There are a number of types of nurse you can train to become whilst at university. After you have qualified the options for a career in other differing specialties within your current specialty increases with either further training or experience in a particular role. The following are some of the specialties you can learn and become qualified in wherever you train, from which all later career development comes from.
As well as providing physical care to patients, General nurses must also be proficient at providing emotional support to families and patients who may be going through a distressing treatment.General nurses work with a broad spectrum of people from teenagers in residential care homes, the elderly in nursing homes and adults in hospital wards. Because of this General nurses must have a wide range of knowledge of a number of illnesses to enable them to provide information and support to the patient they are working with.
Psychiatric, or mental health, nursing involves caring for and keeping safe a variety of different people with a variety of mental illnesses. These can include Depression, Eating disorders and many other distressing mental illnesses. Once qualified you will have gained a knowledge of the mental health act that is the law in whichever country you are practising in. Mental Health nursing involves working with a large variety of professionals as well as the carers of the patient, as caring for someone with a mental illness is complex.
Learning difficulties nursing is mainly concerned with supporting and enabling an individual with sometimes complex mental and physical problems to live as independently as possible. The nurse must, of course, take into account the level to which the individual can function in this manner.
For those who are not capable of living independently it is the nurses' job to provide the best quality of life possible for the patient and their families. This can include the use of such things as 'sensory rooms' which can stimulate the senses of an individual who is normally uncommunicative.
After qualification there are a wealth of options you have and directions you can take your career. Experience and sometimes extra training are necessary but once you have these things you can take your career in many directions. Some choose to specialise in child nursing, prison nursing or some specialise in one particular illness, such as eating disorders, and can go and work at private clinics all over the world.
It is important to remember that one of your roles as a nurse is to be an educator. It is part of a nurses job description to educate students, relatives, patients as well as themselves, it is important to keep up with developments in clinical practice as knowledge is developing and changing all the time. It may be that you enjoy this so much that teaching nursing full time is a path you would like to follow. The possibilities are endless!
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