Nursing

A nurse midwife is essentially a registered nurse that gets additional training as a midwife and specializes in women’s reproductive health and childbirth. Nurse midwives deliver infants, provide care to women during pregnancy, the postpartum period (the postpartum period begins right after childbirth and usually ends within 6 weeks), and after the baby is born. Most of the time they work with doctors, social workers, dietitians, physicians etc. A nurse midwife can perform many task but the common ones include: oversee birth complications, help with pain managing, performing episiotomies (surgery that consist of opening the perineum at the time of birth to let the child pass) when needed, educate new parents on infant care, assisting new mothers that are breastfeeding, preparing pregnant women on what to expect during the birthing process and more. Nurse midwives are excellent with building strong relationships, work well during stressful situations, as well as giving support during em...

  In this blog I'll be talking about the job of a surgical assistant nurse and their role. First of all, Surgical assistant nurses or perioperative nurses, are a critical part of the healthcare team because they assist patients and make sure they are in good condition before, during and after surgery. They are usually working alongside the surgeons, the surgical technician, the nurse anesthetists, and the nurse practitioners in the OR “operating room” to help them and make sure everything goes nice and smoothly. There are many different types of surgical nurses that a registered nurse can pursue and all of them are important to insure a successful surgical procedures some of these types of nursing include: scrub nurses( go in the surgery with the doctor and the patient, prepare the operation, make sure the tolls are sterile and ready to be use) circulating nurses ( go over the consent forms, the procedure, update family members)  Rn first assistants (Work directly with the doc...

     Like I previously said in my first blog, nursing has a vast variety of domains and workplaces, and in this blog I will be talking about what a Paramedic is, their role and various workplaces. A Paramedic is a professional highly-trained to arrive at an emergency scene, to provide emergency care, transport to people who are injured or ill and sometimes execute life-saving procedures while transporting the patients to the hospital. They commonly work outside hospital settings. Their role is to respond to emergency calls 911 that could be a sudden illness, heart attacks, allergic reactions, labor/delivery, a car accident, or even an industrial accident and to provide care in route to a medical facility. They are trained to use the proper techniques for first aid, medical treatments and much more, transport patients, educate others on health and safety issues. Paramedical occupations mainly work 59% of the time in Ambulatory health care services, 23% of the time in local...

  Starting off with a general introduction of what is nursing and what it consists of, nursing is one of the many professions in the healthcare department, it is a profession  that envelops autonomous and collaborative care for people of all ages like for example, the families, the children, the elderly etc, and that is exactly what I like about it. Doors are open for different varieties of things and it is also possible to explore any of them. Nurses play a pretty big and demanding role in health-care. They are usually the first one to detect health emergencies, they also deliver primary health care. Now when it comes to what exactly nurses do there is a vast variety of things like, for example, preparing patients for anesthesia, administering, maintaining anesthesia during medical procedure, illness prevention,  treatment, rehabilitation, administering medicine, examining patient records, doctor assistant and so much more. That is why there is no specific answer for it,...