Nursing Profession
Experiences In The Transition From A Student To A Professional Nurse
The beating heart of the medical system depends entirely on nurses. As a result, many students have been encouraged to undertake this course to help the health sectors with few medical practitioners. According to Lee et al., (2020), this has led to congestion in this profession, whereby many students believe that they would make it in life upon graduating with a bachelor’s in nursing. Kim & Yeo (2019) explains that many nurses face the main challenge after graduation is joblessness and crowds in the same profession. This comes as a result of many people graduating from different institutions but with professional skills. Ideally, this has made several nurses move to other occupations as they wait to get employed in various medical institutions.
For this reason, many strategies have to be initiated to get employed in a medical institution. Firstly, as a nurse, one would opt to volunteer in various fields. Based on Kim & Yeo (2019), the nursing profession mainly involves helping the sick and taking good care of them. Many non-governmental organizations typically have projects such as treatment of jiggers in rural areas, assisting in accidents and natural calamities such as droughts, floods, and making sure patients in areas with disease outbreaks as cholera are helped. According to Kim & Yeo, (2019), contributing to such projects voluntarily would make such organizations prefer the volunteer in case a job opportunity arises.
Secondly, one would initiate an own project in areas with few medical facilities to get jobs. Lee et al., (2020) explains an example whereby in less funded areas with fewer medical practitioners, a nurse would have a private organization that would still offer the same services. By providing good services and at a lower price, some patients would prefer the organization and recommend it to other patients. This, too, can be a good source of employment.
Difference Between A Recruited Nurse And A Student Nurse
As a student nurse, the tutor would give the student a practical assignment of the patient that they are to take care of on a particular day. McCluskey et al., (2019) argue that this means that the student is only obligated (patient assignment) to taking care of one patient in one particular day and under the strict instructions of then tutors. On the other hand, professional nurses are obligated to take care of various patients within a hospital. This comes as a result of an increase in the number of patients in the same hospital. Also, since they have good experience with patients, they know how to handle several patients effectively.
While administering medications, the doctor has to ensure that the medications being offered are working effectively on the patient. McCluskey et al., (2019) elaborates that the clinical instructor has to first offer the medication on the patient and verifies if it is effective. Thereafter, the student nurse can administer the same drug to the patient in the same way it was being provided. Notably, the clinical instructor has to be available while giving out the medications to approve if it has been done correctly. This makes a nurse student make minimal mistakes as the nursing profession requires a lot of keenness.
A recruited nurse would not take instructions from the doctor but would rather have all the written documents from the doctor to give medication to a specific patient. According to Chai et al., (2019), time is a key factor in this as one has to make sure that all the dosage is given out in time. In case of an emergency, the recruited nurse would have to deploy the knowledge and experience gained to ensure that the patient survives and is out of danger.
Effects Of Social Media On The Nursing Profession
As a nurse, one would have different perspectives about social media. Ideally, social media affects the nursing profession, both positively and negatively. As a result, some debates and questions have arisen over social media’s effects on the nursing profession. From McNamara & Usher, (2019) arguments, creating blogs about the nursing profession and promoting the positive deeds gat nurses have done to patients would support various nursing activities. Initiatives of different fields such as volunteers who offer vaccination against polio, scanning cancer for free, and offering voluntary council on sexually transmitted diseases should be captured in such blogs (McNamara & Usher, 2019). Through this, some people would get to support such organizations to help the nurses build their reputation and profession.
On the other hand, social media can equally make people have different perspectives on their private health life. Many doctors would freely discuss patient activities in hospitals through social media. Patients normally want to have a confidential talk with doctors. Alharbi, Kuhn, & Morphet (2020) explains that for this reason, a number of them would not be happy if such information is disclosed to the public through social media. Also, sharing pictures of various wounds and patients who have suffered excessively from the disease would discourage other patients from visiting the hospitals.
Lastly, social media is a media for communication; it can help various hospitals communicate to their customers on multiple issues, such as creating awareness for the outbreak of diseases. On the other hand, Alharbi, Kuhn, & Morphet (2020) elucidates how patients can effectively use the same platform to present their complaints about the services offered in the hospital. This will help the government and the hospital managements to have an idea of the resources required in the health facilities. The hospital fraternity and nurses would also offer quality services to avoid raising complaints among patients.
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