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It seems like EVERYONE is trying to be or wants to be a nurse. Is that the new "it career"?
What's the appeal? Nurses do crappy work.
It's the nurse's aides that do the crappy work. RN's do paper work, they supervise those who do the crappy work.
Why people want to be RNs Very good wages, even sign on bonuses of $5000 and up. Very flexible hours -- many nurses can work 12 hours on just the two weekend days and have full time benefits. Many job opportunities and variety -- hospitals - but within a hospital there are many kinds of nursing jobs -- intensive care, ER, surgical, maternal-baby, etc. There are many various clinics that hire nurses, nusing homes, schools and industries, insurance agencies, hospice and home health. Lots of jobs out there for nurses.
The only reason we import workers is to keep wages down. No other reason.
Exactly. Especially with so many Americans out of work -- but they make more getting on unemployment even than the employers want to pay. People in third world nations think $5 an hour is absolutely wonderful.
I've known lots of folks who've been nurses over the past 20+ years; salaries are very good and bound to go up as the need/demand for them always does, flexibility, and if you're willing to continually educate yourself by taking some more courses at a local community college, you'll make even more $$$$$.
Pharmacy technicians are also in demand in many areas; Walgreens & CVS have their own in house training programs.
The nursing boards are worded so strange and bizarre (I hear now more than ever), you need to be a CIA interpretive to even know what the question is really asking. And, some nursing schools have simulation labs with high tech "dummies" where you have to pass skills on them to pass. I hear the boards will eventually have a pass/fail in a simulation lab? Not just the knowledge base with nursing, it's the psychosocial skills necessary of interfacing w/ patient/family/docs that is so grueling and takes a smart cookie to do well. ICU nurses, not relative, they keep you alive, period. Follow an oncology nurse around, the way they titrate these powerful drugs. List goes on...Not for a dumb bunny. The general public thinks RN's do what the TV nurses do.
The nursing boards are worded so strange and bizarre (I hear now more than ever), you need to be a CIA interpretive to even know what the question is really asking. And, some nursing schools have simulation labs with high tech "dummies" where you have to pass skills on them to pass. I hear the boards will eventually have a pass/fail in a simulation lab? Not just the knowledge base with nursing, it's the psychosocial skills necessary of interfacing w/ patient/family/docs that is so grueling and takes a smart cookie to do well. ICU nurses, not relative, they keep you alive, period. Follow an oncology nurse around, the way they titrate these powerful drugs. List goes on...Not for a dumb bunny. The general public thinks RN's do what the TV nurses do.
Well, it's relative one way or the other to which ever academic station or profession. Everything is always relative independent of the job IMO. I find nurses to be amazing, but not because they understand and can administer a dosage of drug.
It's not for me but at least in Arizona there is a big need due to the population increases from the 80's through now. The Phoenix metro area is HUGE and has a lot of people with not enough doctors to treat them, even with the amount of urgent care facilities that pop up.
Why it's not for me is weird. For someone that hardly cringe when they see wrestlers bleeding and getting grated by barbed wire, surgery just freaks me out and makes me feel sick. I don't have the stomach to be a nurse.
Well, my cousin is an ER nurse and makes like $60 an hour. That is more than my mom makes and she is a nurse practicioner (advanced practice nurse), though she does well for herself. So yeah, that's a good reason to want to be one. I personally never found it appealing. My mom has to deal with a lot of stupid people who just want her to write prescriptions of Vicodin or Percocet and will yell at her if she doesn't do it. I couldn't handle that every day.
And there are things I just wouldn't want to do as a nurse, or a doctor even...
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The general public thinks RN's do what the TV nurses do.
