Career Clinch: A Career As A Nurse

Career Clinch Finding the career choice that fits a person’s personality, interests, and financial needs can be troublesome. Being in high school, it is difficult to know what interests a student fully and what does not. Jobs come with immense responsibilities that can only be fulfilled properly with workers that have the right qualities and mindset. In my opinion, I believe that I would be best suited for a job as a nurse or a federal agent. These two jobs represent my personality and interests the best, so I can’t wait to discover which profession works out for me. Being a nurse is something that I have always been fascinated in. A nurse’s job is to keep their patients healthy, and to get them up and going as soon as possible. Some nurses

After looking into the different options, I have narrowed it down to three different options. A dermatology nurse, forensic nurse, and a nurse practitioner. Dermatology nurses help patients though skin problems like wounds, injuries, diseases, skin cancer, and post-plastic surgery treatments. I like this field because I think it’s satisfactory watching dermatology videos and being able to view how the skin and pores work. The workplace options for dermatologists includes private practices, hospital burn wards, and plastic surgeon’s offices. Also, there is a rising demand for dermatology nurses right now, which means it won’t be difficult to get a job if the credentials are met. The second type of nurse that I am interested in looking into is a forensic nurse. Their main tasks are to examine crimes like physical and sexual assault along with accidental death. They are trained just like the criminal justice system is and also are able to testify in court as an expert medical witness. I believe that this type of nursing would be very interesting because it is a mix between being a federal agent and a nurse at the same time. Therefore, when solving a case, a forensic nurse is able to look at the victim and try to put together who did it by looking at the medical evidence. The work is fast-paced, patient-facing, and research oriented, which are all factors that I am skilled in Lastly, being a nurse practitioner seems like a pretty basic yet very independent field of nursing. According to Discovering Nursing, “Nurse Practitioners are Advanced Practice Nurses who serve as primary and specialty health care providers to patients in clinics, hospitals, schools, and even private practices” (Johnson). In the speciality of nurse practitioners, there are a lot of different workplaces, hobs, and characteristics to consider. Nurse practitioners can prescribe medication, diagnose diseases,