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Nursing Jobs
Significant Points Of Nursing Jobs
- Registered Nurses (RNs)
- Registered nurses constitute the largest healthcare occupation, with 2.3 million jobs.
- More new jobs are expected to be created for registered nurses than for any other occupation.
- Job opportunities are expected to be very good.
- The three major educational paths to registered nursing are a bachelor's degree, an associate degree, and a diploma.
- Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses (LPNs&LVNs)
- Training lasting about 1 year is available in about 1,100 State-approved programs, mostly in vocational or technical schools.
- Nursing care facilities will offer the most new jobs.
- Applicants for jobs in hospitals may face competition as the number of hospital jobs for LPNs declines.
- Nursing, Psychiatric, and Home Health Aides
- Most jobs are in nursing and residential care facilities, hospitals, and home healthcare services.
- Modest entry requirements, low pay, high physical and emotional demands, and lack of advancement opportunities characterize this occupation.
- Numerous job openings and excellent job opportunities are expected.
Nature Of The Work
Registered nurses (RNs) work to promote health, prevent disease, and help patients cope with illness. They are advocates and health educators for patients, families, and communities. When providing direct patient care, they observe, assess, and record symptoms, reactions, and progress in patients; assist physicians during surgeries, treatments, and examinations; administer medications; and assist in convalescence and rehabilitation. RNs also develop and manage nursing care plans, instruct patients and their families in proper care, and help individuals and groups take steps to improve or maintain their health. While State laws govern the tasks that RNs may perform, it is usually the work setting that determines their daily job duties.
Licensed practical nurses (LPNs), or licensed vocational nurses (LVNs), care for the sick, injured, convalescent, and disabled under the direction of physicians and registered nurses.
Nursing and psychiatric aides help care for physically or mentally ill, injured, disabled, or infirm individuals confined to hospitals, nursing care facilities, and mental health settings. Home health aides' duties are similar, but they work in patients' homes or residential care facilities.
For more information of nursing jobs, please go to Bureau of Labor Statistics for RN, LPN&LVN, and Nurse Aides.
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