Nursing Career Research Paper

Throughout the last couple years of my life, I have made the decision that I want to pursue a career in nursing. “Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations.” (American Nurses Association). This presents nursing as a very broad field. I had heard that nursing was a very opportunistic major, but I had no clue truly how expansive it was. There are as many as 104 different types of specializations a nurse can choose from. I have explored the various opportunities of nursing I would …show more content…
This type of nurse is responsible for taking care of patients at the end of their lives. This includes things like making sure the patient is in the least amount of pain before they pass away. A important part of being a hospice nurse is providing comfort for patients and their families, giving them the emotional support they need. As far as income goes, a hospice nurse usually makes $25.99 an hour on average, but as for most nursing jobs pay depends on many variables (Payscale, Inc.). I personally find this type of nursing sad and something I would not like to do on a day to day basis. I will already have to learn how to deal with death in other types of nursing but there really is no hope for these patients. They are at the end of their lives and are dying somewhat naturally. Also I am not the nest at providing comfort or emotionally stability for those in such a situation. I have had friends who have had close family members die and often find myself not able to help them overcome their emotions. Overall, this type of nursing would not work for me because I would not want to have to deal with so much death and the emotional families that come with