Check Out the Rewards
Why Should You Be a Nurse?
The average nurse's salary is $48,000 with many opportunities for advancement.
Plus nursing professionals typically receive excellent medical benefits.
Ohio will need many new nurses to care for its 11,000,000+
citizens especially as a recent Ohio Board of Nursing survey
shows that 40% of current Ohio nurses plan to retire within 10
years.
Flexible hours make nursing the career of choice for many people.
There are many shifts you can work, and many nurses with children
like the fact that they can often work three days a week and be off
four in order to spend more time with their families.
Quick Fact
You can become a nurse in as little as
one year!
Nurses can work in clinics, physicians' offices, hospitals, nursing homes, and
schools. Home health nurses care for patients in the patients' homes, public
health nurses work for government or private agencies, and industrial nurses
provide nursing care at worksites to employees.
Nursing gives you the opportunity to do important work every day by promoting
health, preventing disease, and helping patients cope with illness. Nurses are
advocates and health educators for patients, families, and communities.
