But, oh, the rewards we receive and the joy we feel when we do our jobs well. National Nurses Week seems to be a good time to think about the positive aspects of nursing. Nurses are valued by society. A Gallup Poll released in November found that the nursing profession ranked highest in honesty and ethics. This is the second year that nursing has come out ahead of other professions such as medicine, pharmacy, teaching and engineering.
Nurses develop great flexibility.
You never know who your next admission will be and when it will come. You do know that planning your shift means that you prioritize what absolutely, positively has to be done, because the odds are good that whatever plan you make will change frequently as crises arise. Nurses know how to multi-task. It has been said that one of the strengths of Generation X individuals is that they can do many things at once. Nurses could teach people from any generation the fine art of multi-tasking.