Why Choose a Nursing Career?
Nursing offers an array of opportunities. From work environment to specialty, the choices are vast.
- Choose the work environment that works best for you - hospital, school, research, outpatient clinic, information technology, medical group, or home health.
- Choose a clinical specialty - operating room, labor and delivery, medical-surgical, oncology, pediatrics, critical care, or mental health, among others.
- Work with children or adults, or the whole spectrum of patients.
Getting Started - Web Resources
Choose Nursing
www.choosenursing.com
Information for young people on the nursing profession and nursing scholarships
Discover Nursing
www.discovernursing.com
Information on the nursing profession, nursing associations/organizations, nursing programs, and nursing scholarships
Nurses for a Healthier Tomorrow
www.nursesource.org
A coalition of nursing and health care organizations working together to conduct a communications campaign to attract people to the nursing profession.
Sutter Center for Health Professions
Sacramento, CA
www.scc.losrios.edu/nuring/extendedcampus.html
A unique, tuition-free opportunity offered through Sacramento City College Associate Degree Nursing Program (Extended Campus) funded by the Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region. Students will come to understand that nursing requires a holistic approach to caring for people at all levels of the health-illness continuum. Multiple education tracks are available to meet the needs of those entering the program at varying levels of experience and education.
- An Associate Degree in Nursing, approved by the California State Board of Registered Nursing, and an LVN to RN career mobility program are offered.
Updated 2-8-08
