The Perks of Being a Nurse Which We Should Be Aware

Being a registered nurse is a self fulfilling job because you know you  can help people not just in their health but in surviving their lives. It is a very gratifying feeling that you are one of the reasons why some patients survived mainly because of your skill, effort and dedication to work. Working as a nurse is a both complex and complicated work but beyond its complexity and complications, many are still aspiring this position.

We all know now a days the work status of registered nurses. They are underpaid, abused in working hours and they are never bound by an eight hour shift. They don’t even spend their time with their families but they are in the hospital taking care of other people. How ironic right? But that is the life of a nurse. They have been so unfair to their own families in order for them to cater their services to ill people.  But why is that there are still many people applying for this course beyond of its discrepancies? Let us discover one by one.

You have a variety of choices. Choices in a sense that, if you are a nurse, you can use this as a pre-course to your medical career if you are aspiring to be a doctor. But if you want still to be a nurse, you have still the choices to work in different sections like in the nursing homes, hospitals, clinic, government health centers, check-up clinics, school clinics, industrial clinics, polyclinics and many more. You just have to choose where you want.

In terms also in position, you still have choices. From a staff nurse, head nurse, unit nurse, specialty nurse, nurse manager, nurse supervisor and you can even be a medical director if you wish to continue your continuing education or higher degree of education.

If in terms of area, still there are many specialty areas you can choose from; Cardiac center, respiratory, pulmonary, kidney center, skin center and many more. There are varieties in this field of work.

Flexible Work Schedules. Being a nurse you can choose between and AM, PM and a night shift. You can also work 8 up to 12 hours. Unlike other jobs, it is a fixed schedule that they already work from 8AM- 5PM and their work were already a routine for them that is why they got bored easily and quit.

Relocate easily. If you are a nurse most especially in the United States, you can ask for a relocation from one state to another if you really want. Since there many states in the United States, it is really easy to relocate. Just ask a decent permission to your heads regarding this matter.

You can build bridges with many people. If you are a nurse, it is really easy to build relationships with other people most especially to your patients. Since you are the one taking care of them, it is really possible that these patients may become closer to you and they might treat you as one of the members of their family which is a very good situation.

Almost every job has a downside of its own and so is being a registered nurse. But then even how difficult sometimes our job is, we just have to look on the brighter side it gives us and into our lives.

” Nurses are God’s angels in disguise”