Specialty-Nursing Career

My career choice is nursing. In this essay, I will be explaining a few different specialty-nursing careers that someone could go into. The specialties I chose are ones that I would prefer to go into after graduation. The following essay will be about the duties that each specialty could include and the schooling that is preferred with each. Nursing can be a difficult but very rewarding job. The first nursing specialty is an Emergency/ Trauma nurse. These types of nurses are the first healthcare worker a patient may see when they arrive in the emergency room. The nurse quickly tries to recognize the life threatening problems and helps to solve the issues that a patient has (Johnson). Other duties include, minimizing pain in the patient, stabilizing the patient, teach the patient how to prevent injuries, and quickly uncovering
A NICU nurse is a Neonatal Intensive Care Nurse. These nurses take care of either premature babies or babies that are born that need medical attention right away. Nurses working in this unit will be giving the baby oxygen if needed and feed the intravenously also if needed, to help the baby gain weight. A nurse will help the parents by explaining how to care the newborn, explain the baby’s condition and any questions they may have. Other duties that this nurse may do includes, monitoring the babies condition, administer drugs that are needed for the newborn, record the progress, change the baby’s diaper, and hold and comfort the baby when it is in distress ( Johnson-NICU). This certain nursing job will also take a good amount of schooling in order to become a NICU nurse. First, the nurse will have to pass their NCLEX. During this time, you can work as an RN, and begin to work with neonatal patients before you take a certification exam for neonatal nursing. This exam will be through the Association of Critical Care Nursing. Once this is finished, the nurse is officially an NICU nurse