If you ever thought about becoming a nurse or you a just curious about this job, then this article will interest you. This article will present you what is the job of a nurse, where do nurses can work, how to become a nurse, how much they get paid, some of the dangers involved in the job, when you can retire and how you make difference in the lives of the people you take care.
Nurses are very important when it comes to the healthcare profession. They provide comfort, kindness, and care to patients every day. It is a challenging job, and it requires hard work, dedication, and patience. Even if the job of a nurse can be difficult sometimes, it is the most rewarding experience that somebody can have. By being a nurse, it will help you learn so many things, and you will discover a facet of you that you never have.
Nurses can do many things. In general, they observe patients and conduct assessments, they record patient medical information and symptoms, they update patient files as appropriate, they create a patient care plan with the broader medical team, they administer treatments and medications. Also, nurses perform many techniques such as care of wounds, collecting blood, urine, stool, and other samples for lab work, and they also educate patients and their families throughout the course of treatment.
The job of a nurse can be a really big job. The main purpose of a nurse is to take care of the people that are sick or injured, and they also help prevent disease and injury by promoting a healthy lifestyle. Depending on the specialty of the nurse and the place that they work, the work may vary. On a typical day, the job of a nurse is to assure that all the patients are feeling well by checking their vital signs regularly, by administering medications, by collaborating with other healthcare team members to provide holistic care and by interpreting labs and other diagnostic tests.
The advantage of being a nurse is that you can work in a variety of place. Nurses work in hospitals, long-term care facilities, clinics, schools, corporations, and sometimes even in businesses of their own. You can also be a general nurse. The job is to assist doctors by performing a variety of tasks as needs arise, and will often have secretarial duties as well if they work in HMOs or private offices. Nurses can also be specialized in some area. For example, you can be a surgical nurse, who ensure the sterility of instruments and assist doctors during surgery; obstetric-gynecological nurses, who help to deliver babies; neonatal nurses, who care for newborns and teach new mothers how to feed their babies; nurse anesthetists, who work with anesthesiologists to provide proper sedation for patients; or psychiatric nurses, who care for patients with mental or emotional disorders etc. Also, a new specialty is now available, and it is really recent. If you want, you can also be specialized as a nurse practitioners. The principal job of a nurse practitioner is to make diagnoses and write prescriptions. What's more, if you like to travel, you can also be a travel nurse. By doing this job, you visit some country and help the population that is in the need.
There are many ways to become a nurse. There are two main steps to become a nurse. If you want to become a nurse, you have to do the technique of three years at a college. After your three year, the next step is to pass your National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses, otherwise known as the NCLEX. With this license, you are now registered as a nurse. Also, if you want to be a clinical nurse, you can do your technique at a college, and after, go to the university for two years. You can also do a program of two years at a college and then go to the university for three years. Both paths end up in the same way. Also, if you want to be specialized in an area, the number of year of school may vary.
The average registered nurse salary in Canada is $71,867 per year or $36.85 per hour. Entry-level positions start at $57,304 per year, while most experienced workers make up to $83,168 per year.
To stay up-date, nurses have to follow formations every year. Also, some of the most lucrative careers require training in areas of advanced nursing practice. Those include nurse practitioners, nurse-midwives, nurse anesthetists and clinical nurse specialists. Some programs accept nurses who already hold a graduate or postgraduate degree, while others combine an advanced degree with the necessary clinical training. These nurses provide primary health care with a degree of autonomy that usually only doctors enjoy. Nurse-midwives focus on obstetrics and gynecology and nurse anesthetists provide anesthesia services during surgical procedures. Nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists can choose from a range of specializations, from pediatric and geriatric care to oncology, acute care, gastroenterology or cardiology.
Nurses can be exposed to contagious and infectious diseases including those that can be transmitted through the air (e.g., TB - tuberculosis), blood-borne diseases such as AIDS, hepatitis B and C and hand to hand transmission (e.g., Clostridium difficile). There is also the risk of exposure to multi-drug resistant organisms such as multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus and others. Nurses are also at risk for exposure to novel (new) viruses, such as coronavirus (COVID-19), SARS, etc.
It seems unlikely that robots will take over all the duties of a nurse within our lifetime. However, it is important to upgrade our skills in order to remain attractive for employers as machines begin to fulfill more tasks, and nurses are assigned new responsibilities in their place.
Research indicates that there is an increasing proportion of RNs that are retiring early, many by age 56.
So far, I am in my second year in my Nursing program. I have only one year left to be a nurse. I plan to go to the university after my three years of college to be a clinical nurse. I don't know yet if I want to be specialized in an area in particularity. I have many internships in different departments in the hospital to do, so maybe it will help me find the department that I want to work in the future.