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Introduction
Why go into Nursing as your profession?
Pros
- Multiple factors are driving job growth and demand, so getting into the field is possible.
- Job security is high in all states.
- Becoming any kind of nurse opens the door to specializations and potential career advancement.
Cons
- The global pandemic can make the profession more stressful.
- Working with sick patients can mean risk of infection.
- The rising costs of college or university education make the educational requirements more expensive with every passing year.
- Hospital-based certification programs aren’t as widely available as they once were.
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Sara Goldberg shares a very personal understanding of her life as a nurse, how she got there, her struggles, what it taught her, privilege, and the stereotypes she faced as a nurse. Start at 9:29 to get a great understanding of the stereotypes about the profession. Her video is below.