Becoming a Nurse
People usualy wonder why individuals can choose nursing for their occupation, with so much stress and human suffering.
The disadvantages of being a nurse are much less than advantages of choosing this career. Nurses say that working in a hospital is much more stressful and harder than working for a physician’s office or working in the health department. The most stressful and heart breaking thing for them is that nurse has to endue is taking care of a terminally ill individual and have to explain to their family that there is nothing else that can be done, except for making the patient as comfortable as possible.
There is a big amount of paper work for a registered nurse in a supervisory position. If you have a lot of troubles with your feet and legs than this is not the occupation for you, nurses are on their feet for excessively long periods of time. Anyone who choose a nursing career needs to be able to leave their troubles at home and concentrate on their jobs, if they make one mistake it could be vary damaging and costly to their career.
A nurse is the back bone for the patients and their families, and the doctors. A nurse is the one that has to talk with the patients and evaluate them relaying what they have found to their doctors. The doctor than tells the nurse what to do for this patient and if the patient and family are not satisfied with the doctors orders the nurse is the one who has to listen to the complaints and try to compromise between the doctor , patient, and the family.
Some doctors can be very hard to work with. They work very long hours and are also very stressed. Being a nurse has many situations to handle, so you have to be able to adapt to many situations and conditions, and do it in a timely manner. Nurses have to be able to oversee and work on different individuals at the same time. If you are a nurse you must posses the ability to think quickly and react very fast.
Also nurse can not wear her heart on her sleeves, because she will see lots of heart wrenching conditions. To become a student you must first take and pass a Nursing Entrance Exam or NET test. You also go through multiply interviews, and need carry above at least a C average in all your classes. Nurses go through big amount of training. They have a bunch of classroom studying and hands on training.
All nurses are very well trained persons. In conclusion, if you like to take care of them then you would be an exceptional nurse. You need to first realize that it is going to take a lot of studying and very hard work. You need to know first that if you can handle the stress and the hard work it take to become a nurse.
Everyone who wants to become a nurse needs to make sure they can handle the site of blood and needles, because a nurse encounters these on a daily basis. All jobs in today’s world have many advantages and disadvantages. There is no one job that is perfect but in the nursing career you have to try your hardest and almost always be right.
I have made my choise. Nursing is for me.
