Yes. At Wockhardt Institute of Nursing we understand that some students are sharp but others can be made sharp. This belief has lead us to develop our mentoring system at the Institute. Our students are permitted to meet their teacher to discuss their doubts. Performance feedback to our students is given periodically and in most encouraging manner. The results are visible, students are enjoying their lectures, class attendance is at peak and overall performances of the batches have improved.

Nursing is no longer the bastion of lady nurses. In last five years the scene has changed and now more and more male candidates are opting for a nursing career and are being successful at it also. Female nurses are exclusively needed in labour room and maternity ward. Except these areas perhaps male nurses are needed everywhere else. Especially in psychiatry (where there is a potential of facing a violent patient) and emergency (where speed and a lot of physical stamina is needed) areas health care industry needs male nurses. The male to female ratio of nursing students has reached 1:3 in some schools/colleges and steadily increasing as of now.

Perhaps the next best alternative to opt for is nursing. Though both fields are different they have some similarity and your background in biology and chemistry subjects will be of immense help to you. If you consider other facts you will see that nursing has some advantages loaded in its favour. It takes only four years to complete a degree course in nursing. Compare this time duration with the duration to do a specialized course in medicine which is at least twice as much. Secondly to complete this course it does not cost you as much as the medicine course. By joining a course in nursing therefore, you can pursue a worthwhile career and start earning as early as when you are only 21 years old. You save time and money and enjoy a good career by opting for nursing.

To give you an over view nurses work to promote health, prevent disease, and help patients cope with illness. They are advocates and health educators for patients, families, and communities. When providing direct patient care, they observe, assess, and record symptoms, reactions, and progress; assist physicians during treatments and examinations; administer medications; and assist in convalescence and rehabilitation. Nurses also develop and manage nursing care plans; instruct patients and their families in proper care; and help individuals and groups take steps to improve or maintain their health.

As you know now nursing is a very diverse job. Not all nurses do all these works mentioned above at a time. Job profile varies according to the place of work. Also job profile changes with seniority. Senior nurses are assigned jobs that demand more administrative or managerial skills like recommending nurses for promotions or evaluating success of a new training program. A junior nurse is usually assigned with direct patient care

If you have not understood how a work setting (place) does affect the nature of job here is an example. Nurses at hospitals (place of work) provide bedside nursing care to patients like recording symptoms, reactions and progress in treatments and help patient to recover from illness. Public health nurses work in government and private agencies, schools, retirement communities (noticed change of work place?). They work with community leaders, teachers, parents and physicians and instruct individuals, families and communities in health education, disease prevention, nutrition and child care. Instead of administering care to the individual, their mission is to enhance the overall health of the community at large. Here nurses play a role more of an educator or “a change harbinger” than a nurse as a care giver.

A nurse needs discipline, patience, responsibility, punctuality, commitment and dedication to succeed in the profession. The job requires a lot of hard work, stamina, alertness of mind, adaptability to follow difficult time schedules, ability to think in crisis, good team spirit etc. Apart from possessing these qualities, the persons willing to take up this as profession, should be calm, pleasant, compassionate, understanding and should have the instinct to help and serve the needy people without getting sentimentally attached.

Do you know that more than 60% of vacancies advertised in health care sector are for nursing? By any count this is a large percentage and indicates the number of opportunities available for nurses. As per World Health Organisation norms there is a shortage of 2.8 million qualified nurses in India. (TOI, March 17, 2008) There is a huge gap between number of nurses that educational sectors can produce and what health care sector demands.

Not only numbers of opportunities are high, the pay and growth opportunities are also good. Several factors decide the pay structure- qualification, specialization, experience and the place of work. A graduate nurse with right attitude and aptitude can start with a salary package between Rs.8,000 to Rs.12,000 per month. Trained Nurses’ Association of India, a group protecting the interest of registered nurses, is lobbying with the Government to provide a salary structure to nurses at par with some other government officials. With this happening you can expect further hike in salary.

Shortage of qualified nurses has lead to competition among the employing institutions to attract them. As a result nurses are not only getting better pay packets. Employers are ensuring better working condition and opportunity for on job advanced training to retain and attract them. These facts have made nursing profession more attractive.

A compassionate, willing to learn and hard working person is best suited for this kind of job and if you have these traits then you will enjoy and progress in this profession.

It is true that nurses from India are in demand abroad, especially in the US, the UK, Canada and other European countries. With shortage of nurses in these countries becoming acute over time this demand is likely to increase further. Depending upon qualification and work experience the salary for registered nurses ranges between US$ 46,000- US$57,000 per annum. The best part is that nurses from India are eligible for Green Card and enjoy same perks as their counterparts.

Nurses are willing to migrate to these countries because of the money, the quality of life and for the training opportunities to stay ahead in their profession. Health care industry of these countries prefer Indian nurses over others for their English speaking ability, skills and dedication to work and adaptability to new environment. It is a win-win situation for both.

First you need to be a registered nurse in India before you can go abroad. You also need to pass other examinations like CGFNS, NCLEX-RN and IELTS. There are several institutes who exclusively recruit nurses for US hospitals. They assist and provide complete details to nurses interested in migrating to US/abroad.