SCOPE OF NURSING
There was a time when professional nurses had very little
choice of service because nursing was centered in the hospital and bedside
nursing. Career opportunities are more varied now for a numbers of reasons. The
list of opportunities available are given under:
1.
Staff Nurse provides
direct patient care to one patient or
a group of patients. Assists ward management and supervision. She is directly
responsible to the ward supervisor.
2. Ward
sister or Nursing Supervisor, She
is responsible to the nursing
superintendent for the nursing care management of a ward or unit. Takes full
charge of the ward. Assigns work to nursing and non-nursing
3.
personnel working in the ward.
Responsible for safety and comfort of patients in the ward. Provides teaching
sessions if it is a teaching hospital.
4.
Department supervisor/Assistant Nursing Superintendent. She is responsible to the nursing superintendent and deputy nursing superintendent for the nursing
care and management of more than one ward or unit. Example - Surgical
department. Out-patient department.
5.
Deputy nursing superintendent. She is responsible to
the nursing superintendent and assists in the nursing administration of the
hospital.
6.
Nursing Superintendent She
is responsible to the medical
superintendent for safe and efficient management of hospital nursing services.
7.
Director of Nursing She
is responsible for both nursing service
and nursing educations within a teaching hospital.
8.
Community Health Nurse (CHN) services rendered mainly
focusing Reproductive Child Health programme.
9.
Teaching in nursing.
The functions and responsibilities of
the teacher in nursing are planning, teaching and supervising the learning
experiences for the students. Positions in nursing education are clinical
instructor, tutor, senior tutor, lecturer, and associate professor, Reader in
nursing and Professor in nursing.
10.
Industrial nurse Industrial
nurses are providing first aid, care
during illness, health educations about industrial hazards and prevention of
accidents.
11.
Military Nurse. Military
Nursing service became a part of the
Indian Army by which means nurses became commissioned officers who are given
rank from liutenant to major general.
12.
Nursing service abroad Attractive salaries and promising professional opportunities,
which causes a major increase for nursing service in abroad. service administrative positions. At
the state level the Deputy Director of Nursing at the state
health directorate. The highest administrative position on a national level is
the Nursing Advisor to the Govt. of
India.
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