Becoming A Registered Nurse

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"The best way to predict your future to create it" -Abraham Lincoln. Many people have goals for the future, like careers for example. The work environment for usual nurses is in hospitals, physician office's, home healthcare surfaces and nursing care facilities (. A registered nurse needs to have an associates degree, qualities like compassion and stability, and to know about the overall work environment. To become a registered nurse one needs an education, obviously. The entry level education to become a nurse is an associates degree (Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2014-15 Edition, Registered Nurses, on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/registered-nurses.htm (visited

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