Changes in Nursing
Nursing is the process associated with maintaining the well-being of an individual or a family, to ensure they maintain a high standard of health. A nursing process commonly incorporates these things; evaluation, planning and assesses to ensure that the person will recover to the maximum possible health and strength they require. In other words, nurses promote life and prevent disease and illness.
Nurse career paths and people who choose to take certain leads will find themselves working in a range of aspects- in emergency affairs, or in individuals home, especially old people and nursing homes. Nursing take a high approach on life and provide benefits to others as well as numerous challenges the staff must overcome themselves in order to achieve this. Those particularly challenging fields of specialisation include dealing with serious trauma and injuries in the emergency area of work and may also find themselves involved in surgery (i.e. A&E department) or again, independently or with younger children, providing them with everything they need to know before an operation or applying them with necessities to go in.
But all this has drastically changed in the past few years, as the skill is highly sought out as a profession and the quality of pay is on the rise. For example, the NHS in England, Scotland and Wales will take from people's taking and put a certain percentage of this into NHS funding to pay for the operations and healthcare, but also to pay the staff and nurses, meaning this concept ensures you get an emergency operation free when you most need it, inevitably from the majority of the population's taxation.
However, another factor affecting this is how nursing has moved to the homes of people, such as women needing to be hydrated thoroughly during pregnancy and IV antibiotics to be administered. Other methods of nursing in other people's home include IV therapy, which allows them to work with people at home, bringing the necessities to them and even carry out the process of chemotherapy in a person's home. If anything, nursing has changed in becoming more diverse; more career opportunities are being discovered and nurses claim they are often very busy. But changing beneficially can also be debatable.
During the last couple of years, many young nurses have found it difficult to cope and lead a normal life. Nursing, as well as being well-paid, is a very demanding job which requires devotion in many career paths and taking extra time out with patients every so often. Nursing for the younger especially can be very traumatic watching their unfortunate patients die, and they often can't handle it, or can't handle being away from friends and fun for a while. Older nurses claim they are used to it, and enjoy the pleasurable benefits of saving lives.
The figures display just how significant the demand for nurses is, due to demographic (meaning selected population aspects/characteristics) factors. The US Labour Government has proclaimed that the rise between around 2006 and 2016 will be around 23%. (source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing#The_high_demand_for_nurses_in_the_US).
Obviously technology has aided and has been affiliated with several zones of nursing successfully. During the 20th Century, minor tweaks applied included digital thermometers instead of mercury filled glass ones, and then the intensive care unit which nurses applied their skills to. Then came PET scanners, enabling doctors to see the patients inside spaces and allow diagnosis to be much more quicker as well as precise. Laser therapy and many more have helped the health aspects of this world and if anything, nursing has been there to use it's skills with this machinery so people's lives can forevermore be improved with nursing and technology.
