9. Pays better than McDonald’s (though the hours aren’t as good.)

8. Fashionable shoes and sexy uniforms.

7. Needles: ’tis better to give than to receive.

6. Confidence in reassuring patients that all bleeding stops … eventually.

5. Opportunity to expose yourself to rare, exotic, and exciting new diseases.

4. Interesting aromas.

3. Courteous and infallible doctors who always leave clear orders in perfectly clear handwriting.

2. Celebration of holidays with all your friends … at work.

1. Comfort in the knowledge that most of your patients survive no matter what you do to them.

  • I have written a small book which is a sort of study adjunct for nursing students. Would you be willing to give me permission to add your Top 10 Reasons to Become a nurse?
    Or could you ask whoever this came from? Whoever it is will be credited in the next edition of the book if I am allowed to use it.
    I would like to put this on my website, also.
    But I do not wish to stomp on anybody's copyrighted feet.
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