Get a Job . . . in Nursing: What You Need to Know to Start Your Career
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The nursing field is as competitive as ever, but The Get A Job Series will help give you an edge! Inside you’ll find expert advice and helpful tips on choosing where to work, exams you need to take, what to expect on your first day, and options you have to advance your career. It’s tough out there, but with the right guide your dream job is within reach.
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Get a Job . . . in Nursing - Adams Media
Get a Job in Nursing
What You Need to Know to Start Your Career
Adams Media, a division of F+W Media, Inc.
Avon, Massachusetts
Contents
Introduction
Deciding Where to Work
It’s Not Easy to Find a Job
Why Choose a Large Teaching Hospital?
Passing the NCLEX
Being a Hospital Nurse
Growing Opportunities in Health Care
The Occupations Most in Demand
Health Care Roles Defined
The Nine Major Segments of Health Care
Inpatient Facilities
Outpatient Facilities
Nursing Is a Lifelong Learning Experience
Soak Up Knowledge Like a Sponge
In-Services, Seminars, and Journals
Look for Opportunities to Improve Your Skills
Keeping Up to Date with Pharmacology
New Treatments and New Products
Health Care Is Constantly Evolving
How Health Care Reform Is Changing Nursing
Setting Future Career Goals
Advanced Degrees
Specialty Training and Opportunities
Other Roles for Nurses
Professional Organizations
Networking
Get Business Cards
Moving to Another Department
Also Available
Copyright Page
Introduction
For more than 10 years, millions of readers have trusted the bestselling Everything series for expert advice and important information on business topics ranging from practice interviews and resumes to personal finance and investments. Packed with the most recent, up-to-date data, Get a Job in Nursing helps you choose the right job, provides you with the tools to get that job, and shows you how to set your future goals. This book focuses on only the information you need to get a job.
If you’ve picked up this book, chances are you are either a recent graduate facing the stiff competition in a crowded field or a veteran in the field looking for a leg up on the competition.
Nursing is one of the most physically and emotionally demanding careers. You must have a great deal of physical stamina and a strong sense of humor to perform your daily duties. Nurses combine the art of caring with a broad scientific knowledge base to provide care, promote wellness, and improve the lives of patients. It takes strong communication skills, both written and oral, combined with a scientific mind and a warm heart and soul to form the foundation for a good nurse. Along with all of these difficult tasks, the job market has become very competitive. This guide is meant to help you get a new job because, as a nurse, you already have enough to worry about.
If you’d like to learn more about nursing, check out The Everything New Nurse Book, 2nd Edition, available in print (978-1- 4405-2687-9) and eBook (978-1- 4405-2760-9) formats.
Deciding Where to Work
Even if you have a very specific idea of where you want to work and what you would like to specialize in, you will be well served to have a well-rounded background of med-surg (medical-surgical) experience to build on if possible.
It’s Not Easy to Find a Job
The economic downturn that began in 2000 and became a recession by 2008 adversely affected the health care industry in many ways. Job losses and dissolving 401k and other retirement funds caused many older nurses to delay retirement or to return to the field from an inactive status or retirement. Employers grabbed up these experienced nurses in lieu of hiring new grad nurses.
Health care jobs were already becoming scarce because increasing unemployment decreased the numbers of people with health care insurance. In uncertain times, elective care is often put on hold. And even in the face of a pandemic from the H1N1 flu virus, Americans scrambled to do everything possible to stay well and avoid the high costs of health care. Consequently, there were far fewer hospitalizations from complications