Why I Want To Become A Registered Nurse

Have you thought about what you want to do when you finish high school? I believe becoming a registered nurse would be such an incredible job. Going into nursing gives you so many opportunities in life. When you finally become a nurse, you are able to help those in need, like giving them treatments if they are ill. Nursing is one of the majors that has been around for a lifetime and is one of the most in demand profession. For a while, nursing use to just be used for those who were sick without any family or close friends to take care of them in their time of need. Men and women served as nurses in the Revolutionary War(Collier). In 1872, New England hospital opened a nursing school with a curriculum of one year(Collier). I specifically choose this occupation to talk about because I have lost three very …show more content…
No family should have to lose a loved one and I would love to be that person who keeps families together. A lot of people talk about wanting to become a nurse all through high school, but only a few actually go through college for nursing and finish nursing school. In California, there are approximately 291,448 registered nurses, 80,544 Licensed Practical Nurses. In the United States, there is about 3.083, 487 registered nurses and about 833,840 Licensed Practical Nurses. That’s a total of 3,916,967 nurses in the United States. There are five states that you have a better chance of becoming a nurse in. Those states are California, Florida, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. In California, we are in need of an estimated 291,200 RN, 64,800 LPN along with 83,600 CNAs(Nursing link). The nursing