nurse is a healthcare professional that along with other health care professionals is responsible for treatment, safety, and recovery of acutely or chronically ill persons, communities and society. A person can get into the career of nursing for following reasons.

  1. To have a better career option: Dissatisfaction, with a lower salary is the norm in current environment and with most of the career and job practices. But in profession of nursing it is the pinch that is felt by nurses in higher proportion and ratio. In the initial stage of career despite working for 8 hours a day and 5 days a week they gets very low salary on the name of attaining experience and completing training. Though the salary package for a Nurse in start you would found to be very low and less but still there are many reasons for career aspirants to join Nursing as a career option.
  2. To have a raise in salary:  Despite being initial low salary, the salary of a nursing assistant increases proportionally with increasing job experience and skill. The more a nurse would work the more salary it would get. After becoming a full fledged licensed nurse a person gets an average salary of $43,000 annum.  Salary is only a side of the picture after an established career there is involved appreciation in form of extras and bonuses which you receive in form of living accommodations, free meals, health insurance and day care centers for mothers.
  3. For Social Service:  That is only a financial side of the nursing career on the other side nursing is a called to be as a very noble profession. It provides extreme level of responsibility and contentment that comes to a person with a feeling of being capable of saving other’s life. Many a times a simple thank you great satisfaction that is incomparable with any sort of monetary gains. So it is very correct for you to opt it as career for many other reasons after becoming a nurse it would definitely improve critical thinking skills, decision skills, team work and team building skills, creativity, communication skills, educational preparation, hand over technical skills and procedures and Humanity.
  4. To work in varied areas of nursing: One can start his or her career in nursing by many way and ideas.  One can make entry into career levels like Nursing Assistant, Licensed Practical Nurse, and Registered Nurse and for salary level geographic location, previous work experience, educational credentials, and shift and work schedules. And a nurse can work in a number of practices and practical areas. They can work into varying areas and fields as for the purpose of nursing career like in Hospital health care, home care, long term care, occupational health, pubic health and others.  There are also options for financing the education in nursing as a person can avail options like financial scholarships, resources and programs as available to be paid for the education.
  5. Finally to take care: Though the job of nursing is bit common with certain differences as a Nursing Assistant helps with basic health care activities like bathing, dressing, feeding patients, serving meals and walking, while Licensed Practical Nurse involves into direct and indirect nursing care, health maintenance, teaching, counseling, collaborative planning. Finally registered nurses develop, implement, evaluate and plan for individuals, families and communities including the coordination and management of resources to carry out health care.