Why Nursing??

You can do anything!

You can make a difference in your world as a nurse - a highly educated professional. With the increased need for nurses and a wide variety of careers from which to choose, you'll find a match for your passions and interests. A nursing career offers exciting opportunities from working on a NASA space team to caring for children in your local community... your choices are boundless! Check out our Student Perceptions below, and scroll down through the Career Opportunities list as well, to get an idea of the magnitude of opportunities awaiting you in the nursing field.

Check out this site to learn more about the nursing career:

http://www.discovernursing.com/why

Student Perceptions . . .

"Why do I want to be a nurse? I chose nursing because of the vast career choices. Additionally, I can work anywhere in the world! I once read a quote that stated 'You’ll never work a day in your life if you’re doing something you love.' To simply say I love nursing because I help healing happen can not sum up how I feel toward nursing. I love positively impacting people’s lives. I love how nursing looks at individuals from the spiritual, emotional, physiological, and the physical antimony of the person. We love people as a whole individual! And this is how we treat them in the hospital setting on all these levels. I know how to help healing happen in all these fields!
- Danielle Bustos, current 2007 senior UW Nursing student
"Why do I want to be a nurse? A bond forms when I am helping people who cannot help themselves... a bond of spoken and unspoken gratitude...the knowledge that I just touched a life. Nursing is so much deeper than just helping. It's caring!" - Jadrian Rawlins, UW Nursing Graduate 2003
"I chose to do my choice-based clinicals at the University Hospital of Mississippi Medical Center, a 622-bed facility and the only trauma center in the whole state of Mississippi... Out of the tragedies and out of all the lives I saw changed forever in that ER department I also gained a better understanding of my capabilities and myself. I know I cannot change what goes on in a person's life, but I can make a difference in his or her despair and need. That is something I definitely have control over, and it is this that has made all the difference for me!" - Tonya MacDonald, UW Nursing Graduate 2002

Administrator/Leader (hospital & nursing home)
Case Manager
County Health Officer
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Emergency Room Nurse
Nurse Researcher
Flight Trauma Team Nurse
Nurse Educator
Armed Services Nurse
Home Health Nurse
Traveling Nurse
School Nurse
Nurse Consultant
Hospital Floor Nurse
Nursing Home Nurse
Obstetrics Nurse
Physician's Office Nurse
Family Nurse Practitioner
Public Health Nurse
Hospice Nurse
Corporate Nurse
Mental Health Care Nurse
Pediatric Nurse
Geriatric Nurse
... and the list goes on!

page last updated 3/15/2007

Why Nursing??

You can do anything!

Student Perceptions . . .

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