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Nursing In 1992 alone, about 90,000 people were licensed as registered nurses, joining 2.2 million, other registered nurses in the nations largest health care profession (Frederickson 5). This is largely due to these new and rapidly expanding opportunities that the nursing profession has continued to grow throughout the 1990’s (Frederickson 6). It is no secret that hospitals are downsizing and nurses are being replaced by less skilled, less costly, unlicensed assistant personnel in an attempt to deal with these fiscal realities (Frederickson 9). A career in nursing requires hard work and extensive schooling, but is rewarding and challenging. In 1992, about two-thirds of employed registered nurses worked in hospitals but nearly ten percent of registered nurses worked in community or public health settings, including health departments, visiting nurse services, non hospital home health services, and substance abuse outpatient facilities, among others (Frederickson 11). Almost eight percent of registered nurses worked in ambulatory care settings, most of them physician’s offices, nurse-based practices, freestanding clinics, health maintenance organizations, and mixed professional practice groups (Frederickson 11).
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