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CAREERS
Profile of a Nurse and the Profession
Wally Tesfa
Residential
&
Commercial
Realtor
M u lti-M illio n
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Northwest Properties
1730 NE 10th Ave.
Portland, OR 97212
503 281-4040
wtesfa@pru-nw.com
pru-nw.com
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HOME OFFICES:BLOOMINGTON,
ILLINOIS
ERNEST J. HILL, JR.
Agent
6527 NE MLK, Jr. Boulevard
Suite A
Portland, OR 97217
Registered Nurse Regina Blake goes over the computer files at Legacy Emanuel hospital.
P hoto by M ark W ashington /T hf . P ortland O bserver
to new employees in the nursing
division and tending to patients.
Blake normally works between 36
to 48 hours per week.
For those considering this pro
fession, a 2-year Associate de
gree in Nursing is the basic re
quirement.
After ten years o f work experi
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T he P ortland O bserver
Regina Blake, a Registered
Nurse for 36 years, currently
w o rk s at L eg acy E m an u el
Hospital’s Surgical Unit in north
east Portland. She loves the diver
sity o f her duties: helping to teach
computer documentation system
ence, an average wage for nurses
is around $25 per hour. Pay varies,
depending upon the number of
years worked and the hospital
system that a nurse works for.
Nationwide, there is a great
demand for nurses in the field,
especially with large numbers of
nurses from the Baby Boom era
retiring and those who leave out
of disillusionment with the pro
fession.
According to Blake, for any
one interested in becoming a
nurse, she highly recommends
getting experience first as a Certi
fied Nursing Assistant to get a
good “feel” for the work.
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