Archive for November 2009
Healthcare industry is one of the fastest growing industries and any profession in the healthcare industry is likely to have better prospects and opportunities than in other types of industries in an economy.
Nursing is one of the ideal choices in the health care industry where the demand for qualified people in the profession are in great demand and the requirement is on the rise with no signs of scarcity over the next few decades, if not more.
There are many ways through which one can get into the nursing profession. However, he or she should have some additional skills or traits, the most important of them being the compassionate heart and the urge and motivation to extend help and assistance to the people in general and the patients in particular.
One can become a Licensed Practical Nurse by enrolling himself or herself into a one-year diploma course offered by many vocational schools and or junior colleges.
Students enrolling to this course need to take up both academic and practical training skills in nursing care. The student is taught the basic concepts in nursing and such other things related to treatment of the patients. They will also be taught about the human anatomy, first aid, nutrition, methods of administering drugs to the patients, and all such related activities including surgical nursing. Apart from this academic knowledge, students are also required to take up practical course of patient care under the supervision of a senior instructor.
The successful completion of this 1-year course will make you eligible to apply for a license to practice as a nurse. You need to take up the licensing examination, normally conducted at a national level by the appropriate authority. On successful completion of the licensing examination, you will be provided with a license to carry out the practice as a Licensed Practicing Nurse.
The profession of nursing is a noble one where you, as a nurse, have the opportunity to save a patient’s life by ensuring that the disease does not kill the patient, and above all, you change the patient to a person once again. In other words, it is the service of the nurse to an ailing patient that helps a patient become a normal person once again.
Do you say that nurse is a savior of the life? Or is the nurse a tormentor?
Let us assume for a while that I come to the hospital as a patient suffering from fever or a viral infection.
As a nurse, what do you do, in the first instance? As per the instruction of the doctor, you, the nurse, make me open the mouth and put a thermometer there without caring whether it would hurt me or not? I need to hold that thermometer in the mouth for the full 60 seconds while you do all other things without caring about me or my inconvenience in holding the thermometer in the mouth. You torment me for the full 60 seconds.
After 60 seconds, the thermometer is taken out and you read out the temperature to the doctor. The doctor then writes out some medicines in the prescription slip. After a couple of minutes, again you are in front of me, this time with a big needle and a small bottle, ready to poke me with the needle at the arm or the buttocks. Thank God – you give me an option nevertheless. Anyhow, you are bent on poking me and causing pain to me with the needle in the name of injection. You do not care about the shivering or the chillness I feel in the a/c room of the doctor. You ask me to unstrip the shirt or show the arm to you. Now, without much concern or care, you use the small cotton to rub the spot and immediately poke the needle. You just do not stop with the poking. You hold the needle in that place there and allow the medicine in the syringe behind the needle to flow through my body – another 30 seconds or so of the time till the needle is poked into the body. If the temperate is more or needs further diagnosis, then you come again to me with a needle and without any concern about my pain, just poke on one of my fingers and suck a good amount of blood – in the name of blood test. And finally, you say it is all part of the treatment to your disease – very cruel is it not?
For just a normal disease of temperature, you, the nurse, torment by poking me with the needle. You also put a thermometer in the mouth without any concern for my suffering or inconvenience. Imagine if I had met with an accident or have a disease, which requires surgery or some other investigations. What would be my state in your hands? I just could not imagine myself. You must no doubt be a tormentor only.
Wait a minute. Why did the nurse do all these things to me – poking me with an injection without caring for my pain or suck blood from me? Had the nurse not done that, he or she would not have been aware of the seriousness of the disease and the consequences of the same if left unattended. The nurse only hurt me with an injection or poked me to get some blood only to assess the gravity of the problem and also to find the right solution to kill the disease and save me from the disease. Had she not killed the disease then, of course in a cruel way tormenting me, the disease would have inevitably killed me.
So, the nurse is not a tormentor by any means. The nurse can always be only a savior.
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Some nursing jobs to consider in United States
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The Registered Nurse (RN) post is one of the lucrative jobs you can get for yourself if you have a passion for the nursing line of career and profession. The reality is that it is not easy to rise above the ranks of that lucrative job opening in the top echelons of the health care service delivery system. What you need to do is to start at the grass roots level and begin with what you can do and achieve. Most of the jobs in the lucrative nursing profession in United States require that the aspirant candidate be well educated and experienced.
You will get many nursing job leads and openings in the newspapers that are advertised by various health cares entities. What you will notice is that most of the job openings state the requirement of critical aspects of academic qualification and the matter of experience. But where would you get the required kind and years of experience if you have nor been attached somewhere? You will need a beginning as you can not grade with experience. Such realities as the foregoing have made nursing career line of Registered Nursing more an more lucrative. This is because the line of profession does not require much to get into.
When you have finished your preliminary examination that qualifies you to perform a nursing job you will be suddenly faced with a whole range of options. What you need to do is to take time and make thoughtful considerations in terms of what you will really want to get into on a fulltime career thrust. You will be face with various options such as the CNA route or to take your studies further towards your dream nursing job. One of the best considerations you can make is to get into the nursing job as a Registered Nurse. When you have your registered nurse qualifications and licensing then you have world of opportunities wide open to you.
What you also need to furnish yourself with all are the details you need in order to make well informed decisions Google up for the kind of RN job opportunities that you are looking for. Remember that after getting the idea of the RN job that you want you will need to then locate vacancies around and then pursue the kinds of job openings and leads that interest you. You need to be careful not to get pigeonholed about RN opportunities. Even beyond the realm of where you stay you can get good opportunities if you have the flexibly to work anywhere. The best place to conduct your search is to visit as many nursing job directories as you can. The advantage with searching over the internet is that you will always have the advantage of narrowing down your search to that which you really want. The moment you identify what you want make haste and get in touch with all the relevant authorities so that you can send your resumes around and get into the job market.
