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As the recession continues, layoffs batter industry after industry, from banking to auto manufacturing to construction to retail.
But for at least one occupation, demand is still high -- so high that job candidates have been plied with incentives that range from gas cards to $20,000-signing bonuses to an opportunity to meet a celebrity.
Back when I wanted to be a nurse, I also read that some nursing schools are turning applicants away or putting them on waiting lists because there simply aren't enough nurse educators/professors of nursing.
I love helping people and the human body fascinates me but nursing just isn't for me.
I think I might have convinced a cousin of mine to become a nurse rather than wracking up a bunch of debt to become a doctor. We're both in the same spot in college (second semester) so...we have a bit of time to decide.
I hope a lot of people decide to enter the nursing field. It will ease the burden on some nurses who are in the field already, hopefully increase the quality of care, etc.
I wish I had the passion because that money certainly looks good. I don't want to go to college for a job/career that I won't enjoy.
Maybe people realize they don't have the intelligence or aptitude to do it.
Heck, I would love to have the money some people make at high salaried jobs but I know my limitations. I know there are certain things, despite the lure of money and 'guaranteed work', I simply would not be able to handle.
A post in Phoenix AZ by 2 nurses says Phoenix hospitals are laying off nurses and not hiring new ones. They typically work the ones they have to near death when there are shortages, layoffs,etc. so that group leaves, they rehire more and then they start the cycle over again.
I can remember in the 80's when hospitals started having more regs (DRG's) and patients had to go in and out faster, they started decreasing nurses/per patients. And, they wonder why there are shortages?? The stress level on today's hospital nurses is even worse than years back.
You have got to be DEDICATED to your nursing job. Which means lots of long hours, and caring for the sick and ill! Don't get into the profession because of a recession, or you will not survive in the field.
I worked as a nurse (LPN) for over 10 years and had all the advance science to continue my RN and I burnt out. Yes, there are nursing jobs, but as one poster stated you have to really like it. It can be very stressful. Also, remember, that many of the jobs are shift work, patients don't go home at 5pm or leave on weekends. If you specilize (spell more schooling) you can get out of the shift work sometimes but if you move you generally start near the bottom again.
And yup, it can get nasty, the patient, docs and hospital admin.. and lots of politics going on at all times.
If I had the money I'd go for something like Physical Therapy...no emergencies, nights or weekends. Or some of the advanced Rad stuff.
There are other areas of medicine that might be more suitable for many other than the Nurse/Doctor route.
Back in the early to mid 90s, I knew some friends of mine that were leaving the nursing profession because of the very long hours that they had to put in and because of the total lack of respect and downright verbal abuse thay they had to put up with from numerous Doctors. This is something that I would hear a lot. Many Doctors just don't have any respect for nurses. This is a big reason why many leave the profession. A year ago, I had to spend a lot of time at a hospital in Chicago while my father was dying of cancer. One of the things that I noticed about the nursing staff there was the numbr of foreign nationals that were working there. They were from the Philipines and South Korea. I thought it was interesting that this hospital had to rely on so many of these nurses when there is this so called nursing shortage. Just some food for thought.
Well, as a nurse of 17 years now, I have to disagree with you. I love my job...oh, and I never once had to change a bedpan.
? just have to ask how this has been possible
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