Nursing is assessing, diagnosing, and treating actual or potential health problems and the planning, implementing, and evaluating of nursing care. Professional nurses are committed to the overall goal of health promotion and the care and nurturing of people who are ill. Nurses also help people to achieve and maintain a healthy state, meet their basic needs, adapt to changes in their health status, recover from illness, and die with dignity.
Nursing offers a career with both personal and financial rewards.
Many men and women are drawn to nursing because it is a caring profession one that combines human compassion with the sophisticated technologies of modern health care. In addition to bridging advanced science and the art of caring, the nursing profession offers its practitioners a variety of employment and career opportunities. In addition, many RNs are managing their own clinics or other types of health-related businesses. Nurses with advanced degrees can be nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, administrators, researchers, political consultants, members of federal and state regulatory bodies, educators, and health care advisers to government and private businesses. There are currently more than 20,000 nurse entrepreneurs in this country.