This article can be very useful for you is you want to learn more about nursing. If you are a future nursing student, if you don't know what a nurse do during her day or if it is a job that interests you, then you will definitely enjoy this article. You will learn what is a typical day of a nurse, the salary or where a nurse can work.
A nurse is a professional healthcare. She helps to treat some disease and prevent them. A nurse also take care of sick people. Being a nurse is very rewarding because we are help patient every day. A nurse can work in different sectors.
A nurse can do a lot of things in different department. She can assist doctor during a surgery. She can also help deliver a baby, work with premature baby, with newborns, with kids form 0 to 18 years old or with the new moms to teach them how to breastfeed. A nurse can also work at the opposite with the elderly or adult. She can also choose to work in psychiatry. Some nurses can go at a patient house to give him care. In short, nurses can do a lot of things.
It is hard to say what a nurse do on a typical day, because most of the time, it can be very different from day to day.To describe in general a day in a life of a day shift nurse, she will first take a report from the night shift to to be able to ensure good continuity of care. She will also read the patient's file and make a plan for her day. After that, she will do her morning round and go see each of her patients, take their vital signs, take the level of blood sugar for diabetic patient and give the medications. She after has a break lunch. After, it is time for the afternoon round and finish what she did not have time to do in the morning, answer patient question, and she will do her charting. At the end of the shift, she will give her report of the day to the next shift, and she can finally go home and rest. It is most of the time an 8-hour shift, but some hospital recently experimenting having 10 to 12-hour sift for 3 or 4 days a week.
Nurses can work in various places. Of course, nurses can work in the hospital, but also in many other places. In fact, as a nurse, you can work in a long-term care facilities, in a private or public clinic, at a school, in corporations. Sometimes, depending on the studies of the nurse, some can work for their own business. A nurse can also work in prisons.
In college, you can do 2 years of Social Sciences and after go to the university for 3 years in nursing. The other option is doing a technique in college in nursing for 3 years. After the 3 years, you will become a nurse. You can stop there or keep going and go to university for another 2 years. In all Nursing programs, there are a lot of internships.
The salary of a nurse can vary a lot depending on the position she occupies, for example, if she is the assistant or the head of the department. The salary may also vary depending on the shift or the day worked. For example, nurses may have bonuses for evening or night shifts. For example, in Quebec for a registered nurse, the lowest salary is $24,25 per hour. Fun fact, it is one of the lowest wages compared to other provinces in Canada. The median wage is $36,10 and the higher wage is $45.
A nurse as some formation to complete every year.
The danger depends where you work. For example, a nurse who is working in jail will be more dangerous than a nurse who is working in the hospital.
The chances are very small because we need humans to care care of other humans.
After 5 years out, a lot of nurses leave the profession because they are exhausted or because of budget cut that impact the quality of nursing care. Nurses who continue to work in the same position after 5 years must be flexible and strong. After ten years in the profession, for nurses who are still working will find themselves quit the public hospital for the private care, because the of the more regular hours and a better atmosphere. Also, several nurses have obtained senior positions, such as supervisor or assistant
I am now finishing my last semester in nursing at Montmorency College. I will go to university in the winter 2023 for 2 more years. After that, l will officially be a nurse. My dream is to work for St-Justine hospital with babies.
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