Career as Nursing
Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care, training, and scope of practice. Nurses practice in a wide diversity of practice areas with a different scope of practice and level of prescriber authority in each. Many nurses provide care within the ordering scope of physicians, and this traditional role has come to shape the historic public image of nurses as care providers. However, nurses are permitted by most jurisdictions to practice independently in a variety of settings depending on training level. In the postwar period, nurse education has undergone a process of diversification towards advanced and specialized credentials, and many of the traditional regulations and provider roles are changing.
Job Profile
- Assessing and planning nursing care requirements
- Providing pre- and post-operation care
- Monitoring and administering medication and intravenous infusions
- Taking patient samples, pulses, temperatures and blood pressures
- Writing records
- Supervising junior staff
- Organizing workloads
- Providing emotional support to patients and relatives
- Tutoring student nurses
Skills required
- Good health and fitness
- Caring and compassionate nature
- Excellent teamwork and people skills
- Observational skills
- Ability to use initiative
- Ability to deal with emotionally charged and pressured situations
- Verbal and written communication skills
- Resilience
- Stamina
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
- Nurse anesthetists
- Registered nurses
- Nurse practitioners
- Clinical nurse
- Specialists
- Nursing assistant
- Psychiatric nurses
- Travel nurses
Earnings
- Range of typical starting salaries: £20,000-£24,000 per annum
- Nurses concerns with experience typically earn £25,000-£35,000 per annum
Recruiting Companies
Hospitals
How do I get there?
Option 1:
Bachelors degree in Nursing
Pathway Courses
Where to study?
- Abertay University
- Alamo Colleges - San Antonio College
- California Baptist University
- California State University, Bakersfield
- Cape Breton University
- college of New Caledonia
- Edge Hill University
- Edinburgh Napier University
- Fanshawe College,Canada
- Glasgow Caledonian University
- Kingston University
- Klaipeda State College
- Langara College
- Lincoln University
- Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
- Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology
- Manchester University
- McGill University
- Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Morehead state University
- Otago Polytechnic
- Radford University
- Ryerson University
- Sacred heart university
- Samuel Merritt University
- Shoreline Community College
- Southeast Missouri State University
- Southern Institute of technology
- Southern Utah University
- St. Lawrence College
- Swansea University
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- The University of Texas at Austin
- Thompson Rivers University
- University of Derby
- University of Fraser Valley
- University of Iowa
- University Of Limerick
- University of Lincoln
- university of LUHS
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- UNIVERSITY OF PECS
- University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences
- University of Portsmouth
- University of Rhode Island
- University of San Diego
- Witchita State University