The profession of nursing covers a large area of the healthcare sector. However, this job seems to be exciting, but it is challenging as well as it includes panoptic responsibilities that are directed towards patients’ care and treatment. A loving, dedicated and gentle nature are more important and necessary requirements, rather than the on-paper qualification, to become a nurse. One should have immense patience to efficaciously take care of the physically weak, injured, infants, old patients, and also mentally challenged patients. A good physical strength and stamina would be an addition to the performance of this physically demanding job.
As these nursing skills and knowledge are not in-built and nor can be learnt on your own, so it requires you to undergo some specialized training to learn all the skills and knowledge in order to work as professional nurses. Completing a course in nursing may lead to job opportunities as a general nurse on duty or work in hospital, nursing homes, and specialized nurses, etc. and your job profile may deal with surgical cases, maternity patients or pediatric cases. Following the rapid development in this sector, nursing education and care has also been constantly improving. A nursing course can be joined right after passing your X or XII standard, although the course duration will vary accordingly.
After the 10th standard, one can seek admission on merit-basis in the 18-month auxiliary nurse midwife course or multipurpose health worker courses. And after 12th, you can also pursue a three-year diploma course in general nursing or a B.Sc in Nursing from any of the esteemed nursing colleges in India. The admission procedure in this course includes an entrance exam in which students from science backgrounds are mostly preferred. Apart from these courses, there are also certificate courses available for various specializations in nursing such as general nursing (GN), general nursing midwife (GNM), and male nursing (MN). Most of the people are living with a misconception that nursing courses are only meant for women, whereas the fact is that a nursing course has seats for male candidates too.
Other than the multiple jobs performed by nurses, their daily job requires observing the condition of patients and then informing the doctors of the daily progress report or in case if there is any emergency with the patient. However, the demand for nurses is now not limited only within India, it has gone worldwide and is offering lucrative jobs in Gulf and western countries as well.
