Why a Nurse? It is a “calling” – a “movement within the Soul.
Nursing is an exclusive profession … more than a career …. you cannot “cross-train” to be a Nurse.
Recent events have left the Nursing profession in dire need of intervention. The now “three-year long COVID pandemic” has left Nurses depleted of emotional and mental and physical strength. In addition, the tragic event of #RaDondaVaught has caused many Nurses to reevaluate their commitment and status.
You ask – why the fuss? Why the attention? A Nurse?
Nursing is an exclusive profession – no other profession has quite the obligations, challenges, and rewards.
Nursing is unique
unique from a personal perspective
unique from a professional perspective
and
unique from an educational and knowledge perspective.
You see ….
One can cross-train to other professions – that is, one can become educated and practice successfully as a technologist, a scientist, a researcher, an informationist, an informaticist or a data analyst, but …. one cannot cross-train to nursing.
One can "learn" technology, but one cannot "learn" nursing, or medicine. Nursing is a unique profession with a skill set that must be "practiced" … practiced in order to learn and possess the skills needed to assess a situation, a person, a condition and … the Nurse must have the skills and knowledge to perform “immediately” when the situation presents itself.
A nursing degree will lead you in many directions ~~~
~~~ many careers known and some, not yet know or identified. Future careers will be created based on events (as was the case with COVID-19), globalization events, evolution of mankind - wealth, populations, climate, etc. We talk a lot about the aging population, but a world event might wipe out a generation ... a younger generation. All things we do not yet know ... Nurses will be needed.
Nurses are identified as the “most trusted” workforce in healthcare yet, are often met with challenging conditions:
... shortage of staff,
... shortage of supplies to work safely and effectively (PPE),
... unfair wages for work performed (24x7) and work risk,
... a learning curve for new nurses,
... workplace violence and bullying,
... and this year, mental and physical exhaustion from the coronavirus pandemic.
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