Why Choose Nursing as a Career?

Nursing is a dynamic and expanding profession.  Nursing is both an art and a science, and it focuses on helping clients achieve an optimal state of health.  More specifically nurses assist clients in:

• Promoting good health.
• Coping with health problems and maintaining life.
• Adapting to and/or recovering from the effects of disease or injury.
• Supporting their right to a dignified death.

Reference:  National Council of State Boards of Nursing, 1999

Nursing is a career for individuals who are looking to be active participants in helping others, desire to never be bored, and want a variety of employment opportunities.  Nursing has opportunities for individuals with a wide diversity of talents and abilities.  Consider the different attributes that nurses would need working in the following areas: childbirth centers, community health, emergency departments, geriatric wellness programs, intensive care units, mental health programs, occupational health, operating rooms, nursing research, school health, substance abuse treatment programs, and many more.  Nurses understand that the ongoing changes in nursing and the health care system create a need for life-long learning to keep their knowledge and skills up-to-date.  Nursing is a career for a lifetime.

Kentucky Hospital Association Center for Health Careers 

"Collaboratively with stakeholders, provides comprehensive, reliable, and timely information on and to the Kentucky health care workforce that impacts the health care of its citizens."  Visitors to this site can request a free CD-ROM “Be A Nurse.”

Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow 

Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow (NHT) is a coalition of 42 nursing and health care organizations working together to wage a communications campaign to attract people to the nursing profession.

Discover Nursing 

This site, generously sponsored through Johnson & Johnson, provides complete information about the profession.  As a nurse, you have the opportunity to touch lives, to comfort, and to care every day.  "If you have the desire and the heart, we can help."

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