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Well, as long as I can remember I was a sick child and, I figured that I wanted to be a nurse someone who was always helping people and that at a point of time in my life hey helped me. Despite, that I was a sick child I enjoy working with people and helping them as well, I have a lot of patience, and I’m very comfortable with a work environment like that. Nursing is a health care profession that involves taking care of another person in which a person needs the formal education and training in he art of science of nursing. Nurses help individuals, families, and groups to achieve health and prevent diseases, and they care for the sick and injured using procedures based on knowledge, skill, and experience. They work in hospitals, clinics, and other health care facilities, in physician’s offices, in private homes, and schools. Nurse’s work under the direct supervision of nursing departments and in collaboration with physicians. They may be assigned to general, operating rooms, or maternity ward duty. They may also work in caring for sick children, or be assigned to other hospitals units, such as emergency rooms, intensive care units, or outpatient clinics. For instance, there many different types of nurses, general duty nurses work with other members of the health care team to assess the patient’s condition, and to develop and implement a plan of health care. The tasks these nurses perform include taking patient’s temperature, pulse, and blood pressure, administering medication, and injection, recording the symptoms and progress of patients, changing dressings, assisting patients with personal care, conferring with members of the medical staff, helping prepare a patient for surgery, and completing any number of other duties and that require skill and an understanding of patient’s goal. Surgical nurses oversee the preparation of the operating room and the sterilization of instruments. They assist the surgeons during operations and coordinate the flow of patient cases in the operating room. Maternity nurses help in the delivery room, take care of the newborns in the delivery in the nursery and help teach mothers how to feed and care for their babies. The activities of staff nurses are directed and coordinated by head nurses and supervisors. Heading up the entire nursing service in the hospital is the nursing service director, who administers the nursing program to maintain standards of patient care. Private duty nurses may work in hospitals or in patient’s homes. They are employed by the patient they are caring for or by a member of the family. Their service is specifically designed for the individual car of one person and is carried out in collaboration with the patient’s physician. Office nurses usually work in the office of dentists, physicians, or health maintenance organization (HMO). They may be one of several nurses on the staff or the only staff member. If one nurse is the only staff member, this person may have to combine some secretarial duties with those of nursing, such as serving as receptionist, making appointments for the doctors, and helping maintain patients’ records. School nurses may work in one school or in several, visiting each for a portion of the day or week. They may supervise the student clinic, treat minor cuts or injuries, or give advice on good health practices. Community health nurses, also called public health nurses, require specialized training for their assignments. Their job requires them to spend part of their time traveling from one commitment to another. Their duties may be quite different from one case to the next. For instance, in one day they may give instruction to a class of expectant mothers, visit a new parent s to help them plan proper care for their baby, visit an aged patient requiring special care, and conduct a class in proper nutrition. Nursing instructors may give classroom instruction, demonstrations, or supervise nursing students on hospital units.
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