Nurses eat their own and the hours suck too. If someone can handle the hours, the abuse from fellow coworkers,etc. then great. The profession has great money but the people in it can be very intimidating. Plus don't ever make the mistake of saying, " Yes I want a nursing job because one day I really want to be a doctor!"(((shudder))).
Money in nursing has not gone up much at all in the last ten years, just like in other professions. Don't let those sucker ads with big promises fool you.
The money isn't better, the hours are worse, the responsibility greater and the liability is nutz.
Like every other business, healthcare values cheap labor, not great experienced workers.
There are millions of educated nurses in the US. If they were paid what the job should be paid, they would come and they would stay.
"Nurses eat their own....."
As a nurse since 1986, I refused to work in a hospital.
Most DOCTORS are complete A**holes and treat the nurses like *hit.