Category: Humans of Health Sciences
Nick Daws, Humans of Health Sciences
July 03, 2019 Written by Nicolette Jimenez and Ashley Barnas | Photo by Ashley Barnas
School of Nursing
B.S. in Nursing
"When I graduated from high school, I graduated valedictorian. I didn't really know what I wanted to do. I was coming home from work one night my senior year and I witnessed a head-on drunk driving accident. I stopped my car and was the first responder for maybe half an hour. I was upset because no one else stopped, no one else called 911 or did anything. That’s when I decided that I wanted to go into emergency healthcare medicine and be a nurse.
Normally, nursing is seen as a feminine profession, now and historically. People don’t expect a dude to be a nurse. As far as advantages go, male nurses are more hireable because we’re a very small subset of nursing.
With the future of healthcare now and as healthcare teams progress, the role of a nurse is increasing – their education, their responsibilities and the power they have as members of the healthcare community."
