hey y'all it's kevin reese thanks for stopping by my channel in this video i'm going to talk about
why i became a registered nurse and if you haven't checked out my previous video
i highly suggest that you do that my previous videos like why i created youtube channel
kind of like my life story that kind of led me to where i am so i highly suggest that you check that
out because it kind of prefaces this video and in that video i go into details that kind of flow
with that video and they don't necessarily flow with this video so i highly suggest
you check that video out just watch it so to start with i really wanted to help people
beyond just being a personal trainer like i love health and wellness and fitness and like the whole
the whole aspect and idea of it you know just being healthy happy longevity you know living a
happy healthy life and i love being a personal trainer but i knew that i could still do that
if i was an rn like i can still do personal training and i still do assist people with fitness
and diet and stuff like that so that worked out and like i mentioned in my previous video you
know when i was a trainer and assistant in cardiac rehab with blood pressure diabetes class and stuff
it really opened my eyes to how you know vast health and wellness and fitness is yeah i realized
that there was more to health and wellness than just exercise and there was more to being able
to help people other than just you know a list of workout routines and stuff that they could do
there was a lot more involved and i really wanted to learn more about that and and be
able to help people i wanted to learn more in depth about how the body works and really just
wanted to be able to share that and help others and from those classes in the gym i learned that
i really liked helping others not only in the gym as a trainer but i really loved
helping those patients that were in there for cardiac rehabilitation and i really
love patient education i like the fact that i was able to learn this stuff and share it with others
and help them and they understood it i love that they would take what i told them into account
and apply it to their everyday lives and their lives were better because of it and now as a
registered nurse i really love patient education especially if you have someone say it's like
a new onset disease process something that is new to them and if they're really curious and
interested in learning i love teaching i mean let's face it nobody wants to teach somebody
that does not want to learn and let me tell you that registered nurses were no different
another reason that i became a registered nurse is i really wanted a respectable career
you know in my previous video i touched on you know where i work construction and all that
i didn't want to work a minimum wage job the rest of my life you know minimum wage jobs are not
designed to sustain a lifestyle and i knew that i wanted more i knew that i was capable of more and
that i i knew that i wanted to do something that was more rewarding than a minimum wage job or just
doing construction something else i considered when i was thinking about career options
and i decided to become an rn is flexibility yeah i wanted a job that i could do in any city in any
town any state anywhere in the country or the world for that matter you know another deciding
factor for me was job security you know i've often heard it said you know people are always going
to get sick people are always going to die so health care nursing jobs will always be available
and funeral homes will always be open so i know that by becoming a registered nurse that i was
always going to have a job that pretty much any city or town that i went to i could find work if
i had to depending on where i was so job security and being able to have a job those were big
pluses for me now the last thing i will mention that played a part of my decision to become an rn
is money now the reason i mentioned that last is although it is important it should not be a main
deciding factor in you becoming a registered nurse but as far as pay goes you can make a
very comfortable living as a registered nurse so these are 10 states that where registered nurses
earn the most money so california is one of the highest paying at an average of one hundred and
six thousand nine hundred fifty dollars a year new york eighty five thousand six hundred ten
in 10 states where registered nurses earned the least money it looks like the least paying state
is south dakota with an average of 58 490 a year and now i'm assuming that is just a full-time
shift that is not doing any prn at any other hospitals that's not picking up extra shifts
i don't i don't know if that is just day shift without a night shift differential but even
coming in at almost 60 000 a year as the lowest paying state that is still not bad considering
you can do that on a two-year degree most adn or associate degree nursing programs are two years
now a lot of hospitals now are only hiring nurses who have a four-year degree bsn your
bachelor's in the science of nursing but to give you an example what i did is i graduated from a
two-year program at a technical college started working got some experience saved some money
and i went back to school fully online to get my bsn which i was in an accelerated course and
it took me a year and three months to get my bsn so thanks for watching this has just been a quick
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