Pros and cons about becoming a Registered Nurse ?

There’s your pros and cons!

Pros: It s very easy to find a job. You have choices of what field of nursing you want to go into. Aside from the different hospital departments, nurses do clinics, research, teach, management, informatics etc. The pay will sound really good until you see the cons lol. It is both very rewarding and very challenging. At the end of the day, you will always go home knowing you made a difference in someone’s life. You will continually learn new things as medicine evolves. You will be a godsend whenever there’s a medical emergency in a party, plane, restaurant. You will meet a lot of interesting people and how they and their family deal with illness. Your fitness level will improve as your leg, arm and back muscle will be worked often.

Cons: You will be required to work some weekends, holidays, during storms or catastrophic events. It can be very very stressful and physically challenging. You will miss meals, lunch breaks. Some nurses are required to be on call on their days off, it means the have to work if needed. During storms or catastrophic events, you will be required to stay in the hospital until there is enough staff for the whole hospital. They might even tell you it’s for your own safety lol. You will be screamed at, laughed at, belittled, insulted etc. A patient might harm you, throw things at you, lie about you etc depending on their state of minds. You will suffer the loss of a dear patient. You will clean the remains and console the family afterwards. You will have to deal with several patient going bad at the same time. You will have to juggle several issues at the same time. You will go home tired, with your feet, arms and back hurting. A patient might lie about you but you will still be in trouble about it because “ patient satisfaction”. Management is now more focused on financial aspect of patient care and will seem to not care about nurses- patient ratio ie safety.