Essay - Career Opportunities in the Early 1900s There Were Very Few...

Career Opportunities

In the early 1900s *****re were very few options open to a newly graduated nurse for practicing her profession. Nursing as described by Florence Nightingale in ***** "Notes on Nursing: what it is and what it is not" has come a long way since then. However, ***** nurse graduates the employment opportun*****ies in the early 1900s were quite limited ***** ranged from teaching to supervision in hospital ***** staff nursing to private duty -- sometimes in ***** hospitals but generally at home where the ***** was working for 24 hours a day. Today ***** ***** profession offers a myriad of opportunities- a range of nurse specialists are engaged in practicing within the setting ***** ***** hospital; additionally they are also being hired by the ***** to present a li*****ison between community health services and the hospital so that the continuity in the care of the patient can be ensured. (Bur*****n, 1979)

Formerly LPNs ***** Licensed Practical Nurses used to work only in nursing homes ***** hospitals. Today LPNs ***** with people from different walks of life and are employed in facilities of all k*****ds. Hospitals still are the most popular place ***** employment for the *****. Within the hospital ********** are diverse areas where the LPNs may work for experience- the intensive care unit, the coronary care *****, the pediatric unit, the maternity ward, etc. Supervising nursing assistants can ***** done by ***** who are employed in hospitals. Nursing homes, which fall under ***** range of *****-term care facilities, ***** *****fer various opportunities to the LPNs. There are also many options available for home-***** facilities ********** demand is increasing due to the mandate of insurance companies to make hospital stays shorter. Another advantage in home care facility ***** ***** the LPN may either be self-employed or ***** seek employment ***** a home healthcare agency. Self-employed LPNs can serve as private duty nurses ***** a he*****lthcare facility ***** at the ********** resident. Besides this there are various other employment opportunities ***** for ********** substance abuse clinics, schools, psychiatric *****, fitness centers, welfare and religious organizations, specialized mobile units, etc. There is a dem***** for them in each and every part of the country, however, places where ***** ***** a shortage ***** nurses and other urban areas provide greater job opportunities. (Institute for Research, Prescott, 2005)

Apart from the ***** areas, there is also a requirement for a larger number of health professionals in remote and rural health car sett*****gs as identified by the government ***** rural ***** bodies. It has been suggested that providing undergraduates with the chance for experiencing a rural clinical placement could be a good str*****tegy for prospective health professionals to gain knowledge and understanding of ***** ***** opportunities in the rural workplace. A study was conducted at the Queensland University ***** Technology in Australia. This study tried to f*****d out the factors which influence the undergraduate nurse students in choosing either ***** or metropolitan clinic for their placement. ***** was found ***** prior work experience