This may be preaching to the choir, but I thought our readers would be interested:

Jennifer Johnson, who will be a guest blogger on the topic of nurse practitioner schools among other hot topics in nursing on The Leaders’ Lounge, a nursing blog for Strategiesfornursemanagers.com, posted about why people decide to become nurses.

Her first couple of reasons include:

1. To meet a critical need. There is a great need for qualified nursing professionals to fill vacant positions at healthcare facilities across the country. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, the nursing shortage is only expected to increase.

2. To ease pain and suffering. Nursing is the sort of profession where one’s daily responsibilities directly contribute to helping patients improve their condition. Rarely a day goes by where a nurse is not making someone’s life better and taking steps to improve someone’s health. Whether you’re a military nurse caring for wounded soldiers in the field or an oncology nurse preparing a patient for chemotherapy, your work makes a difference. For this reason, many nurses find their work very rewarding.

3. Nurses are in-demand and will be for years to come. A good RN doesn’t stay unemployed for long in the U.S., and it’s likely to stay that way well into the future

Feel free to visit The Leaders’ Lounge to read the rest by clicking here.

What I’m curious about, however, is what my nursing student or new nurse readers think: What are your reasons for entering the nursing field?