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    Get a Job . . . in Nursing: What You Need to Know to Start Your Career
    Get a Job . . . in Nursing: What You Need to Know to Start Your Career
    Get a Job . . . in Nursing: What You Need to Know to Start Your Career
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    Get a Job . . . in Nursing: What You Need to Know to Start Your Career

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    Whether you’re a recent graduate seeking your first job, or a seasoned job hunter looking for a new career challenge, The Get A Job Series is here to help. These concise, indispensable guides offer expert advice on locating potential jobs, matching your skills to the right position, and everything else you need to land your dream job.

    The nursing field is as competitive as ever, but The Get A Job Series will help give you an edge! Inside you’ll find expert advice and helpful tips on choosing where to work, exams you need to take, what to expect on your first day, and options you have to advance your career. It’s tough out there, but with the right guide your dream job is within reach.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster
    Release dateMay 1, 2012
    ISBN9781440545511
    Get a Job . . . in Nursing: What You Need to Know to Start Your Career
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    Adams Media

    Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, informs, instructs, and inspires readers across a variety of lifestyle categories by providing the content they’re looking for, from the experts they follow and trust. From New Age to Personal Finance, Cooking to Self-Help, Adams Media researches, identifies, creates, and distributes accessible content with implicit discoverability. Embodying a uniquely flexible “ground-up” publishing model, Adams Media navigates within or between consumer categories as market opportunity dictates. These are the books people are searching for. 

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      Get a Job . . . in Nursing - Adams Media

      Get a Job in Nursing cover

      Get a Job in Nursing

      What You Need to Know to Start Your Career

      Adams Media, a division of F+W Media, Inc.

      Avon, Massachusetts

      Contents

      Introduction

      Deciding Where to Work

      It’s Not Easy to Find a Job

      Why Choose a Large Teaching Hospital?

      Passing the NCLEX

      Being a Hospital Nurse

      Growing Opportunities in Health Care

      The Occupations Most in Demand

      Health Care Roles Defined

      The Nine Major Segments of Health Care

      Inpatient Facilities

      Outpatient Facilities

      Nursing Is a Lifelong Learning Experience

      Soak Up Knowledge Like a Sponge

      In-Services, Seminars, and Journals

      Look for Opportunities to Improve Your Skills

      Keeping Up to Date with Pharmacology

      New Treatments and New Products

      Health Care Is Constantly Evolving

      How Health Care Reform Is Changing Nursing

      Setting Future Career Goals

      Advanced Degrees

      Specialty Training and Opportunities

      Other Roles for Nurses

      Professional Organizations

      Networking

      Get Business Cards

      Moving to Another Department

      Also Available

      Copyright Page

      Introduction

      For more than 10 years, millions of readers have trusted the bestselling Everything series for expert advice and important information on business topics ranging from practice interviews and resumes to personal finance and investments. Packed with the most recent, up-to-date data, Get a Job in Nursing helps you choose the right job, provides you with the tools to get that job, and shows you how to set your future goals. This book focuses on only the information you need to get a job.

      If you’ve picked up this book, chances are you are either a recent graduate facing the stiff competition in a crowded field or a veteran in the field looking for a leg up on the competition.

      Nursing is one of the most physically and emotionally demanding careers. You must have a great deal of physical stamina and a strong sense of humor to perform your daily duties. Nurses combine the art of caring with a broad scientific knowledge base to provide care, promote wellness, and improve the lives of patients. It takes strong communication skills, both written and oral, combined with a scientific mind and a warm heart and soul to form the foundation for a good nurse. Along with all of these difficult tasks, the job market has become very competitive. This guide is meant to help you get a new job because, as a nurse, you already have enough to worry about.

      If you’d like to learn more about nursing, check out The Everything New Nurse Book, 2nd Edition, available in print (978-1- 4405-2687-9) and eBook (978-1- 4405-2760-9) formats.

      Deciding Where to Work

      Even if you have a very specific idea of where you want to work and what you would like to specialize in, you will be well served to have a well-rounded background of med-surg (medical-surgical) experience to build on if possible.

      It’s Not Easy to Find a Job

      The economic downturn that began in 2000 and became a recession by 2008 adversely affected the health care industry in many ways. Job losses and dissolving 401k and other retirement funds caused many older nurses to delay retirement or to return to the field from an inactive status or retirement. Employers grabbed up these experienced nurses in lieu of hiring new grad nurses.

      Health care jobs were already becoming scarce because increasing unemployment decreased the numbers of people with health care insurance. In uncertain times, elective care is often put on hold. And even in the face of a pandemic from the H1N1 flu virus, Americans scrambled to do everything possible to stay well and avoid the high costs of health care. Consequently, there were far fewer hospitalizations from complications

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