| As you grew, if you ever felt that your heart calls out to heal wounds of the stray animals or simply felt the senses to hold the hand of an elderly person to help him cross the street or then the noblest of all professions nursing as a career option could be the one where your passion is. Nursing is a specific art that protects and prevents against illness and injury, alleviates suffering through treatment, is a balm to aching souls and advocates care of families, individuals and community in a broader sense. According to BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics US), there are almost 2.5 million nurses, the largest workforce in the clinical health care industry. And, with the growing health care industry and mushrooming of health care centers, hospitals and corporate care systems you can only expect the numbers to rise. Roles and responsibilities of nurses
The roles and responsibilities of nurses are manifold and the work of a nurse depends on the qualification, skill set, and given situation. Nurses work in tandem with the doctors. If doctors diagnose diseases, nurses ensure that the treatment is administered under proper care and guidance. For a successful recuperation of a patient, nursing plays a very vital role. Nursing encompasses a wide gamut from providing hygiene to administering injections, from updating medical records of the patients to setting up operating equipments in an operation theater and several other chores such as pre-surgical preparation to post-operative care. There are different types of nursing career options with unique set of responsibilities such as: Hospital nursing: In these nurses are assigned for specific areas such as maternity, pediatric, surgery, intensive care, rehabilitative and others. Public health nursing: In this field nurses are trained to work in government health care centers and even in private clinics to provide with basic health care services to the local population. These nurses work mostly in the semi-urban and rural areas; arranging for immunization, health screening, and blood pressure checking, etc. Industrial Nursing: This nursing is restricted to an industrial area and the nurses are responsible for taking care and providing with emergency services to people working/residing in that area. Other areas include psychiatric nursing, pediatric nursing, armed forces nursing. Another major avenue of nursing as a career option is also working as an educator. In this area as a nurse one can teach as well as administer educational programs to keep the nurses on duty abreast with modern technology and latest innovative methods of caring. One can also work as Nurse Administrators and Executives who basically works and monitors safety and compliance standards under Occupational Safety and Health Act and also assess work place environment to determine potential risk and hazards. The latest career opportunity in nursing that is growing is to work as a travel nurse. The... | 