Welcome to the ShiftMed blog where we discuss everything nursing, from professional insights to healthcare holidays to helpful hints for working with us.
Nursing may be a profession taken for granted in the U.S. (just like teachers), but the numbers speak differently to their value. As a career, there’s a lot of flexibility, stability, and earning potential working as a nurse.
A nurse administrator supervises and manages all nurses in a hospital or healthcare facility. They are responsible for recruiting and hiring new nurses, organizing work schedules, and performing regular performance reviews for nurses on various floors.
When facing a life-or-death health problem, a trauma nurse is right by your side. These individuals are trained to deal with the worst and most life-threatening situations.
A hospice nurse specializing in end-of-life and palliative care may be one of the most challenging nursing specialties. They support patients with terminal diagnoses and their families and ensure they are comfortable and content.
Nurse practitioners are advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) who have undergone extensive training to treat their own patients. A nurse practitioner (NP) is a blend between a clinician and a nurse. They can examine, diagnose, and treat their own patients, and in some states, they can also write and dispense prescriptions. Nurse practitioners (NPs) are at the highest level of nursing. They often work in physician’s offices, and some states even allow them to open their own practices.
Flight nurses are by their side when patients must be transported to hospitals by plane or helicopter. They perform the same tasks as registered nurses, just thousands of feet in the air. Those who work on first-response teams may also specialize in trauma care.
