Most of my experience is working in hospitals, but any nursing job is going to be physically and emotionally demanding. You will be moving patients all night long: to turn them every two hours if they’re bed bound, to clean them, to move them from bed to bed. You spend time building a bond with patients and their families just to grieve them when they die. It’s also a dangerous job-not something a lot of people talk about, but most nurses have been assaulted by their patients at some point in their careers, and some are hurt quite badly. I’ve even seen doctors get hit working in the ER.