Career Opportunities for Nurses
March 27, 2009 by Rn2b
Filed under General Nurse Information, Medical Assistant (MA), Nurse Programs
Career Opportunities for Nurses
Nursing education can provide you with different careers in life. If you think there’s not much a nurse can do, well think again. Any schools, hospitals, and even other offices hire nurses in their company since care and medical attention are unpredictable and might be needed anytime of the day.
Most clinics in schools hire nurses since it is evident that young people are more prone to accidents and injuries. Schools need to be ready in such events where students might get in to a fight, trip on the stairs, fall on the swing, or even bump each other’s head while running. Kids do a lot of accident prone activities that makes nurses a must-have in a school environment. I’ve never seen any school without a nurse; even those who have smaller population still hire a nurse to give medical attention even to teachers who experience headache during the day.
Nursing education has been popular for most students nowadays since they are seeing the opportunities of being a nurse. One can be a mid-wife nurse, pediatric nurse or a children’s nurse, school nurse, nutritionist on patient’s in the hospitals to ensure that the food they are taking are the right one for them, hospital nurses, and a lot more.
Those who have the passion of giving care and attention to other people’s needs will surely be a great nurse. It is not hard to learn as long as you are determined.
Nursing education will lead you to a bright future where you can provide care to other people.
The Different Types of Nursing Programs
March 26, 2009 by Rn2b
Filed under Nurse Practitioner (NP), Nurse Programs
The Different Types of Nursing Programs
Nursing Education is not limited, in fact almost every universities and colleges offer Bachelor of Science in Nursing since a lot of people get sick everyday and a many of them get confined in hospitals and nursing homes for medical attention.
If you want to work as a nurse in hospitals and not just houses for care giving, then you should get a diploma that will allow and certify you to work in hospitals. Nowadays, those people who want to work in hospitals as a nurse get registered. They take a nursing licensure exam and if they pass they get to be a registered Nurse. Registered nurses are the ones who assist doctors and manage equipments in the hospitals; their task is not just limited to care giving alone. Most of the time, only those who have studied a four-year college program in nursing gets to pass the licensure examination for registered nurses so be sure you have the proper nursing education to back you up.
If you want to go farther with your nursing education, I suggest you take up a masters program in the fields of nursing so that you can be an advanced practice registered nurse. This means you are able to specialize in a certain field therefore attaining levels such as Certified Nurse Midwife, Certified Nurse Specialist for Psychiatric/Mental Health, and a lot more.
If you have to heart in giving care to other people, then taking the different nursing programs will probably do your career good.
The Highest Level of Nursing Practice
March 24, 2009 by Rn2b
Filed under General Nurse Information, Nurse Practitioner (NP)
The Highest Level of Nursing Practice
The topmost rank among the levels of nursing practice is to have a PhD; you can only attain this by studying a doctorate degree in Nursing. You cannot just attain this just by skipping other degrees, you should first consider taking a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree before proceeding to a doctorate degree.
Of course if you’re a nurse, it feels better to be a RN or a registered nurse; you can get that after passing the nursing licensure exam that is offered for graduating nursing students. But wouldn’t it feel so much better and more prestigious if you were carrying a PhD badge? To have a PhD is never easy; it entails determination, discipline and diligence. If you are planning to take a Doctor of Nursing Practice level, be sure you know what you’re getting in to because graduating with a PhD is not as easy as bachelor’s and master’s degree. The course normally includes clinical characteristic of nursing than academic study. This means that you go under advanced leadership practice; you apply what you’ve learned for you to become an advanced practice nurses.
There are several doctorate practices for nursing. You can take Doctors of Medicine or MD, or if you want to be more specific and you want to be a dentist, then I suggest you take Doctors of Dental Medicine. Other schools who offer doctorate degree have Doctor of Pharmacy, Doctors of Psychology, and a lot more. It’s your choice what you want to excel in. Surely, to have a doctorate degree will earn you respect and recognition in your workplace and everywhere you go.