Lately my posts have been on the more serious side, so today I thought I’d lighten things up. There are some funny, surprisingt and interesting facts that I found on Scrubsmag.com and hopefully it brings a smile to your face and makes you think. As a student in an accelerated RN to BSN program, sometimes you just need to sit back and laugh at life.
Here are some of my favorite facts:
• There are more than 5.5 million nurses and nurses aids in the United States. That’s more than the population of 30 states and 5 times the size of the U.S. Army.
• 6% of RNs are men and 85% are Caucasian
• Nurses have more on the job injuries than construction workers
• The national hourly wage for an RN is $31.31. The highest paid are in San Jose, CA with $50.19 an hour and the lowest paid live in Johnstown, PA with a wage of $20.41 per hour.
• There are more than 135,000 job openings for nurses currently in the country. By 2020, it is projected that that number will rise to one million.
• In 1846 the first hospital training school for nurses, the Institute for Protestant Deaconesses, was established in the town of Kaiserwerth, Germany.
• According to a recent World Health Organization report, the United States spends more money, as a ratio of GNP, on health care than any country, followed closely by Lebanon and Zimbabwe.
• One out of every four registered nurses works part time
• The first nursing school in history dates back to 250 B.C. and was located in India.
• A Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN) takes about 4 to 5 years
• About three out of every five registered nurses work in hospitals
• If you see a nurse smiling when things go wrong, she is probably going off duty
• May 8th is National Student Nurses’ Day
• In the various U.S. Military branches, approximately one-third of all nurses are male
So did you count how many of these facts you didn’t know? There is a long and rich history to nursing, and with online RN to BSN programs available, the methods may be changing but the compassion and desire to help people remains the same.
To read the complete articles mentioned in this post, please visit
http://scrubsmag.com/nursing-stats-youve-never-heard-of-until-now/
and
http://scrubsmag.com/101-nursing-fun-facts/
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