-: So every nurse has to become a CNA,
or Certified Nursing Assistant.
You don't diagnose,
and you don't do some of the behind-the-scenes things.
But you're with that patient day to day.
You're able to meet that patient's basic needs.
And it kind of allows you to see what the nurses do
in the field.
Or you can always shadow.
You sign a waiver and you're allowed to hang out
for a day with a nurse, in any unit that you prefer,
kind of get an idea of what you're bases are
or if you can do this kind of thing.
You can work with an associate's.
Depending on where you work,
you'll end up either getting a bachelor's
in order to stay there,
or some places still accept just associate's.
So either route, you don't make a difference in pay,
I guess you'd say, there's no starting pay difference.
If you do do an associate's,
I feel like you hit the floor running.
You get more bedside care, more tasky stuff.
You loose some of that theory
that you get in a bachelor's,
but you're able to perform on the same level.
You have to have empathy.
And you have to leave your kind of beliefs at the door.
So if there's something that you don't agree with,
you still have to treat that patient
the same as if you would treat anyone else.
And if you don't get your bias out of the way,
you'll never be able to kind of complete a shift.
And you have to rely on teamwork.
So in order to be a nurse, you have to be a team effort,
because you can't do everything on your own.
You have an aid, you have a charge nurse,
you collaborate with physicians,
physical therapy, many other disciplines,
in order to make that patient
have the best outcome possible.
There's a huge shortage still, in the area.
I think at Luke's alone,
I use Luke's as a reference only because I work there,
there was a 100 openings for nursing.
It might not be what you wanna do,
I mean there are so many different branches
that you can branch off to.
But the jobs are out there.
You can do a job fair.
You can apply online, Monster, Indeed,
they all have you know, applications that you can fill out.