For people who are nurses?!
Question: I think that I want to major in nursing at Uconn. What type of person do you have to be to be a nurse? What is something about being a nurse that most people don't know?
Answers: I think that I want to major in nursing at Uconn. What type of person do you have to be to be a nurse? What is something about being a nurse that most people don't know?
There are two aspects of nursing. First let's be honest, money. If you are going into the profession for money...it's not worth it. You can make a lot of money, but money isn't the end of it all. It's a hard profession. If you like caring for people, can work with bodily fluids (blood, pooh :), secretions), you should be fine. But it is a great profession: there is the job security and let's say you get bored with one aspect, you can branch out: Medical-surgical, Intensive Care, Operating Room, and others. You have that flexibility. But what I have described is only a part of it.
Well first thing you have to be caring and supportive. You have to understand that the patient is ill and pain manangement is important. Nursing is tough but there are so many things that you can do with a nursing degree, teach, school nurse, med surg.
Tough, patient, compassionate, devoted.
It's very difficult to be a nurse on a medical ward in a hospital because nurses usually know more than MDs but have to take orders from MDs. They know the patients better because they have much more contact with them...but MDs don't usually listen to them.
It's like being in middle management.
Other types of nursing can be in substance abuse, women, psychiatry, school,consultation, home care, elderly, physical rehab, teaching in nursing schools or to colleagues, etc.
I think it's great you want to be a nurse.
Good luck to you.