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“Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.” Oprah Winfrey .  ~ jjjohn ~ /  Foter.com /  CC BY-NC-ND. What’s Your Next Step?. What are your plans after High School? Where do you see yourself in five years?

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  1. “Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.” Oprah Winfrey  ~jjjohn~ / Foter.com/ CC BY-NC-ND

  2. What’s Your Next Step? • What are your plans after High School? • Where do you see yourself in five years? • How much money do you want to make? • What is your ultimate GOAL!!!

  3. Nurses • Nurses protect, promote, optimize health, prevent illness and injury, and advocate for patients and their families. • Nurses provide care in hospitals, homes, community clinics, and at schools. • Nursing is the highest workforce amongst healthcare workers, and is considered one of the most admiring careers in America. • Nursing is a career without borders, without color, and without gender difference. • Nursing is about those whose father, mother, brother, sister, or child you have saved or care for on a daily basis. Not a day goes by that you don’t hear a thank you.

  4. Diversity • Minorities are needed in nursing. • Only 6.6% of the nursing population are males, and only 16% are minorities. • 6.6% = 200,000 males out of 3.06 million licensed RN. • 16% = 490,000 minorities out of 3.06 million licensed RN. • Hispanics are the fastest rising minority group in the US yet it only represents about 2% of the total nursing population (54,861).

  5. Advantages of a nursing career • Working hours- 12hr shifts x 3 days is full time. • National license • Can work in other parts of the world. • Salary average of $60,000/yr • Nursing Shortage in 2020 which guarantees jobs. • Opportunities in nursing career are endless.

  6. Flight nurses • Transport Trauma Patients • Gun shot wounds • Motor Vehicle Accidents • Burns • The Most Critical Patients

  7. Armed Force nurses • Provide Front Line Care • Provide care to the wounded soldiers at base. • They Are Also Soldiers

  8. ER nurse • Provides emergency acute care. • Adrenaline rush with every case. • Immediate life care is in your hands.

  9. Other Nursing options • Operating Room Nurses • Oncology Nurse (Cancer) • Pediatric Nurse (Children) • Community Health Nurse • Case Manager • ……And many more……

  10. Be proud of what you doJoin the nurse workforce

  11. Reference http://www.flickr.com/photos/jjjohn/3176660986/ Men in nursing. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.menstuff.org/issues/byissue/malenurses.html Military science. (2013). Retrieved from http://militaryscience.truman.edu/nursing.asp Nurses in the airforce. (2013). Retrieved from http://www.airforce.com/hpelp/nurses/career-development/ Parker, M. (2013). Flight nurses certification. Retrieved from http://www.ehow.com/about_6571601_flight-nursing-certification.html (Photo Credit Rescue image by Studio Pookini from Fotolia.com) What is nursing?. (2013). Retrieved from http://www.nursingworld.org/EspeciallyForYou/What-is-Nursing Rosseter, R. (2011, July 15). Enhancing diversity in the workforce. Retrieved from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/media-relations/fact-sheets/enhancing-diversity Richey, J. (2001, MAY 4). [Web log message]. Retrieved from http://blog.nwjobs.com/careercenter/cool_job_flight_nurse_jeff_richey.html

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