Nursing

   Here we are to the final blog post, and I have saved the best for last.   Have you ever imagined being able to work and having fun at the same time? Or even travel for free? Well if you did, this is the right job for you. Travel nurses are registered nurses from diverse clinical backgrounds, who are temporarily assigned to different care areas with a very high-need to fill in short-term gaps. It can basically be a hospital, a clinic or care-areas with patients needing care but  are short on staff and need a nurse quickly. In reason of these shortages, health care facilities have a lot of positions that need to be filled out, and travel nurses happened to be the ones to fill those open positions. They usually treat patients across the country (city, provinces, states) or outside the country as international travel nurses. Those nurses are very important because they increase patients safety and lower mortality. To become a travel nurse you should first pursue ...

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...