Registered Nurses

Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required.

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

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Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

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Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

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Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

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Record patients' medical information and vital signs.

Maintain accurate, detailed reports and records.

Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients' conditions.

Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans.

Direct or supervise less-skilled nursing or healthcare personnel or supervise a particular unit.

Instruct individuals, families, or other groups on topics such as health education, disease prevention, or childbirth and develop health improvement programs.

Monitor all aspects of patient care, including diet and physical activity.

Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients' responses and conditions.

Observe nurses and visit patients to ensure proper nursing care.

Assess the needs of individuals, families, or communities, including assessment of individuals' home or work environments, to identify potential health or safety problems.

Prepare patients for and assist with examinations or treatments.

Work with individuals, groups, or families to plan or implement programs designed to improve the overall health of communities.

Perform administrative or managerial functions, such as taking responsibility for a unit's staff, budget, planning, or long-range goals.

Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition.

Prescribe or recommend drugs, medical devices, or other forms of treatment, such as physical therapy, inhalation therapy, or related therapeutic procedures.

Direct or coordinate infection control programs, advising or consulting with specified personnel about necessary precautions.

Provide health care, first aid, immunizations, or assistance in convalescence or rehabilitation in locations such as schools, hospitals, or industry.

Administer medications to patients and monitor patients for reactions or side effects.

Prepare rooms, sterile instruments, equipment, or supplies and ensure that stock of supplies is maintained.

Refer students or patients to specialized health resources or community agencies furnishing assistance.

Administer local, inhalation, intravenous, or other anesthetics.

Perform physical examinations, make tentative diagnoses, and treat patients en route to hospitals or at disaster site triage centers.

Provide or arrange for training or instruction of auxiliary personnel or students.

Engage in research activities related to nursing.

Consult with institutions or associations regarding issues or concerns relevant to the practice and profession of nursing.

Inform physician of patient's condition during anesthesia.

Angiocaths

Anti-embolism elastic stockings

Apnea monitors

Aqua K pads

Arterial blood gas testing equipment

Arterial line catheters

Audiometers

Autoclaves

Automated medicine dispensing equipment

Autotransfusion systems

Bag-valve masks

Balanced suspension traction equipment

Bed scales

Bilevel positive airway pressure BiPAP ventilators

Bilimeters

Binocular light compound microscopes

Bladder irrigation equipment

Blood collection needles

Blood warming equipment

Bucks traction equipment

Canes

Capillary glucose monitors

Cardiac monitor electrodes

Cardiac monitors

Centrifuges

Cervical collars

Cervical traction equipment

Chemotherapy spill kits

Colonoscopy equipment

Colposcopes

Computerized electrocardiography EKG and hemodynamic monitoring systems

Continuous enteral feeding equipment

Continuous passive motion CPM machines

Continuous positive airway pressure CPAP ventilators

Cooling blankets

Crutches

Curved hemostats

Defibrillators

Doppler pulse measurement devices

Double lumen catheters

Electrocardiography EKG units

Electronic blood pressure monitors

Electrosurgical devices

Endotracheal ET tubes

Enema equipment

Epidural catheters

Epidural pumps

Evacuated blood collection tubes

Fetal monitors

Fetal scalp electrodes

Flash sterilizers

Flexible sigmoidoscopes

Gait belts

Gastrointestinal GI endoscopes

Glucose testing equipment

Grounding pads

Head immobilizers

Heelstick blood sampling equipment

Hemostats

Hemovac drains

Heparin locks

Hospital beds

Hyper/hypothermia blankets

Incentive spirometers

Infant security sensors

Infant warmers

Infusion control devices

Infusion pump enteral feeding tubes

Insulin pumps

Intermittent enteral feeding equipment

Intra-aortic balloon pumps IABP

Intracranial pressure monitors

Intramuscular needles

Intravenous IV equipment

Intravenous IV tubing

Intravenous syringe pumps

Intubation stylets

Isolettes

Jackson-Pratt drains

Lancets

Laryngoscope blades

Laser printers

Leather restraints

Levine tubes

Limb restraints

Loop electrosurgical excision procedure LEEP equipment

Lower extremity prosthetic devices

Lukens traps

Manometers

Manual blood pressure monitors

Manual resuscitation bags

Manually operated oxygen supply resuscitators

Mayo trays

Mechanical lift devices

Mechanical stethoscopes

Meconium aspirators

Medical encyclopedias

Medical tuning forks

Nasal cannulas

Nasal suctioning equipment

I wold recommend them to weigh their options. Options on schools, degrees, financial aspects, etc. A traditional campus setting vs online classes. Do your research to find the best fit for you! Follow your dreams!

A typical day at work for me involved helping moms deliver babies, lot of education and teaching, helping breastfeed, passing medications, tons of charting and documentation, changing diapers, calming nerves and reassuring overwhelmed parents.

Registered Nurse

I have not had any discouragement from the path I've chosen.

Katelyn Spahr

Registered Nurse

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My work combines:

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Katelyn Spahr

Registered Nurse

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My work combines:

My work combines:

Medicine

Technology

Helping People

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