Growing Nursing Positions: Never a Better Time to Become a Nurse

The number of nursing positions is expected to almost double by the year 2015, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor. Added to this, nurses are, and have been, in great demand and in short supply for years. That equates to spectacularly bountiful opportunities for aspiring students and health care workers that are officially among the highest paid in America.

The fact is that being in the nursing industry you will have years -to-come of excellent job security outlooks and ample opportunities to grow in your field.

A quick look at some of your options:

"Some" is stressed here because the number of specific fields, titles and combinations of, therein, are in the dozens.

Nurses who specialize in rehabilitating patients with serious illnesses and disabilities are one of the most popular types. They generally deal with severe drug addicts, severe alcoholics, people with chronic, terminal illnesses and so forth.

Neonatal nurses are a relatively new breed of nurse in America. They tend to most health care aspects of newborns for the first month after birth. This is also an enormously growing sub-sector of the nursing field.

LPN's, or LVN's in a few states, are Licensed Practical nurses and only one step preceding the fully-fledged RN title. They are more likely to work alongside doctors with their own clinics, but also have a prominent place in most hospitals and other facilities that employ nurses. Quite often as an LPN, you will be supervising nursing aides or medical assistants.

Gastroenterology nurses work with patients that who have gastrointestinal ailments or symptoms of therein. They are commonly found in endoscopy centers, doctors' offices and endoscopy departments of large hospitals.

Nurse Practitioners (RN-NP) are nurses that are near or top or at the very top of their field. They usually have a Master of Science of Nursing degree (MSN) and hold a national board certification from either the AANP (American Academy of Nurse Practitioners ) or from the ANCC (American Nurses Credentialing Center).

This is only the tip of the iceberg. There are websites after websites of very informative information on countless varieties of nurses and all aspects of them individually and as a whole.

Simply Unrivaled Advantages

Modern-day nurses have a trio of very distinct advantages. First and foremost, you treat patients with the highest level of care possible and you enrich their lives more than you might ever know. Second, you belong to a very special set of highly-skilled professionals-professionals who enjoy a virtually unlimited growth potential as well as one of the highest paying jobs in the country.

Finally, you strengthen the bonds of communities through caring for patients and their families-and you help to unite different communities across the country and across the world with your abilities. If this is not incentive enough, you have a career that will never disappear and that which will be evolving for decades to come.

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