nursing

Nursing

In 1992 alone, about 90,000 people were licensed as registered nurses,
joining 2.2 million, other registered nurses in the nations largest health care
profession (Frederickson 5). This is largely due to these new and rapidly
expanding opportunities that the nursing profession has continued to grow
throughout the 1990’s (Frederickson 6).

It is no secret that hospitals are downsizing and nurses are being
replaced by less skilled, less costly, unlicensed assistant personnel in an
attempt to deal with these fiscal realities (Frederickson 9). A career in
nursing requires hard work and extensive schooling, but is rewarding and
challenging.

In 1992, about two-thirds of employed registered nurses worked in
hospitals but nearly ten percent of registered nurses worked in community or
public health settings, including health departments, visiting nurse services,
non hospital home health services, and substance abuse outpatient facilities,
among othe...