Nursing job

Patients in hospitals, patients at home, or patients in other settings who are suffering from chronic or acute physical or mental ill health are the patients that nurses plan care for and deliver medical and nursing care to.

What does a nurse do? Common employers | Education and experience requirements | Essential skill sets

Nurses are members of a larger professional and medical staff team that also consists of other healthcare professionals such as physicians, social workers, and therapists.

Typical responsibilities of the position are as follows:

determining and organizing the necessary nursing care services

provide care both before and after an operation

maintaining patient safety by watching over medicines and giving intravenous infusions

collecting patient samples and measuring their blood pressures, pulses, and temperatures

putting things in writing

supervising junior staff

organising workloads

giving patients and their family members with emotional support

tutoring student nurses

There is a possibility that the position may need you to perform 24-hour shifts.

Employers that often hire nurses

Hospitals

NHS trusts

Residential homes

Prisons

Agencies

Centers for medical care

Schools

Companies

GP practices

Vacancies may be found in a variety of places, including online, in newspapers, on the website for NHS employment, and in periodicals like Nursing Times and Nursing Standard.

Qualifications and experience are expected of applicants.

The primary way to get qualified to work as a nurse is to acquire a nursing degree in either adult nursing, children's nursing, learning disability nursing, or mental health nursing. These are the four sub-fields that make up the nursing profession. Some degree programs are characterized as "dual field" degrees because they cover both of these subjects simultaneously. With a few notable exceptions, such as dual field degrees and nursing degrees in Scotland, the majority of nursing degree programs last for a period of three years. Degree programs in nursing combine classroom instruction with clinical rotations to provide students a well-rounded education.

UCAS is the application process that must be followed in order to get full-time undergraduate nursing degrees. The requirements for applying can vary, but in general, you will need at least two (and frequently three) A levels or qualifications that are equivalent to those, in addition to a minimum of five GCSEs with a grade C (the equivalent of a grade 4), including English, mathematics, and a science subject (usually biology).

Postgraduate students with a bachelor's degree in a related field, such as the life, health, biological, or social sciences, may qualify by completing a condensed version of the program that lasts just two years. APEL is the acronym that refers to the procedure that validates your first degree (accreditation of prior experiential learning). UCAS and the NHS health jobs website both provide further resources on accelerated nursing courses designed for recent college grads. In order to determine whether or not your degree program meets the requirements for admittance into a particular college, you will need to make direct contact with that institution.

Apprenticeships leading to a bachelor's degree in nursing are currently being provided by a select few NHS organizations. They are comparable to nursing degrees in that they include both classroom instruction and clinical practice, but in contrast to nursing degrees, they are directed by employers rather than educational institutions. Apprentices working for nursing degrees get permission from their employers to attend classes leading to a degree on a part-time basis while simultaneously gaining practical experience in the form of rotations across a variety of clinical settings. Since the apprenticeship is at the degree level, level 3 credentials (also known as A levels or their equivalents) are often necessary in order to be eligible. You may search for nursing degree apprenticeships on the website of the National Health Service (NHS) employment or on the website of the government's apprenticeship search. Candidates who have already finished an apprenticeship for a nursing associate will be able to complete an apprenticeship for a nursing degree in a shorter amount of time than other candidates, because the nursing associate apprenticeship will count toward the completion of the nursing degree apprenticeship.

The nursing associate apprenticeship is a training program that will last for two years and will be put through its paces beginning in 2018. Academic learning occurs once per week for nursing associates, while the other six days of the week are spent engaging in work-based learning in a variety of environments. If you want to apply, you need to have General Skills for Education (GSCE) in math and English at grade 9 to 4 (A to C) or the equivalent. The website for NHS health careers has further resources for anyone interested in learning more about nursing associate apprenticeships.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council requires registration from every nurse and midwife who works in the United Kingdom (NMC). Students who have successfully completed their nursing degrees are provided with contact information for the NMC by their respective institutions. The NMC subsequently gets in touch with the students to provide instructions on how to establish an online account and submit an application for registration. This will cost you a total of £120 in fees. Nurses are obliged to revalidate their registration every three years, in addition to having their registration renewed annually along with the payment of the annual registration cost. In order to revalidate their registration, nurses are required to have completed a minimum of 450 hours of registered practice and a minimum of 35 hours of continuous professional development (CPD) during the previous three years.

Any experience caring for or working with people, such as at a hospice or care home, might be useful when applying for nursing training.

Key competencies for nurses

Optimal health and physical fitness

disposition that is both kind and empathetic

Excellent interpersonal and teamwork abilities.

Observational skills

Capacity for taking the initiative

Capacity to cope with events that are emotionally intense and high in pressure

abilities in both verbal and writing communication

Resilience

Stamina