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Published: September 27, 2006
Employment within nursing homes is expected to rapidly grow in the near future; as a result, prospective nursing students trying to decide on a specialty should consider a career in a nursing home.
Contributing factors include decrease in the length in hospital stays, faster patient discharge rates, increases in the population of older adults and limited nurses in the field. Nursing homes are in need of nursing professional, especially those trained in geriatrics.
Nursing homes are facilities for older adults needing nursing care. These include older adults with certain diseases, such as Alzheimer's, older adults with physical limitations or fractures, and older adults requiring end-of-life care. These patients usually are permanent residents.
To work in a nursing home, a nurse must have patience and compassion. Because they are essentially working at the patients’ home, nurses must be able to develop good relationships with not only their patients, but also their patients' families. It is the nurses’ responsibility to make the environment as comfortable as possible.
Nurses working in nursing homes wear many different hats. Duties are not limited to patient care; they also include administrative and supervisory tasks. Other duties include monitoring and caring for the patients' health and creating treatment plans. Nurses also are required to administer specialty care, such as rehabilitation, for residents suffering from strokes or sprains.
Nursing homes employ many different levels of nursing professionals. Employment opportunities exist for nursing aides, licensed practitioner nurses (LPN), licensed vocational nurses (LVN), registered nurses (RN) and advanced degree nurses (ADN). Nurses with a master's level degree in Geriatrics or an advanced practice nurse (APN) have even better career prospects within nursing homes.
There are two types of APN nurses: geriatric nurse practitioners and gerontological clinical nurse. The geriatric nurse practitioner is responsible for providing health care to nursing home patients. The gerontological clinical nurse operates more as an educator. This type of APN nurse informs and consults patients, families and health care providers. Nurses with an advanced degree in either area will receive the best salaries in nursing homes.
Working at a nursing home is not only beneficial to APN nurses. Nursing homes also require help from nursing aides, LPNs, LVNs and RNs. A career in a nursing home is perfect for those who want to specialize in older adult care or prefer working with and caring for older adults.
Sources:
Creating Careers in a Geriatric Advanced Practice Nursing. 2006. The John Harford Foundation. 21 September 2006. < www.jhartfound.org/pdf%20files/APNS.pdf>.
Nursing Career Overview. 2003. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. 21 September 2006.< http://www.mayo.edu/mshs/rn-career.html >.
Contributing factors include decrease in the length in hospital stays, faster patient discharge rates, increases in the population of older adults and limited nurses in the field. Nursing homes are in need of nursing professional, especially those trained in geriatrics.
Nursing homes are facilities for older adults needing nursing care. These include older adults with certain diseases, such as Alzheimer's, older adults with physical limitations or fractures, and older adults requiring end-of-life care. These patients usually are permanent residents.
To work in a nursing home, a nurse must have patience and compassion. Because they are essentially working at the patients’ home, nurses must be able to develop good relationships with not only their patients, but also their patients' families. It is the nurses’ responsibility to make the environment as comfortable as possible.
Nurses working in nursing homes wear many different hats. Duties are not limited to patient care; they also include administrative and supervisory tasks. Other duties include monitoring and caring for the patients' health and creating treatment plans. Nurses also are required to administer specialty care, such as rehabilitation, for residents suffering from strokes or sprains.
Nursing homes employ many different levels of nursing professionals. Employment opportunities exist for nursing aides, licensed practitioner nurses (LPN), licensed vocational nurses (LVN), registered nurses (RN) and advanced degree nurses (ADN). Nurses with a master's level degree in Geriatrics or an advanced practice nurse (APN) have even better career prospects within nursing homes.
There are two types of APN nurses: geriatric nurse practitioners and gerontological clinical nurse. The geriatric nurse practitioner is responsible for providing health care to nursing home patients. The gerontological clinical nurse operates more as an educator. This type of APN nurse informs and consults patients, families and health care providers. Nurses with an advanced degree in either area will receive the best salaries in nursing homes.
Working at a nursing home is not only beneficial to APN nurses. Nursing homes also require help from nursing aides, LPNs, LVNs and RNs. A career in a nursing home is perfect for those who want to specialize in older adult care or prefer working with and caring for older adults.
Sources:
Creating Careers in a Geriatric Advanced Practice Nursing. 2006. The John Harford Foundation. 21 September 2006. < www.jhartfound.org/pdf%20files/APNS.pdf>.
Nursing Career Overview. 2003. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. 21 September 2006.< http://www.mayo.edu/mshs/rn-career.html >.
