Registered Nurse Careers
A career as a registered nurse offers you a great deal of variety of environments and specialties. Nurses are in high demand, so review your options here.
As a registered nurse, you can work in a variety of specialties and environments. If you enjoy working with children, then you can work as a pediatric registered nurse in a neonatal unit. If you enjoy helping an older generation, you can work with geriatric patients. Your other alternative is to work in a particular health care practice such as oncology, dermatology, cardiology, obstetrics, podiatry, or any number of fields.
Where You Can Work
As a registered nurse, you have the opportunity to work in a critical care unit, emergency room, or trauma nurse in a hospital or emergency department. Additional jobs include transport nurse via helicopter or ambulance. You can work in home health care, hospice, infusion care, administering medication, long-term care, an occupational nurse, psychiatric mental health, or radiology.
Duties include:- Recording medical history, procedures, and medication
- Providing diagnostics and therapy procedures
- Administering treatment
- Administering therapy, immunizations, intravenous lines, medicine
- Taking vitals and observing changes in patients
- Working closely with physicians
There are various methods to have a registered nurse career. Either acquire a two years associate's degree, a four-year bachelor's degree, or complete a national licensing diploma program. Advanced practice nurses, such as a clinical nurses, anesthetic nurse, midwifery, or nurse practitioner require a master's degree.
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