If you can handle a physically and emotionally challenging career that comes with the extraordinary satisfaction of truly helping people, it just might be the career for you. Nursing focuses on assisting people who are in need of health care. There are hundreds of specialties in nursing that range from pediatric to geriatric and holistic to tradition medicine. The main goal of a nurse, no matter what their specialty, is to help patients attain and keep optimum health. Falling somewhere between a difficult profession and a cause with purpose, nursing promotes quality of living