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A career in nursing is a devotion to assisting those people who are ill and need to be taken care of. To become a nurse one must become qualified in health sciences and be able to have the patience to deal with all type of people. Nurses looks closely at the patience and keep an eye on them to insure that all of them are doing fine and receiving the best care that the nurses could possibly give them. Wanting to become a nurse one must have the strength, courage, dedication, motivation, and lots of hard work. As caretakers of children, family, and community, it was natural that women were the nurses, the caregivers, as human society evolved. Nursing may be the oldest known profession in the world. The Civil War gave enormous boost to the building of hospitals and the development of nursing as a credentialed profession that was led to greater respect for nurses, something that the congresses acknowledge in the year of 1872. Linda Richards was America’s first professional trained nurse. Like most educational institutions during that time, the schools did not admit African Americans, and the informally trained black woman who nursed during the Civil War. The war was served as the beginning of moving the profession from the home to the hospitals and clinics. “There was an explosion of nursing schools in the late nineteenth century.”(www.nwhm.org) Most of the schools were associated with hospital. In the past decade how nurses look has also changed. “Instead of wearing nurses caps, which were a tribute to nuns who were the original nurses, today’s nurses look different than those nurses from many years ago.”(www.nursegroup.com) Over the past years the number of male in the nursing pro... ... middle of paper ... ...n the world today and people need all of the help and care that they can get. Nursing has changed over the years; however, what hasn’t changed is the dedication and compassion of the nursing profession. Works Cited Bureau of Labor Statistic, U.S.Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2014-15 Edition, Registered Nurses, on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/ooh/healthcare/registered-nurses.htm(visited May19, 2014) Wednesday, January 8, 2014 “Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Careers,” About.com Health Careers. N.P., n.d. Wed, 19 May2014 “Registered Nurse RN.” Registered Nurse RN. N.P., n.d. Wed. Wed. 18 May 2014 http://www.registerednursern.com/ “Registered Nurse (RN) |explorehealthcareers.org. N.P., 2012. Wed. 19 May 2014 American Nurse Association. N.P. 2014 Wed 19 May 2014 http.//nursingworld.org)