A career to nurse your compassion and care

Nursing is considered to be one of the highly stable professions. Despite ups and downs in economies of the countries, nursing is recession proof, and it will remain an opportunity always. 

With sicknesses increasing astronomically, the nurses are in demand. Present day medical care including home check-ups is highly rigorous. Nurses need to be skilled, courageous, patient and service oriented. 

The undergraduate course of B.Sc in Nursing is four years and P.B.B.sc., (Post Basic Bachelor in Nursing is two years. The General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM) is three and half-year that concentrates on holistic care from birth to death. The one-year diploma course Auxiliary Nursing Midwifery (ANM) focuses on health care. If you would like to study M.Sc (Nursing), M. Phil or PhD., then you should consider graduation. All the three categories are employed in the similar environment of hospitals, nursing homes, educational institutes and health departments, but the competencies, work description and pay scales vary from each other. 

You pay much less if you get into Government run colleges. But you should pass the exams and fulfil all the requirements. Or else choose a good private institute. You should be able to support with your educational loan and easily pay back. You need to ensure that the Institute where you are applying is registered under and con

trolled by Indian Nursing Council. If it is not then the candidate passing out from that institution will not be able to work outside that state. 

Nurses today are considered to be very valuable. From developing countries like Haiti to prosperous economies of Europe all need nurses in huge number. The nursing shortages are acute in some Middle Eastern countries. Indian nurses are hugely popular and always in demand both in developed and developing economies. 

Places of work: hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, primary health centres, health departments, railways, defence, corporates, even private homes have their own nurses. Recently I came across a gated that community that has a team of nurses. It is an idea that might catch up with other apartments and gated communities. 

Facets of work: O.T. Techniques, Ophthalmic, leprosy, TB, Neurological, Cancer, Intensive Care, Orthopedic, Community health and also specializations in medical, surgical nursing, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatric, Psychiatric, etc.

The spectrum responsibilities include from writing patient care plans to making ethical decisions related to consent and confidentiality. Gaining the confidence of each patient and improving the quality of life for each is the most important.