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Careers in Nursing

Overview: Nursing is a career filled with endless personal and professional rewards. If you choose nursing, you are choosing to spend your life helping others, using skills that blend scientific knowledge with compassion and care. Nursing, as an integral part of the health care system, focuses on promotion of health, prevention of illness, and care of physically ill, mentally ill, and disable people of all ages in all health care setting. Registered nurses (RNs), perform basic duties that include treating patients, educating patients about medical conditions, and providing advice and emotional support to patients’ family members, recording patients’ medical histories and symptoms, helping to perform diagnostic tests and analyze results, operating medical machinery, administering treatment and medications, and helping with patient rehabilitation. Nursing education programme include both classroom instruction and clinical experiences in hospitals and other health care facilities. Nurses are required to appear in examination conducted by Nurses Examination Board (NEB). After clearing the examination they get licensed from Pakistan Nursing Council to practice as a registered nurse. Specialisation: Nurse can work in following areas: Clinical Nursing Nursing Education Community Health Nursing Nursing Management Nursing Research Study Route: Where to Study: Faculty of Health Sciences-School of Nursing, Aga Khan University, Karachi Baqai College of Nursing,  Baqai  Medical University, Karachi School of Nursing and Midwifery-Ziauddin Medical University, Karachi Institute of Nursing, Dow University of Health Science, Karachi Holy Family Hospital School of Nursing,  Karachi Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi Civil Hospital, Karachi Isra  University, Hyderabad College of Nursing, Pakistan Institute of Medical Science,  Islamabad FMH (Fatima Memorial Hospital) college of Nursing, Lahore Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore University of Health Science, Lahore Nishter Medical College, Multan Required Attributes: Nurses should be caring, sympathetic, responsible, and detail oriented. They must be able to direct or supervise others, correctly assess patients’ conditions, and determine when consultation is required. They need emotional stability to cope with human suffering, emergencies, and other stresses. So, nurses need to have: Leadership and organisational skills Good Interpersonal skills Patience Flexibility Compassion Problem-solving skills A sense of humour The ability to stay calm in crisis Prospects: Nurses today have more options than ever before about what kind of work they do, where they do it, and when they work. Majority of the nurses’ work in hospitals. The rest work in many other settings, including: Long-term-care centres (rehabilitation, nursing homes) Clinics Medical offices (eye doctors, dentists, obstetricians, surgeons, and others) Health Centres (mostly as lady Health workers) Nursing schools (as professors) Schools Laboratories Defence sector (Navy, Army, Air force) Hospital Regulator (Conducting survey and inspect) Where do nurses work in hospitals? Practically everywhere! They can work in: Patient care units at the bedside Operating rooms and emergency rooms Medical records or other hospital offices X-ray and other diagnostic units Intensive care units/ Cardiac Care Unit Surgical and recovery units Day Care surgery centres Paediatrics, caring for children Hospital nurseries or neonatal intensive care units, caring for newborns Psychiatric and drug treatment centres Laboratories  Go to Back / Go to Next / Go to Main