Nursing Career

Nursing is a career filled with endless personal and professional rewards. If you choose nursing, you are choosing to spend your life helping others, using skills that blend scientific knowledge with compassion and caring. There are few professions that offer such a rewarding combination of high tech and high touch.

Nursing is the nation's largest health care profession, with 2.6 million registered nurses (RNs), and many more needed in the future. Nurses are the largest single component of any hospital staff - the primary providers of hospital patient care - and, they deliver most of the nation's nursing home care. They work in a variety of other settings as well.