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Tash Jayasinghe
CibbuanoNurse
March 16th 2007 01:17
Nursing is an exciting and rewarding career that provides many opportunities. Nurses are important members of the health care team and their primary role is providing patient care. This can vary from helping a patient eat breakfast to helping deliver a baby.
Working in hospitals, community health clinics, nursing homes, private homes (home care) or in schools, nursing practitioners are instrumental in delivering health services to our communities.
Although both registered nurses and enrolled nurses care for sick, injured or convalescing patients, there is a distinct difference in the focus of their work. With University training, registered nurses can specialise in a long list of clinical areas such as critical care, emergency, theatre or mental health, and can also study to become midwives and deliver babies. Those working in operating rooms help assist in creating spotless and sterile environments.
During the surgical procedure they pass instruments and sponges to surgeons, even counting them to make sure nothing is left inside the patient. They may be required to hold retractors to help stop bleeding or resuscitate patients who have had a cardiac arrest. As managers of patient care, they can also move into areas of staff management and community education.
Enrolled nurses provide basic bedside care for their patients under the direction of registered nurses and doctors. This may include observing and measuring vital signs (taking temperatures and pulse rates), bathing and dressing patients, assisting in wound care, or feeding and helping patients become mobile.
Enrolled nurses (ENs) manage general patient care and rely on registered nurses for advanced nursing care. ENs assist patients with ADLs (activities of daily living - things you do every day, like eating, drinking and showering), provide wound care management and other basic nursing care. Registered nurses (RNs) manage general and advanced patient care. They are also responsible for the supervision of ENs. Advance nursing care may include drug administration (giving needles), or defibrillation (resuscitating using 'paddles').
There's no doubt that nursing practitioners need to be great with people, be excellent communicators and have the skills and empathy to deal with people who are in poor health. Nurses need to also work with a broad range of ethnic and socially diverse patients, so respecting difference and displaying professionalism are vital in this profession.
Hospital based nurses need to be prepared to work shift hours, be physically strong (moving patients) and aware of safety issues such as needle injuries and working with electrical equipment. Be prepared for challenges, excitement and a great sense of job satisfaction.
There are over 70 different positions available to registered nurses. You can work with the Royal Flying Doctors, in emergency nursing, in research, with the Army, or with organisations like Health Direct, where you offer professional advice over the phone,'' says a nursing recruitment officer from a Western Australian hospital.
Most nursing practitioners are employed in hospitals and nursing homes, with the remainder working in a variety of areas, including medical and dental services, business services, other health services and community care. Nurses can also work in doctors' surgeries, youth and women's shelters or school and university health clinics.
In community health centres, nurses give immunisation shots, treat infections and minor injuries, and provide health care and information for parents with newborns and young children and for adults and the aged. Community health nurses also provide educational programs to schools and the community, on things like health and nutrition as well as sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
The starting salary for registered nurses is approximately $41,000 per year and this can go up to $102,000 for a director of nursing. The starting salary for enrolled nurses is approximately $36,000 per year which can increase to $41,600 for those with more experience.
To become a registered nurse you'll need to complete a Bachelor of Nursing.
Working in hospitals, community health clinics, nursing homes, private homes (home care) or in schools, nursing practitioners are instrumental in delivering health services to our communities.
Although both registered nurses and enrolled nurses care for sick, injured or convalescing patients, there is a distinct difference in the focus of their work. With University training, registered nurses can specialise in a long list of clinical areas such as critical care, emergency, theatre or mental health, and can also study to become midwives and deliver babies. Those working in operating rooms help assist in creating spotless and sterile environments.
During the surgical procedure they pass instruments and sponges to surgeons, even counting them to make sure nothing is left inside the patient. They may be required to hold retractors to help stop bleeding or resuscitate patients who have had a cardiac arrest. As managers of patient care, they can also move into areas of staff management and community education.
Enrolled nurses provide basic bedside care for their patients under the direction of registered nurses and doctors. This may include observing and measuring vital signs (taking temperatures and pulse rates), bathing and dressing patients, assisting in wound care, or feeding and helping patients become mobile.
Enrolled nurses (ENs) manage general patient care and rely on registered nurses for advanced nursing care. ENs assist patients with ADLs (activities of daily living - things you do every day, like eating, drinking and showering), provide wound care management and other basic nursing care. Registered nurses (RNs) manage general and advanced patient care. They are also responsible for the supervision of ENs. Advance nursing care may include drug administration (giving needles), or defibrillation (resuscitating using 'paddles').
There's no doubt that nursing practitioners need to be great with people, be excellent communicators and have the skills and empathy to deal with people who are in poor health. Nurses need to also work with a broad range of ethnic and socially diverse patients, so respecting difference and displaying professionalism are vital in this profession.
Hospital based nurses need to be prepared to work shift hours, be physically strong (moving patients) and aware of safety issues such as needle injuries and working with electrical equipment. Be prepared for challenges, excitement and a great sense of job satisfaction.
There are over 70 different positions available to registered nurses. You can work with the Royal Flying Doctors, in emergency nursing, in research, with the Army, or with organisations like Health Direct, where you offer professional advice over the phone,'' says a nursing recruitment officer from a Western Australian hospital.
Most nursing practitioners are employed in hospitals and nursing homes, with the remainder working in a variety of areas, including medical and dental services, business services, other health services and community care. Nurses can also work in doctors' surgeries, youth and women's shelters or school and university health clinics.
In community health centres, nurses give immunisation shots, treat infections and minor injuries, and provide health care and information for parents with newborns and young children and for adults and the aged. Community health nurses also provide educational programs to schools and the community, on things like health and nutrition as well as sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
The starting salary for registered nurses is approximately $41,000 per year and this can go up to $102,000 for a director of nursing. The starting salary for enrolled nurses is approximately $36,000 per year which can increase to $41,600 for those with more experience.
To become a registered nurse you'll need to complete a Bachelor of Nursing.
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