1. Demographic Profile: Gender, State, Class of study, Family income, Literate members in the family, type of community.

2. Self-Administered Questionnaire: It consists of five questions

1. Have you attended NEET before joining nursing?

2. Was Nursing Profession your first choice as a career?

3. Was it your own choice to join this profession?

4. Why did you choose the Nursing Profession?

5. Are you satisfied with the decision you made.

Validity of Self-administered questionnaire: After developing the questionnaire in the google form and it was validated by 10 experts.

Method of data collection: After getting Ethical Clearance, the google form was shared all over India through the mail and WhatsApp groups.

superior to nurses," said Anant Bhan, global health, health policy, and bioethics researcher. [10]. There is a myth in India that nurses work as assistants of doctors as because nurses are frequently depicted as doctors' assistants in the media, television, and movies, which influences the public perception of nurses.[10]. 81.8% of students chose this profession on their own. After taking admission 90.4% of students were satisfied with the profession.15.4% by inspiration from a known nurse in their family/relatives.30.1% for Job Security, and 10.9% by inspiration from the nurses working in a hospital/community. 6.1% by word of mouth from others,6.4% by Family/peer pressure.

8.3% chose the nursing profession by thinking that they will get respect like doctors in their community.35.3% by their own choice to serve people in health care need,12.2% chose because they can’t afford private MBBS college fees,13.5% chose to get a job abroad and 0.3% to help others in need.

The World Health Organization has acknowledged that the hard work and selfless service provided by India's health workers, including nurses and midwives, have undoubtedly contributed to the country's impressive 31.15 percent recovery rate. Nurses described their difficulties in keeping their charges and themselves safe on a COVID-19 repatriation flight, in hospitals and ICUs, providing antenatal care, elderly care, and psychosocial support in the context of COVID-19, and, for one nurse, being quarantined for two weeks after caring for patients who tested positive for the virus.[11].

Migrant-friendly health-care policies. India, which has the most medical colleges in the world (541), is one of the largest exporters of healthcare workers to the developed world, which includes countries in Europe, the Gulf region, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel. According to OECD data from 2017, there were 69,000 doctors from India working in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Australia, as well as 56,000 Indian nurses working in these four countries. After the Philippines, India is the world's largest source of nurses, and they have been offered higher pay and benefits since the outbreak of the pandemic.[12].

There is no doubt that women make up a larger proportion of the nursing

Recommendation

1. Find out the reason for job satisfaction among nurses and undervalued by society and how to stop brain drain by higher authorities what is the role of the Nursing manager to motivate the young generation

2. To close these gaps and myths, more investment in health infrastructure, professional colleges, and technical education is needed, as well as policies that improve the capacity and quality of the health workforce.

3. Health directorates of the states where the state nurse’s registration council works must be headed by a nurse in an executive role or as director in chief of the councils. So that nurses must be strengthened.

4. Nurses must be given equal opportunity to head prestigious institutions like AIIMS, PGIs, etc as Directors and Chiefs of the Health Care Facility.

5. Governments and people must come forward and debunk all the myths related to the profession and try to make this profession lucrative and the first choice (parallel to doctors because it is seen that most nurses once wanted to be doctors) so that people may look up to it and want to become one.

6. To improve the public image of nurses and midwives by highlighting their contribution toward an effective healthcare delivery

7. To gather the highest levels of political support by raising the issues to move the nursing and midwifery agenda in the current pandemic and immediate future.