The Career of a Nursing


Introduction

If you ever thought about becoming a nurse, this article is for you.


What is it like to be a nurse?

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.


What do nurses do?

Nurses help prevent disease and injury and care for the sick and injured.


What do nurses do on a typical day?

The nurses do long shifts, administrating medicines to patients and execute various other tasks by insisting doctors.


Where do nurses work?

Nurses work in hospitals, long-term care facilities, clinics, schools, corporations, and sometimes even in businesses of their own.


How can I become a nurse?

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.


How much money do nurses make?

The salary starts from 24$ per hour and the average salary records at 37$ per hour.


What kinds of additional training do nurses need?

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.


What are the dangers of being a nurse?

Nurses can be exposed to contagious and infectious diseases. Such as TB, AIDS, Hepatitis B And C etc.


What are the chances that nurses will be replaced by robots soon?

Even though in medical we use various machines that makes tasks easy, but it's unlikely that the nurses are gonna replace by robots.


What age do nurses retire at?

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.


Conclusion

As you can see, being a nurse requires at least a three-year college degree, on the job training, and empathy.


More by this author


Sources and RADARS ratings

Source: https://www.princetonreview.com/careers/100/nurse

Rationale: to inform or educate

Authority: recognized author

Date: recently published

Accuracy: probably true

Relevance: relevant for this document

Sources: cites sources


Source: https://www.quebec.ca/en/employment/trades-occupations/exploring-trades-and-occupations/3012-nurses

Rationale: to inform or educate

Authority: government

Date: recently published

Accuracy: probably true

Relevance: relevant for this document

Sources: no sources cited


Statistics

Word count: 294

Error count: 5

**************************************************************