Nursing Careers

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When it comes to choosing which nursing careers to pick from, there are many of them. In fact there are about twenty-five different kind of nursing careers to choose form. Example of those are; Licensed practical nurse (LPN), Nurse practitioner (NP), Intensive care unit (ICU) nurse etc. The kind of nursing career that I would like to do some day is a Registered Nurse. A registered nurse is someone who works as part of a team of physicians, therapists, practitioners LPNs and other health care professionals to provide care to the patients. As a registered nurse, you can work in all types of medical and nonmedical setting including, schools, medical offices, hospitals, nursing homes, surgical centers, clinics, and other facilities that offer health and medical care to patients.

As to the duties that I would have to do, it depends on the patients that I will be treating. As for example, if I am specialized in working in the ICU department, I am mostly likely to work with patients who are very ill. As general duties that a registered nurse has to do on a daily base is to, educate patients and the public about their overall health, provide and coordinate care. Provide advice and emotional support to the patient and their …show more content…

I would need to go to college, mostly and likely a University and get into a BNS program, which typically take four years to complete. In that program I will mostly like have some clinical experience that will be supervised. If I wanted to go for a higher education I can go in to taking a bachelor’s degree or higher. Which would also be done for four years. After getting the degree I would need the nursing license. To get that I would need to pass the national council licensure examination, and to get the certification I can do the National board exam. And every couple years I would need to re license which means I need to keep on

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