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| Nurse | The nurse cares and gives advice to patients, educates the public regarding many medical conditions. They need a large knowledge base to evaluate, plan, prevent disease and promote good health to the patients. This includes home care needs, teaching patients to control their medication, physical therapy, exercises and diet programs.
A general nurse make records of her patient's symptoms, keep them up to date, operate medical equipment, and often help with diagnostic tests, administer medications and treatment. Some of them work with the public, telling them about various illnesses, diseases and tell people what they should do if they need help. They gather patients’ significant signs, including heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature. They are also giving injection, enemas, and massages to their patients; watching catheters; dressing wounds and incisions; and taking care of bedsores. The nurses observe the patients’ reactions to drugs and treatments and inform to the patients’ doctors. They help patients change clothes and bathe if they needed.
Common work activities include:
• Meeting with patients to discuss their health worries, complete family and medical history and update or make medical graph and information.
• Helping, comforting and supporting patients during different procedures.
• Helping with feeding, bathing, medicating and treating patients in hospital or long term care facilities.
• Educating and training on basic medical care for patients.
• Charting, recording and data entry as needed.
Earnings Information
Licensed practical nurses earned a median $31,440. The best of them made more than $44,040 while the lowest made less than $22,860. Their middle salaries are between $26,430 and $37,050.
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