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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Understanding the Different Types of Nursing Jobs

Whatever your basic personal temperament and inclination, there will most likely be some types of nursing jobs that you will want to devote yourself to.

Types of nursing jobs regarding how you want to be employed can be either working for an agency or for a regular hospital or clinic. The difference between the two is that in an agency, you will be working not for a regular salary, but on a per-hour basis, depending on how many hours you have been assigned for a certain job. Nursing agencies are companies, usually with their own websites, that specialize in helping nurses find different types of nursing jobs. If a nurse registers in one such company, she will probably have to indicate the hours of the day that she is available. She will then be assigned duties on those free times.

There are also types of nursing jobs available from people who need their own private nurse. In these types of jobs, the nurse will usually visit the house regularly, sometimes daily. She might even be given accommodations to live in the house if it is too far away from the hospital where she is stationed, or her house, as the case may be. In this capacity, the nurse should be prepared to accompany her patient on trips. Nurses working in this capacity usually need to have a long experience in doing that sort of work. Specialization in one medical nursing field may also be an advantage as when the patient is a cardiac case or a special child or is a manic-depressive.

For other types of nursing jobs a nurse may also want to specialize in one or more medical field. In this category we have cardiac nursing jobs where the patient to be taken care of has a heart condition. There are also nursing jobs for geriatric patients, asthmatic patients and others.

In other types of nursing jobs, the nurse may also choose to become a professor in a nursing school, in which case she will probably have to earn post-graduate degrees in a specialty.

There are also such types of nursing jobs as involve legal cases. In this case, the nurse will be employed or retained by a law firm to assist them in cases where knowledge of nursing regulations and procedures may be needed to determine the action to be taken by the legal firm.

Nurses may also devote themselves to research work. In this capacity, they will need to have exceptional writing skills in order to clearly record their findings on paper.

Of course, let us not forget, military nurses. In this capacity, the nurse will be working for the government of the country. A military nurse may be assigned at home or in places where military campaigns are being conducted or where the military presence of the country is needed.

The types of nursing jobs are virtually endless. The nursing profession touches many aspects of human life. Therefore, if your heart is in your profession, you shouldn't have difficulty looking for work after you graduate. Any obstacles to doing that will mostly be personal ones that you should learn to unlearn.
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