If you ever thought about becoming a nurse, this article is for you.
Nursing is a mentally and physically demanding job, but at the end of the day you feel amazing by helping those who were in need.
Nurses help prevent disease and injury and care for the sick and injured.
The nurses do long shifts, administrating medicines to patients and execute various other tasks by insisting doctors.
Nurses work in hospitals, long-term care facilities, clinics, schools, corporations, and sometimes even in businesses of their own.
To become a nurse, there`s few options. The two-year program that takes place in a junior or community college combined with some hospital training. The career program, run entirely by a hospital or school and based solely on nursing, it takes three years to complete. The longest is the BSN program, which awards candidates a bachelor’s degree of science studies at university.
The salary starts from 24$ per hour and the average salary records at 37$ per hour.
During the course of studies, students gets the chance to do the intership. At the beginning of 4th semester, they can start working as part time which allows them to get work experience. The nurses could get master's degree and specialize in a specific field for example psychiatric nurses.
Nurses can be exposed to contagious and infectious diseases. Such as TB, AIDS, Hepatitis B And C etc.
Even though in medical we use various machines that makes tasks easy, but it's unlikely that the nurses are gonna replace by robots.
The retirement varies from province to province, in Quebec, there's no specific age to retire in nursing, so they follow designated retirement age which is anytime between 60th and 65th birthday.
As you can see, being a nurse requires at least a three-year college degree, on the job training, and empathy.
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