A DEMAND FOR NURSES???
As I was in the fifth grade I met a friend that sat right next to me during our first day of class (this was many years ago) Her mother happened to be a RN and the more time I spent with my friend the more information I found about what it was like to be an RN. Her mom's stories of the hospital and how good and rewarding it was to be a nurse always fascinated me so I voulnteered at a big city hospital and when I saw the surgery room with the surgeons standing in their scrubs and gloves, I thought to myself, this is what I want to be, a surgeon. As time and school grades quickly passed by, it was not realistic for me to pursue medical school because just getting through a biology course alone was a living nightmare for me! My first semester of college I took chemistry and it was a foreign language to me I ended up dropping it with no choice. My GPA has always been weak which has been my challenge of pursing just the nursing program. Although I have completed the nursing pre req's to this day I am still waiting to get into the program. Ever since I met my friend and her mother who is the nurse I have had this thirst to pursue nursing. They say there is a demand for nurses, then why are those empty slots at the hospitals not being filled by all of the students from every booked nursing school?? Is it that students are not passing or completing nursing school? Why is their still such a wide shortage?????