Nursing is often seen to be a low paid, over worked, under valued job and usually conjures up mental images of hospitals and 12 hour shifts emptying bed pans. While I’m sure there are nurses out there that fit this image perfectly, it simply doesn’t have to be the case.
Nursing can take on many guises; some nurses love the daily challenge of working in a hospital while others seek very different ways to care for people. Nursing can be conducted in health centers, doctor’s surgeries, rest home, care homes and pharmacies but there are other, much more alternative and unusual methods of nursing.
You may want to consider being, or maybe you already are, an airline nurse who care for travelers who are ill. You can work on film and TV sets. Insurance companies and pension companies employ nurses for numerous tasks including educating and investigating.
Whatever role you may take, nursing truly is the caring profession. Some nurses specialize in chronic illnesses such as cancer, and they educate not only the patients but also family and friends of sufferers.
Perhaps the most active and certainly one of the most challenging ways to become a nurse is through the armed services. The army, air force and navy are always shouting out for more doctors and nurses to serve in the field or at base. Being a nurse in the battlefield is an incredibly challenging move and teamwork as well as bravery are essential attributes to the nursing staff.
We have pages and pages of resources for nursing but if we don’t have what you are looking for there is also a Nursing Resources section at the bottom of the page with links to other sites which we believe contain invaluable information for nurses and the nursing profession in general.