For nurses and other healthcare workers....?

I will be starting nursing school in the Spring and wanted to know how easy or hard would it be for me to really get what I want out of my career as a nurse...





1. I want to do medical work overseas and in poor countries (maybe twice a year), but esp. during a disaster...How hard/easy is it to get into different organizations that will allow me to do this? Will I get paid?


2. I want to be a travel nurse here in the states. I know I have get 2-3 years experiece first though.


3. I would like to start with at least $40,000+ and I want to work in a or near a large city.


4. I want to possibly live and be a nurse in another country for a year or two before I retire.





Can I reach those goals in my nursing career? I realize nowadays that things are changing and that many people are going into nursing and into the healthcare arena, so some things may be harder to achieve than they were in the past.|||yes, this is possible.


I strongly suggest that you work for a University hospital, as this will give you the ICU experience that you will need to be of use in disaster situations. In some domestic disasters, some University hospitals will send disaster medical teams themselves.


If you want to work in another country someday that's great. Make sure you are fluent in another language first!|||Yes, u can def reach your goal. I am a medical assistant and I'm going into my bachelors degree I actually wanna study ultra sound tech. So it's not hard at all it's a lot of studying and knowing your medical terms im not saying it's a piece of cake because it's not. u will come across difficult classes at times, but it's nothing u can't handle|||ER experience (you will need triage skills) is better for disaster. ICU - patients are already stable by the time they are transferred to the unit.