It’s believed by many that Nurses are a crucial link between patients and doctors in the worldwide health care system. Nurses now work in a variety of

settings: hospitals, clinics, home health agencies, schools and industry.

Along with all other health care specialists, including personal and home care aides, and home health aides, Nurses are and will continue to be in great demand. They often work long shifts, and much of the work is physical, but they enjoy high compensation for their training, and are highly compensated due the shortage of nurses.

Today they have flexibility in their working schedules and more options than ever before about what kind of work they do, where they do it, and when they work. Nurses today are making their presence felt in areas as diverse as legislation, changes in health care delivery systems, writing and publishing, disease prevention education and health promotion, and boards of directors. They even conduct research to develop new standards of practice. Nurses work long hours while standing on their feet for long periods of time.

Nurses must be able to understand and accept that as frontline caregivers patients are concerned with their own welfare and may not show the respect to nurses they deserve.

Due to industry regulations Nurses are required to be licensed in the state in which they work.

Nurses have traditionally ranked at or near the top of Gallup’s annual list of Best Professions since being added in 1999. Even small town weekly papers are likely to have quite a few ads for nursing positions, and in large cities there will be columns and columns of institutions hiring nurses. It’s widely known that there simply aren’t nearly enough trained and qualified nurses available to fill these job. There’s a severe shortage of qualified nurses to fill all the available positions, and it’s believed that shortage is only going to get worse. Presently, the shortage is somewhere between 100,000 and 150,000 nurses nationwide. There’s no way that the health care industry can fill all their open nursing jobs now, and more nurses are needed every year in every city. Hospitals and medical offices compete vigorously to hire nurses, and wages, benefit package, and hiring bonuses are increasing all the time.