What is Nursing?

As a student interested in the nursing field there are many assumptions I have made about nursing that are not actually true of the major. There are many assumptions I made, such as assuming income, hours, and things of that nature. The issue with assuming these things about nursing in general is that there are so many jobs within the nursing field. It is hard to assume something about nursing (in general) when there are so many different types of nursing.

After doing some research I have come to find that there are many different types of nursing. Each different type of nursing has a different income and different hours. This was interesting to me how broad the one major was. I am now better educated than I was when I first was deciding on a major, but at first I was clueless to how many options nursing truly offered. 

Before deciding upon nursing I always thought

-nursing was as specific as it got

-nurses were just the doctor's aids

-nurses made about half what a doctor made

-nurses all worked intense hours

Now that I am majoring in nursing and have done research on multiple types of nursing I know

-there are VARIOUS types of nursing (anesthesia, pediatric, labor, etc.)

-all various types of nurses have various incomes

-all various nurses work various hours

Although it would make things much more simple if all types of nursing required the same amount of schooling and had the same income that isn't the case and it is understandable. It is good that all nurses are educated differently and make different amounts of money because each type differs from each other and we need all types of nurses for proper health care of individuals everywhere.



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Rachel Grzanka