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As the student nurse approaches graduation, thoughts of beginning a career in nursing come to mind. A new nurse should think very seriously about their career goals. These include long term as well as short term goals. As with any path of life that an individual takes, it is not random. Each person that seeks an education does so with a set of plans and directionality for their immediate goals and long term. The idea of graduating from a nursing program once again dictates to the graduate that plans once again must be laid for the road ahead. Nothing worthwhile doing is done haphazardly. All things require preparation. Even as one contemplated going into the nursing field, certain pre-requisites had to be completed before hand. Graduating from a nursing program is another transition phase that must be approached with the same dedication and planning as was first applied. The short synopsis below is a sample of a career goal paper. Everyone will have their own unique career goal paper. Now is a good time to start thinking about career goals.

INTRODUCTION:

The field of nursing attracted me for several reasons. The first reason being, that a nurse is the front line person in caring for others and saving lives. The nurse will in many cases such as in the hospital or homecare environment discover the patient who needs emergency attention before the physician. It will be up to the nurse to respond accordingly within the scope of their practice and hospital procedures. Why does this facet of nursing attract me? Well, it is because that this type of responsibility is not too far off from the type of responsibility that a physician has, which is what I had hoped to become many years ago. Nurses did not have that crucial level of responsibility initially. Because of this, many patients died. For instance, a nurse from the past may not have known the therapeutic values of electrolytes and blood gases thereby putting the patient’s health in jeopardy. Now, in present times, the nurse must know all of the pertinent lab values and act upon any change immediately, either by calling the physician or implementing standing orders.

The other aspect of nursing that is also attractive to me in becoming a nurse, is that the nurse uses therapeutic communication and treats the patient’s response to real or perceived illness. This is the corner stone of which nursing is based on. The holistic approach is so successful in helping patients to heal. I am a firm believer that for an individual to be able to heal from without, they must first heal from within. Therefore the nurse can help clients to adapt and grow in a positive way rather than negative. Since all of nursing is now based on evidenced practice, it is exciting to be able to put the scientific method to use. There are now logical and provable reasons that a nurse should take a particular course of action.

These are just some of the reasons which have attracted me to the profession of nursing.

SHORT-TERM CAREER GOALS:

My short-term career goals consist of successfully passing Nursing 255, then passing the national board exam. Once this is accomplished, I hope to be work on a medical-surgical floor and hone my skills as a graduate nurse. I have chosen medical-surgical nursing as a starting point because this particular field will help me to develop my clinical skills.

LONG-TERM CAREER GOALS:

I hope to be an active member in the profession of nursing, joining the American Nurses Association, attending seminars and lobbying for the advancement of nurses to prescribe medication independently. Hopefully within the next five years or so I will have a degree as an advanced practice nurse in the field of family healthcare and be working in an emergency room.

PERSONAL GOALS

My personal goals are humble. Money has never been a goal, rather doing that which enriches the soul. I am thankful to my Lord that I have been given the opportunity to have made it thus far. I take care of my mother and help my family as best I can. I am happiest when I am helping others, and owe a large debt of gratitude to my instructors, who have given of themselves their wealth of knowledge and experience to help produce competent nurses. I hope to make them proud.

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NCSBN (National Council of the State Board of Nursing) does not have established guidelines for graduating students as to when to register. However, registering for the NCLEX examination and licensure during the month of the student’s graduation is common. Note that registering to take the examination and applying for licensure to a state board of nursing are two different processes.

Please keep in mind all NCLEX examination registrations will remain effective for a 365-day time period during which a board of nursing may determine the candidate’s eligibility. The time limit begins when the board of nursing receives the candidate’s registration from the test service. Candidates who are not made eligible by their board of nursing within the 365-day time period will forfeit their registrations, including the candidate registration fee. Candidates who wish to take an NCLEX examination will need to re-register, including repaying the examination fee, in order to receive an examination.

Students can register for the NCLEX examination and pay the $200 by credit card by calling Pearson VUE at 866.496.2539 or register via the Internet.

Apply for licensure to the board of nursing in the state or territory where you wish to be licensed. Contact the state board for the requirements.

Register for the NCLEX examination with Pearson VUE by mail, telephone or via the internet.

The name with which you register must match exactly with the printed name on the identification you present at the test center.

If you provide an e-mail address when registering for the NCLEX examination, all subsequent correspondences from Pearson VUE will arrive ONLY BY E-MAIL. If you do not provide an e-mail address, all correspondences from will arrive only through U.S. mail.

All NCLEX examination registrations will remain open for a 365-day time period during which a board of nursing may determine your eligibility to take the NCLEX examination.

There is no refund of the $200 NCLEX registration fee for any reason.

Receive Confirmation of Registration from Pearson VUE.

Receive eligibility from the state board of nursing you applied for licensure with.

Receive Authorization to Test (ATT) from Pearson VUE.

If more than two weeks have passed after you have submitted a registration for the NCLEX examination and received a confirmation from Pearson VUE, and you have not received an ATT, please call Pearson VUE.

You must test within the validity dates of your ATT. These validity dates cannot be extended for any reason.

The printed name on your identification must match exactly the printed name on your ATT. If the name with which you have registered is different from the name on your identification, you must bring legal name change documentation with you to the test center on the day of your test. The only acceptable forms for legal documentation are: marriage licenses, divorce degrees and/or court action legal name change documents. All documents must be in English and must be the original documents.

Schedule an appointment to test by calling Pearson VUE.

To change your appointment date:

For exams scheduled on: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, call Pearson VUE at least 24 hours in advance of the day and time of your appointment.

For exams scheduled on: Saturday, Sunday and Monday, call Pearson VUE no later than Friday at least 1 full business day in advance of the time of your appointment.

Present one form of acceptable identification and your ATT on the day of the examination.

The only acceptable forms of identification in test centers in the U.S., American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands and Virgin Islands are:

U.S. drivers license (not a temporary or learners permit)

U.S. state identification

Passport

For all other test (international) centers, only a passport is acceptable. All identification must be written in English, have a signature in English, be valid (not expired) and include a photograph. Candidates with identification from a country on the U.S. embargoed countries list will not be admitted to test.

You will not be admitted to the examination without acceptable identification and your ATT. If you arrive without these materials, you forfeit your test session and must re-register; this includes re-payment of the $200 registration fee.

Receive your NCLEX examination results from the board of nursing you applied for licensure with within one month from your examination date. Under the guidance of its membership, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Inc. (NCSBN) develops and administers two national nurse licensure examinations; the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN

Since the days of Florence Nightingale, the profession of nursing has been viewed as a career consisting of self sacrificing individuals who, with caring and compassion have devoted their lives to easing the pain and suffering of those in need. Such noble and honorable individuals would surely never strike for what ever reason, right? Wrong! So, what has happened over the centuries to the profession of nursing?

To begin to understand what has taken place in the arena of nursing, one needs to understand what the nurses of today are faced with in the hospital settings. First, many nurses are required to care for more patients than they can handle safely. This is to say that a patient care load of seven on a medical surgical unit can go up to eleven during the afternoon and midnight shift.

Depending on the acuity (level of care needed) of the clients, the nurse may not be able to safely attend to all of the clients needs, and need to forego certain aspects of care just to be able to get the majority of their responsibilities completed by the next shift. This situation of patient overload can result in very serious health consequences for the patient and ultimately, death.

The direct consequence of patient neglect for the nurse involved would usually entail a law suite being filed by the family naming the nurse and the hospital as well. Patient overload is just one of the many reasons that nurses have sought to form a coalition and be represented by their own organizations. Another reason for nurses to organize is due to the policy of pulling nurses to other floors where the patient acuity care process requires specific knowledge to be able to practice safely as a nurse. An example would be a maternity floor nurse being pulled to a medical surgical floor and being assigned a patient load consisting of newly admitted pre-operative patients and others that require suctioning and vent care.

The maternity floor nurse would not only be unsafe to work on the medical surgical floor, but could also put patient’s lives in jeopardy due to her inexperience. So, what is that nurse supposed to do if they decide to decline being pulled to another floor? Many nurses feel that they may be reprimanded by the shift supervisor and perhaps written up for insubordination. But are they not in fact, declining for a valid reason? Also, shouldn’t quality patient care be the utmost priority as well as patient safety? The answer to both of these questions is of course a resounding, YES!

However, many nurses are faced with these dilemmas day in and day out. They leave at the end of the day feeling as if they haven’t been able to give proper nursing care. They would be correct. It is an unsafe practice to float nurses that are unfamiliar with a particular floor to work there. The fact is, that it is done on a regular basis. Would this be a sufficient reason to strike? Many nurses think so. The list could go on and on. How safe would you feel with a nurse caring for a loved one who was on the sixteenth hour of a double shift? Not very, right? Approximately 60% of nurse in practice are providing care in hospitals (Work-Place issues, 2005)

In 1946, the American Nurses Association’s House of Delegates unanimously approved a resolution that opened the doors to nurses to engage in collective bargaining. Then about thirty years later the legal precedent that determined that state nursing associations are qualified under labor law to be labor organizations is the 1979 Sierra Vista decision. The important consequence that affected nurse was that they were free to organize themselves and not be organized by existing unions. Currently, it is the American Nurses Association that is in the forefront of establishing coalitions and bargaining for nurses nation.

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Nursing is a profession that places on its participants a great responsibility for maintaining the highest possible standards to ensure superior quality of care. Each state has its own Board of Nursing which is responsible for the regulation and licensing of nursing practice. As the profession of nursing continues to grow and change the practicing nurse will bear more responsibility as well as legal accountability for their actions. This truth is evident in the various professional licensures that are available for nurses, such as Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Midwifes and Nurse Anesthetists. It therefore behooves each licensing board to not only self regulate judiciously but to also refine the scope of nurse practice from time to time.

The individual states must also act in accordance with the overall nursing theory in mind. Self regulation is done by continually refining such goals as 1) Defining its scope of nursing practice, 2) Developing a code of ethic, 3) Establishing standards for nursing education and practice and for structures through which nursing services will be delivered,4) Developing a system of credentialing, 5)Providing for peer review and quality assurance, 6) Providing for research and continuing development of the knowledge base for nursing. (Michigan Nurses Association, Legal & Professional Regulation,, Co. 1999, ISBN0-9634643-1-0, Okemos, Michigan)

As with most professions there is a code of ethics that are inherent to each. Nursing is no different. The code for nurses consists of eleven major topics that each nurse across the nation is required to adhere.

Code for Nurses

1. The nurse provides services with respect for human dignity and the uniqueness of the client unrestricted by consideration of social or economic status, personal attributes, or the nature of health problems.

2. The nurse safeguards the client’s right to privacy, by judiciously protecting information of a confidential nature.

3. The nurse acts to safeguard the client and the public when heath care and safety are affected by the incompetent, unethical or illegal practice of any person.

4. The nurse assumes responsibility and accountability for individual nursing judgments and actions.

5. The nurse maintains competence in nursing.

6. The nurse exercises informed judgment and uses individual competence and qualifications as criteria in seeking consultation, accepting responsibilities, and delegating nursing activities to others.

7. The nurse participates in activities that contribute to the ongoing development of the profession’s body of knowledge.

8. The nurse participates in the profession’s efforts to implement and improve standards of nursing.

9. The nurse participates in the profession’s efforts to establish and maintain conditions of employment conducive to high quality nursing care.

10. The nurse participates in the profession’s effort to protect the public from misinformation and misrepresentation and to maintain the integrity of nursing.

11. The nurse collaborates with member so the health professions and other citizens in promoting community and national efforts to meet the health needs of the public. (Michigan Nurses Association, Legal & Professional Regulation,, Co. 1999, ISBN0-9634643-1-0, Okemos, Michigan)

One can interpret from the above Nurse Code that many of the hospitals employ a similar code to their organization for promotion of client health care needs. Some of the principals that hospitals employ include the responsibility of each of its employees to maintain the highest standards of care for each client served, to judiciously guard the privacy of clients, to maintain a safe environment and to take independent action when a situation arises where they are the only one that can act.

There are states that allow nurses that have attained advanced practice degrees to write prescriptions and bill insurance agencies independently. With the health care field burgeoning continuously with a growing aging population, the need for Nurse Practitioners will also continue to grow as well as the responsibilities of the Registered Nurse.

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It has been predicted that the baby boomer generation will be the most effected by the changes health care system with regard to nursing care. The current health care system is in a state of flux. With insurance companies constantly raising rates and premiums, and the hospital stays becoming less frequent, the end result is that health care must extend to the home. The impact of this new era of home care will have various effects on the population that is served. Although it is true that home care has been in existence for almost as many years as the profession of nursing itself, the amount of clients that home care now serves is quite a bit larger than the past as well as more medically demanding. What this situation implies for the nursing profession is a larger responsibility in ensuring that clients who are discharged within one to two days receive the necessary teaching and follow up nursing care to ensure progressive healing and a maximum return to wellness.

In order to help ensure the goal for the client after discharge, the hospital nurse must be acutely aware of what the clients teaching needs will be from the time of admission.

For instance, those clients that have chronic respiratory disorders will need to be taught how to assess themselves for the danger signs and symptoms of circulatory overload. The patient needs to be taught that a weight gain more than one to two pounds per day may indicate circulatory overload and lead to respiratory distress. While this teaching plan may seem simplistic, the fact remains that many of these respiratory compromised clients are released from the hospital prior to their blood work and medical condition stabilizing.

The problems arise when the client is not functioning at a cognitive level to utilize the teaching from the nurse. Even more crucial is the need for family to be involved and their desire and willingness to participate in home care. When all falls through, which happens more frequently than not, the client is the one who suffers the consequences. As it happens, family cannot always coordinate with the nurse’s schedule, follow through teaching may not be completed by the nurse on that particular shift. Sometimes by no ones fault, the system fails the patient just from lack of time. The solutions to this dilemma cannot be elucidated in one or two sentences. As the old saying goes, “it takes a village to raise a child”, “similarly it takes a village to promote the wellness of an individual”. With this said, one can infer the difficulties in promoting the physical and emotional wellness of a client recently discharged from the hospital.

To at least begin to offer some solution’s, would be to hire more nurses. Since this is not logical in keeping with the hospitals policy to save monies, there has to be other possible solutions. One solution would entail a network that extends from the hospital to the home. The homecare nurse begins working with the patient and nurse before discharge. Facilitation of communication, along with the care of genuinely concerned individuals involved in the health care system will make a positive difference in the quality of the client’s life.

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In today’s economy with declining employment in many fields that require degrees, the profession of nursing is as solid as it ever was. People with prior degrees are looking to enter the nursing profession. The salary of a nurse varies greatly. There is really no base salary but a fluctuation across the board. The reasoning for this is a varied as the salaries in nursing.

The base pay of a nurse is determined by many different factors. The first of these factors are the years of experience that the nurse brings to the table. A GN or graduate degreed nurse will start out at the lowest salary of nurse pay. They will remain at this level until they pass their board exam or NCLEX. Upon passing their boards they will receive a small increase in pay anywhere from $2.50 per hour to $5.00 per hour. The most important factor in this scenario is to keep in mind that if the graduate nurse does not successfully pass the board exam the hospital can terminate their employment or extend to them a grace period in which they have the opportunity to pass the boards a second time. In the past years, it was not unusual for a graduate nurse to stay on as a hospital employee for years before finally passing or taking their boards.

This practice is no longer widely accepted. Also the graduate nurse is not allowed to pass any medications until they have their licensure. The question remains, what is the typical base salary for a graduate nurse. It is safe to say that the salary ranges in the low to mid forty thousand dollars per year. This discrepancy of several thousand dollars has much to do with the location of the hospital. For instance, in rural communities where much of the hospital funding comes from the government, the pay rate may be higher or lower than a privately funded institution.

The mitigating factor is how successful the grant writers are at tapping into government funds, and how much private endowment monies are bestowed to the hospital. Even with these two factors in place comes the process of dissemination of the funds. This is dependent on how the board of directors see fit to use the funds. These funds could be put to the construction of a new hospital wing, or to the purchase of new diagnostic equipment.

Whether or not the nurses are unionized is also another factor in entry level nurse pay. Unions can either work for or against nursing wages. Sometimes non-unionized hospitals pay more.

Shift premiums are also a factor. The top shift premium is paid for the midnight shift. Midnight shift premiums range anywhere from $2.50 per hour to $4.50 per hour. Since most shifts in hospitals are now twelve hour shifts, midnights start around 7:30 p.m. and end around 7:30 a.m.. These are attractive hours for many nurses since they get four days off during a week and are still considered full time at thirty six hours per week. Health benefits including dental and optical are included in the total package and begin anywhere from one week after hire up to ninety days.

The area of the hospital that the nurse will work in is also a factor in pay. For instance those nurses that are trained for specialty care areas such as intensive care units (I.C.U.), the operating room, recovery room, or in the cardiac care facility will get paid an extra premium upon completion of their training in the hospital.

Different areas of the United States have been known to differ in nurse pay scales according to the cost of living and population densities.

In the final analysis, the following factors are involved in determining the salary of an entry level nurse; a) their years of experience in patient care, b) the shift they will be working, c) the hospitals location, either rural or metropolitan, d) whether or not the nurses are unionized, e) the population density and per-capita income of the residents in the hospitals region, f) the area of specialty the nurse will work in, such as I.C.U., C.C.U, etc., g) successful completion of licensing boards. h) whether or not to accept a benefit package or keep extra dollars per hour and opt not to take the benefit package, i) whether the hospital is government or privately funded.

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Many new graduate nurses are readily offered jobs prior to graduation. The positions that they are offered are usually those with the title graduate nurse or GN. For the most part, new graduates are looking for employment near their home. Since the general nursing student is now in their early to late thirties, they have already established a secure family base. While jobs for graduate nurses are plentiful it helps to have some idea of how many jobs are actually offered throughout the United States. The wonderful fact of being a nurse is that they can work just about anywhere.

The following information should be helpful in getting some idea of the pay for different nursing fields. Hospital Nurse Recruiters will inform the new graduate nurse that obtaining a bachelor degree in nursing is favored. Many hospitals will offer some form of tuition reimbursement for those nurses who seek to obtain a BSN degree. Tuition reimbursement can go as high as one hundred percent to fifty percent. For nurses who work in hospitals, there is a world of opportunity to move into many different nursing specialties. As the nurse gains more experience in their field, their salary will also increase. The salaries listed below are not all inclusive, but merely present to the reader a general idea of the salary range that exists. The reader should keep in mind that each hospital will be unique in what type of salary is offered depending on the nurses qualifications and prior work experience.

Just as you might think, large cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago hold the top spots for the number of nursing jobs available. The larger cities also have higher salaries and better benefits for their nurses. The tradeoff is longer hours and more stress in large city nursing jobs versus the small community jobs where hours are usually better and the number of patients to serve is lower.

The median expected salary for a typical Staff Nurse - RN in *Detroit**, MI*, is *$65,817*. This basic market pricing report was prepared using our Certified Compensation Professionals’ analysis of survey data collected from thousands of HR departments at employers of all sizes, industries and geographies.

Job Description

Staff Nurse - RN:

Evaluates, plans, implements, and documents nursing care for an assigned patient population. Assists physician during examinations and procedures. Performs various patient tests and administers medications within the scope of practice of the registered nurse. Promotes patient’s independence by establishing patient care goals and teaching patient and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills. Requires an associate’s degree and is certified as a registered nurse. Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of tasks. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department.

Registered Nurse Salaries

Staff RNs working in the United States average a median base salary of $41,642. Half of all US RN’s are expected to earn between $38,792 and $44,869. Nearly 67% of nurses are employed in hospital inpatient and outpatient settings. 32% of all nurses are employed in medical offices and clinics, home healthcare agencies, nursing homes, temporary help agencies, academia, and government agencies.

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Become an electrician and you will know how great the job is? Today electricity is in everyone’s day-to-day life. Televisions, computers, ovens, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, air conditioners etc., the list goes on. It’s interesting to know how all these appliances work. We all, in this modern world, are completely dependent on various kinds of electric appliances.

Become an electrician to have a great career. But that comes with its own advantages and disadvantages. Electricians are one of the important people in our society. Their work involves different challenges. To become an electrician, one needs to take up a great social responsibility. An incomplete work done by them may even cost others, their lives. To become an electrician one needs to have some special qualities within them. One has to have good mathematical skills as working in a technical field involves mathematical calculations. An electrician has to work with different types and colors of wires. To become an electrician it is necessary to have a good vision to differentiate between colors.

Technical work, like this, involves hard physical activities like climbing and hanging at different times. To become an electrician it is important to have a good body and health. Many people have a habit of wearing metal ornaments like golden necklace, bracelets, rings etc. To become an electrician it is important to practice safely and also keep others safe by take some common safety measures, like using things which are non conductors of electricity like rubber hat, rubber shoes, rubber gloves etc. Wearing the right kind of clothes on the job is also important. It is better to wear tight clothes on the field as loose clothes may interrupt your work and come in contact with wires while handling them. All the tools of an electrician must be kept in well organized manner. This will help in finishing the job well in time.

There are many options to become an electrician. One can just start working under a senior supervisor. This is called on-the-job training. You won’t get a certificate in this method. One can also join an apprenticeship program. This includes classroom as well as practical training. A proper certificate is issued after completion of this program. To become an electrician, it is better to have a certified academic course from a reputed university. Just completing a conventional electrician course is not enough to become an electrician. One has to take up a specialization subject like specialization in outdoor wiring, specialization in indoor wiring, specialization in maintenance, specialization in repairing household appliances, specialization in handling transponders, etc. After completing the course with specialization in one of the subject, it is better to take certification from a competent authority. This will keep you one step ahead of others. Research brings newer technologies every day. To become an electrician with latest technological knowledge, one has to keep appearing for exams as time changes to acquire latest certification and knowledge.

To become an electrician is easy, but to keep up yourself to the responsibilities, the job brings along is hard. If you like tackling challenges then you will love to become an electrician.

James Copper is a writer for http://www.electricianscareer.co.uk where you could find out how to become an electrician

An electrician is a person who installs & maintains electrical appliances. Electrician brings electricity in your home, offices, and companies. An Electrician usually deals with electrical fuse, wiring system from which electricity flows, and just about anything relevant to electricity.

Many organizations offer electrical training. One just needs to select a proper course and organization for himself to start off as an electrician. These electrical training courses may vary in duration. Long duration courses may extend to a period of about 2-3 years. Short term courses of 2-5 days are also available. In some institutes stress is given on theoretical knowledge but in today’s world practical knowledge is very important. So balance must be maintained between the two. You must approach Institutes which give good knowledge in both areas.

Some people prefer to learn via the age old method of apprenticeship. During apprenticeship students may also start earning. In electrical training courses, institutes generally focus on whether you are interested in construction or maintenance department. Some electricians have interest in both. Electricians who are interested in construction field of electrical training normally focus on installing wires in newly constructed houses, factories etc. Electricians in maintenance field work on upgrading existing electrical appliances and repair them.

The basic thing taught by any electrical training course is, how to read a blueprint. This blueprint is a print on which the project work is explained. A good electrician must not only read blue print but should also understand it quite well. Some electricians are interested to work in the field of low voltage appliances. They generally install video equipments such as security cameras, telephones, computers, security alarm, fire alarm, intercoms, etc. Electricians are also capable of installing coaxial cable in telecommunication field. In maintenance field electrical equipments are periodically checked as to whether they are working in proper conditions or not. And all this requires good electrical training.

Maintenance work of electrician in homes is quite simple as compared with a company’s maintenance work. In homes, maintenance work of electrician is concerned with rewiring of complete home, replacing boards, switches which are not functioning properly, etc. Maintenance in companies is a lot more complex and electricians have to repair transformer, machine tools, motors, etc. Hence, the electrical training required for commercial electricians is more complex than domestic electricians.

The job of an electrician is very risky as he comes in direct contact with electricity. He normally works from few millivolts up to many mega volts. He has to be alert about the danger. Accidents might occur very often in this field. Generally more than 600 people die every year. So an electrician must be very conscious while working. General precaution has to be taken by an electrician during his project site. Electricians working with heavy voltages should take all the necessary safety precautions. Safety is an essential part of electrical training.

Electrician work is physically very hard. Normally he has to work more than 40 hours a week. Over time in such field is quite normal. If you are interested in working in residential field then you can expect call at any time.

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In these troubled times in which we live, there exists a constant threat of disaster. Whether the disaster is man made, such as war or terrorism, or from nature, nursing has always been at the forefront. In the past, nurses were on the battlefield dressing the soldier’s wounds and giving emotional support to those whose time was at hand.

Formally, the occupation of nursing began with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean war. Even prior to that time there were those caring individuals who were first responders to disaster situations. Now more than ever, there is a need for nurses to become educated in the field of disaster nursing. The destruction unleashed by Hurricane Katrina tested the immediate response and mobilization of many doctors and nurses, as well as the merit of government response, to which in the final analysis the general consensus was one of “we could have done better.”

In spite of the many critics that abounded after the destruction, there stood those individuals who shined so brightly with their selflessness and compassion. These are nurses and doctors working around the clock in unsanitary conditions not unlike a battlefield hundreds of years ago.

One has to ask, “How is this possible in today’s world, with all of the state of the art technology that abounds in medicine and communications.” And yet, there it was in black and white, people were dying from lack of medical supplies and unsanitary conditions. The brave and caring souls who stood by and could perhaps only hold a hand, give a comforting touch, and say some kind word to someone who was taking their few last breaths were the ones that made the difference. Here was a case of disaster nursing like no other. These are men and women who stayed behind to care for the sick and dying, not knowing when or if any supplies would arrive.

In classes that are now taught currently in nursing schools on disaster nursing, the pervading theme for every new nurse to remember is to treat the walking wounded first. One would not think that this should be the case when someone is dying from blood loss or is badly wounded. Shouldn’t those who are so badly wounded be treated first? The experienced nursing instructor will nod her head and ask the student, “O.K., what happens when you exhaust all of your blood supplies on a patient that perhaps won’t last a few hours? What will you do when a patient who needs only minor care and does not get it due to your time expended on someone who is dying, goes into complications that could have been prevented? Now what kind of situation do you have?” The student nurse will not know what to reply. However the nursing instructor will reply the following, “Treat your walking wounded first. They will be your help.”

This statement may seem harsh at best. It is however the rule of the disaster scenario. There will be those that you cannot help, and that is a fact. Therefore, you must treat those that can be of help to the nurse. Once you have treated these people, they can then proceed to follow your instructions. They will be the ones to give CPR, wrap tourniquets and do whatever it is that the nurse thinks that they can handle. How many of us can actually imagine a situation like this? The nurses who assisted the wounded during Hurricane Katrina lived it day after day.

No one knows where or when a disaster may occur. We are constantly being bombarded by the news informing us of elevated terror threats using colors. The fact is that most people are never prepared for a disaster. This does not mean that we should not try. This is the reason for teaching disaster nursing in nursing schools. Nurses have to learn about how to be a leader, how to mobilize teams, and organize people. Not a small task. This is why that nurses should constantly update their knowledge.

With the advent of new types of biological and chemical warfare, scenarios such as Hurricane Katrina could pale in comparison. First of all, every nurse should register themselves with a local emergency response team in their area. Secondly, every nurse should begin to read and obtain various continuing education credits in the field of disaster nursing. Hopefully they will never have to use their new found knowledge. However, if the time were to arrive that their nursing experience was required, then they would have some idea what to do. For it is their decision making and leadership skills that will facilitate saving the most people, and it is very possible that they will be alone in making such decisions.

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