What is nursing?
- it is a hands-on health profession
- the treatment of illnesses and injuries
- focused and personalized healthcare
- a field with many specialties and career opportunities
- one of the most trusted professions in the US
- a rapidly growing field
Nursing is a highly personalized healthcare field.
Nurses must integrate their scientific knowledge of the human body and illnesses with treatments and the emotional aspects of patient care.
Types of Nursing
Here is a great infographic from hospitalcareers.com that details some of the major nursing careers. Click on the image to go to the website.
Work Locations
Nurses can work at a variety of locations including:
- hospitals
- schools
- private clinics
- outpatient services
- nursing homes
- businesses
- healthcare services
- physician offices
- camps
- correctional facilities
- prisons
- military bases
- or other employers
Job Growth
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, here are the statistics for nursing from 2018:
- $71,730 per year
$34.48 per hour - 3,059,800 jobs
- Job outlook: 12% (Much faster than average)
- Average job growth is around 7-8%
Want more information about nursing?
Here are some of the resources I gathered information from that have some great insightful facts and tips!
Nurse.org is a great website that covers a wide range of information about nursing.
- It has information about careers, job, education and more.
- This blog from this website is a great overview of some of the main and currently highest paying nursing positions.
- Here is a quick link to a list of nursing careers with more details.
For a more concise explanation of nursing, check out this page from Rasmussen College.
- It summarizes the information found on Nurse.org and also includes some other important information
- One section that may be of interest is the list of qualities and technical skills that are important to a nursing position.
Before you come a nurse, however, you must go through many years of education and training.
- Learn How to Become is a wonderful site that has a thorough breakdown of the educational path to becoming a nurse.
- It go through different educational paths based on different types of nursing specialties.
Medical News Today has an article with an even more concise summary of nursing.
- It also has some interesting information about the growth of nursing fields.
The Johnson and Johnson Nursing website is also a wonderful resource for nursing.
- It covers lots of information about nursing education and career paths.
- This short and simple quiz is great for anyone who would like to know which nursing specialty will suit them best.