What is Nursing in your own opinion?

in my own opinion? nursing in my country is the most popular or sought after career or course. an average of 20-30 thousand graduate yearly. and all are lining up to go to abroad and work there, i can't blame them for the compensation in other countries especially the developed ones are irresistible, that is why even doctors here are shifting careers into nursing, sad truth but acceptable. the irony is we have lots of nurse graduates but we lack nurses in our own country, reasons are same as above stated. in technical sense i bet you already know all the duties and responsibilities of a nurse, as you are now part of an important health care personnel. my aunt is a nurse and i think the most important quality she posses is the passion to care sick and elderly people. i can romantically say that nurses are the heart of the medical heath care profession,. lol cheesy me!

It is all that both of you have said.But the thing that makes a nurse stand out is personal care for the ailing.Most days you find the nurses come and follow doctors instructions mechanically.If there is a personal care for the sick i think they'll remember you long after they have recovered.

Nurses, whether officially trained or not,are pivotal in the mediccal world. They are closer to those in need of medical treatment, partly because they are almost everyday in contact with the patients. Doctors may be qualified to make a diagnosis, but many of them are incapable of giving treatment the way nurses can. I remember reading an article when I was doing nursing in the UK, that on average doctors only get 60% of rheir opinion correct. I assume that part of the reason is the fact that they are not always there to obeserve and listen. I found many doctors do not listen to their patients, prejydging them until it is a bit late. Nurses can give something that many patients need, a shoulder to cry on. In short nurses shoulder the burden of many job descriptions. Without nurses there is no medical care,

Hello shadow, Nursing is the most popular career in the Philippines. I have noticed this since 2005, from hundreds grew thousands of applicants, students, interns and others. but the level of quality has gone down, as off 2008 there was a lot of commotion concerning cheating on the exams exposed by some students. so many people in this career that only a few understands the real meaning of it. there was this one interview on news that pissed me of because when he (gay) was asked why is he studying nursing, he said "to better provide good service to clients" wtf? i never forgot that reasoning. this make me noticed that not every one is fit to be a nurse simply because the reason why most people are taking nursing is because of the money offered abroad. Nursing is a Professional Care to Patients and Assistants to Doctors. it's too bad that even Doctors are turning nurse to other countries just to earn money.

Most nurses would work in hospitals or clinics and nursing homes. Some may work in private homes and private companies. Some may be hired from hospitals to man other private enterprises. Five years ago when I co-led a small school/workshop for the challenged persons where we lived and worked together in rural Indonesia I wanted a nurse or two to be stationed in the school permanently as part of the professional-support services staff. As we had in our enrollment a few students who were severe a resident-nurse would help in looking into their medical/health needs in the school as well as those of the staff's considering some had nothing more than their faith and the believe in what we were doing. Besides, part of the nurse's duty would be to arrange and conduct health/medical workshops on a regular basis. A knowledge of special education would be an advantage. We were not able to realize this. But it was all because of the lack of funds than the lack of ideas. We were grateful to be able to feed, cloth and provide a shelter for most from the earnings we had from agriculture, fishing, carpentry, printing founded and intensified on the concept of social enterprise. I may have physically left the school now but my spirits remain high. And I hope to return some day to continue the work I had done.

hi kuya luigi, nursing for me is an art of caring. soon to be nurses, should have that. I know most of the people who took the course, doesn't want to be a nurse, rather they were forced to take it for a greener pasture, and that is very common in our college. even if at first we were just forced to take that, we should learn to how love the profession since we can't survive for four years of hardship if in the first place we are don't like it. and as we care for our profession, we will be able to care for them with our hands that does the job, and our hearts that feels for the person.:-)