Career opportunities are more varied now for a numbers of reasons.
The list of opportunities available are given under: |
Staff Nurse provides direct patient care to one patient or a group of patients. Assists ward management and supervision. |
Ward Nursing Supervisor is responsible to the nursing superintendent for the nursing care management of a ward or unit. Takes full charge of the ward. Assigns work to nursing and non-nursing personnel working in the ward. Responsible for safety and comfort of patients and provides teaching sessions if it is a teaching hospital. |
Assistant Nursing Superintendent is responsible to the nursing superintendent and deputy nursing superintendent for the nursing care and management of more than one ward or unit. Example – Surgical department. Out-patient department. |
Deputy Nursing Superintendent is responsible to the nursing superintendent and assists in the nursing administration of the hospital. |
Nursing Superintendent is responsible to the medical superintendent for safe and efficient management of hospital nursing services. |
Director of Nursing is responsible for both nursing service and nursing educations within a teaching hospital. |
Community Health Nurse (CHN) services rendered mainly focusing Reproductive Child Health programme. |
Nursing Teacher plans, teaches and supervises the learning experiences for the students. Positions in nursing education are Clinical Instructor, Tutor, Senior Tutor, Assistant Professor/Lecturer, Associate Professor/Reader and Professor in nursing. |
Industrial Nurseprovides first aid, care during illness, health educations about industrial hazards and prevention of accidents. |
Military Nurse is a part of the Indian Army by which means nurses become commissioned officers who are given rank from Lieutenant to Major General. |
Abroad the nursing profession attracts good salaries and promising professional opportunities. |
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