This article is useful because it explains all the possibilities of career that a nurse can have, the different programs to become a nurse and the advantages to continue to study to have a better diploma. Also, you can see which environments you prefer to work and if it is a job that has a lot of opportunities to stay in few years even though the advancement of technology. This is nice for teenagers that are looking for their future job.
The main goal for a nurse is to prevent disease and injury and to take care of patients that are sick and injured. The job varies according to each specialization. At the hospital, you can assist doctors in their task or in surgery, do secretarial duties, sterilize instruments, deliver babies, take care of newborns and help new mothers in their new job by instructing them how to breastfeeding, give proper sedation and to help patients with their mental disorders. You can also work in the community by doing preventive education and teaching some health-related topics with various people. A nurse can also do private duty nurse, witch mean take care the only one patient all day, and look after patients in palliative care (hospice nurses). If you get more advanced degrees, you can treat some ailments, set fractures, diagnoses and give prescriptions. If you like to have some duties as a boss, you can become department heads, and supervisors, and you will look that the other nurses if they take care well of their patients. To become a director of nursing can also be a good alternative because you will have to establish standards to maintain the patient care, manage the department’s budget and tell other care setting employees about nursing issues. Usually, nurses work eight hours per day call shifts. Depending on the employer, they can work ten to twelve hours by shifts. In the Canadian Army, the domain choices are similar. You can work on the clinical and patient care delivery, health services policy development, administration, training, and education.
As a nurse, there is so much possibility of environments to work. For example, a registered nurse can work in hospital, clinics, schools and long-term care facilities. Depending on where you work, your job won’t be the same. Also, if you like challenges and adventures, you can be a nurse in the army, and you will work for them in hospitals and clinics with other medical specialist members. You can also be deployed on another country to help. For example, following the earthquakes of Haiti in 2010, some Canadian nurses came in this country to help with wounded citizens.
There are multiple possibilities how to become a nurse. One of them is to do two years in a junior or community college with some internships at the hospital. Another one is to do a diploma program of three years made by a hospital or a school that centered only on nursing. The longest one is to do the BSN program. This is for students that have a bachelor’s degree of science at a college or university that took four or five years of study. However, they have to pass a national licensing exam to become registered nurse and be able to practice. The last possibility needs only one year of training, and you can be a LPN, which means licensed practical nurse. However, to work in the Canadian army, you absolutely need a university diploma and to be a registered Nurse where you live so in a Canada province or territory.
The chances are low because to give to good treatments and explanations, you need to have good communication skills. It is important to be able to listen carefully to the patient to help him the best you can provide him a better recovery.
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