Nursing is a healthcare profession focused on caring for individuals, families, and communities throughout life from birth to death. Florence Nightingale established the first nursing school in the world in 1860 and laid the foundation for professional nursing. There are various nursing degree programs from general nursing to PhDs. Nursing offers a rewarding career with opportunities to directly help people's health, learn constantly, and work in diverse settings and specialties. Nurses can work in hospitals, clinics, homes, and many other environments and have flexibility to change settings or advance their career.

3. Nursing is a healthcare
profession focused on
the care of individuals,
families, and
communities so they
may attain, maintain,
or recover optimal
health and quality of
life from birth to death.

4. Florence Nightingale a
celebrated English nurse, writer
came to prominence for her
pioneering work in nursing
during the Crimean War, where
she tended to wounded soldiers.
She was dubbed "The Lady
with the Lamp" after her habit
of making rounds at night. She
laid the foundation of
professional nursing with the
establishment, in 1860, of her
nursing school at St Thomas'
Hospital in London, the first
nursing school in the world.

5. The various courses that
are focused at
preparing a qualified
nurse are :
• General Nursing and
Midwifery.
• Basic B.Sc. Nursing.
• Post Basic B.Sc. Nursing.
• Masters in Nursing.
• P.G. Diploma or
Certificate courses in
Nursing.
• Ph.D. in Nursing.

6. Nursing profession is great to be
considered as you will :
• Directly influence the health and
well-being of other people.
• Never stop learning: about health,
about illness, about people and the
world we live in.
• You will have a range of careers
rolled into one: as you develop you
can diversify and specialize.
• Excellent career opportunities.

8. Nurses work in a large variety of specialties
where they work independently and as part of a
team to assess, plan, implement and evaluate
care.
Nursing duties are manifold and cover a wide
range of functions and responsibilities, that
depends with the level of qualification and the
working environment.

10. They can work in settings like :
• Hospital
• Nursing homes.
• Clinics and Heath Department
• Orphanages and old age homes
• Military (Army, Navy, Air Force
and Marines)
• Community settings i.e. school nurse,
health visitor.
• Industrial houses and factories
• Railways and public sector medical
departments

11. • Training Institutes as educators
• Home care , Palliative care,
hospice
• Public health agencies
• Ambulatory care centers ,extended
care centers
• 0ffices ,corporations ,health-related
industries , occupational settings
• Mental health services
• Private health care providers e.g.
Practitioners
• Prison nurse/ Correctional , de-
addiction.
• Researcher – promoting advances in
health care and health promotion
practice

12. They can diversify into different
areas of nursing practice:
operating room, critical care and
emergency departments, women's
health and mental health. And
there are many sub-specialty
areas such as sports injury
nursing, cancer nursing, cardiac
care, newborn intensive care.

13. Nurses may choose to work in one permanent setting, or
may take short-term assignments as a travel nurse to
fulfill temporary projects for nursing staff
internationally. They can even serve in key government and
elected positions become a nurse practitioner, clinical nurse
specialist, nurse educator, researcher, or a nurse manager.
AS A NURSE THE SKY IS THE LIMIT.