Process Essay: A Career As A Nurse

What is your dream job? In this paper a student who researchers the nature of a job, its working conditions, employment facts, the education and training requirements, along with the future job potential and earnings will be wiser and more knowledgable when determine a career path to choose. Nursing is an interesting career path because they help save people, work with new borns, and help make a difference.
First, is the job features in nursing. “A nurse is identified from clinical research as a concept essential in the delivery of safe and high quality health care” (Youngbult). Nursing involves working between 35 to 45 hours a week including 12 hour shifts and working over night and weekends depending on where you work. The hours change

depending if you work in a hospital, nursing home or walk in clinic and no matter where you work you do have physical activity throughout the day whether it is walking, standing, bending, or even lifting things. With any jobs there are risks. When a nurse you come into contact with a number of patients a day. You can easily pick up a disease and even receive a injury from an instrument. Depending on where you work a nurse might be temporary basis where they can move around from place to place to help patients (SDMylife).
Second, is the education and qualifications of being a nurse.

A nurse has to be able to communicate well with patients and other nurses or doctors. When speaking with a patient a nurse wants to show compassion and try to help them in any way they can. When filling out a patients charts a nurse wants to be sure that other nurses or doctors can read the hand writing (NNS). A nurse also wants to be able to give the correct amount of medicine to a patient. They need to know not only the correct dosage but also how to calculate that dosage. As a nurse you deal with sick patients of all ages and you don’t want emotions to get in the way of things. Nurses need to use thinking skill for sound clinical judgments and for a safe decision (CTN). There are also medical students that are trained to lead but they still need to be respectful to other medical staff. A nurse should be able to go to there superior and say what they think about a certain patient. In order to become a nurse they should have graduated from high school with senior science, math, and english courses. They need to have a four year bachelor degree of science degrees in nursing along with the two year associate degree in nursing (SDMylife). A nurses typical length of trading takes about six years to complete

(LTL).
Finally, there is a nurses earnings and job outlook. A nurse must be solely to the injured individual and best efforts must be employed to provide the proper and best medical care for that patient (NEU). As a nurse you get benefits such as health insurance, paid vacation, and paid sick days along with child care with a flexible work schedule. When looking into the number of job outlooks just in South Dakota has a estimated 370 nursing jobs available (SDMylife).
In conclusion, a student who researched nursing, the nature of a job, its working conditions, employment facts, the education and training requirements, along with the future job potential and earnings will be wiser and more knowledgable when determine a career path to choose. In order to become a nurse it will take a lot of schooling, but in the long run it is worth it to help save lives and make a difference.