| This is a harder than usual piece for me to write, | | | | career in nursing by giving an honest and candid look |
| because I'm just a geek who usually feels most | | | | at what this career path demands and offers to those |
| comfortable writing about gadgets, gizmos, and | | | | who choose it. That's why I'm writing this article, to help |
| products. I am not a nurse, and I know nothing about | | | | my sister help others who might choose an exciting |
| medicine or patient care giving. But, as a young girl | | | | and rewarding career in nursing. |
| there was a time when I wanted to be a nurse when I | | | | Did you know there are lots of registered nurses who |
| grew up, and though I didn't follow that career path, my | | | | never work with patients? They work as consultants |
| sister did. | | | | with law offices that handle medical and injury cases. |
| As I got older I realized that I couldn't handle the stress | | | | I'm not sure why you would want to get an education |
| and responsibilities of caring for the sick and injured, no | | | | in care giving and not actually use it to give care, but |
| matter how much it appealed to me, I just wasn't cut | | | | the option exists for those who do. |
| out for it. But Cindy, my sister, was--and not only is she | | | | I've always thought of hospitals, clinics and doctor's |
| cut out for it, she's very good at it. So good in fact, that | | | | offices when I thought of nurses, but those are just the |
| she has been made the coordinator of LPN's and | | | | most visible jobs nurses hold, they are not by far the |
| nursing students who rotate onto the 3 floors of | | | | only jobs available to nurses. |
| Intensive and Critical care wards at the hospital she | | | | Some work in schools, cruise ships, industrial facilities, |
| works in. | | | | retirement and assisted living communities and so on. |
| She's not just a good nurse and care giver, but she's | | | | Some also do what is called travel nursing, which are |
| also a good leader and teacher; which she's | | | | usually short term postings in hospitals or clinics around |
| passionate about since she believes there is a real | | | | the country. A few weeks in Chicago, then on to a |
| crisis on the horizon given the growing need for care | | | | couple months in Miami...travel the country and meet |
| givers to our aging population and a giant shortage in | | | | lots of new people...sound like an exciting life? There |
| qualified people to provide the services. | | | | are thousands of RN's living it right now. |
| She's so passionate about this that she's created a | | | | Nursing can be a very exciting career, it's challenging, |
| web site to help people who may be considering a | | | | it's rewarding to help others. |