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What does a nurse do in their everyday lives?

What do they like about it?

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Thank you comment icon What do nurses do in their everyday lives? The same things that doctors do, or lawyers, or professors or teachers or engineers or chemists or lab technicians, secretaries, Human Resources managers, real estate agents, or financial advisors. That is: each person is different, and each person will have different ways of giving back to their community or spending their free time. Have you ASKED nurses what they do when they are not at their jobs? Ask them: you will be stunned at the different things they mention. Jane S. Gabin
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Bhavna’s Answer

Nurses provide care to individuals and families who are suffering from physical and mental illnesses, injuries, or other health-related issues. This care can take multiple forms and can include administering medication, monitoring vital signs, providing emotional support, educating and informing patients, providing health screenings and physical examinations, performing clinical procedures such as injections, wound care, and laboratory tests, and maintaining medical records.

Nurses often enjoy the variety of their daily duties, the opportunity to learn and grow in their profession, and the satisfaction of helping others. They also appreciate the close relationships they develop with their patients, which can be incredibly fulfilling. Working as a nurse is often a rewarding experience both personally and professionally.
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Ann’s Answer

Austry, You have so many great answers here. There are so many different places nurses can work and they all have different routines for the different places they can work. The good thing is all the skills you learn in nursing school can take you anywhere you want to work. Different places nurses work can be:
In a Doctor's office. Different kinds of offices like family doctors who see everyone in the family, and special doctors that have extra training in a certain area of the body or for different diseases. Like Cardiologist(heart doctors), Pulmonologist (lung doctors), ear doctors,
A hospital. In the hospital, there are several different areas such as the emergency room, where people go for an emergency, or the medical/surgical floor where patients who have had surgery may go or for other illnesses. There is also the floor where babies are born. The intensive care unit is where very, very sick patients are located. Some of the nurses also help the Doctors when they are performing surgery.
There are nurses who work in prisons, or schools, and nurses who go and see patients in their homes. Some nurses work in nursing homes where people can go if they have no one at home to help them when they get older.

Nurses are needed in so many different places the point is nursing is an adventure, you can have routines or you can work where you don't know what is coming next.
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Misty’s Answer

Sometimes, people do not have family close to them or family at all for that matter so when they are in need of medical care, sometimes they are alone. As a medical professional I took it as my personal goal to see to it that they knew there was someone there to take care of them and listen to them and make sure they did not feel alone at anytime.
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Chidiebere’s Answer

Being a registered and licensed comes with wide range of responsibility that varries from day to day , ranging from supportting and caring for patients through operations and various procedures, development of treatment plans and offer advice on outpatient care. Most nurses have a fairly varied schedule throughout their day.
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Mel’s Answer

The beauty of nursing is that you get to use all your skills… writing notes, talking to doctors and professionals to manage the patient care and educating and caring for people when they are afraid or confused and need support… physically it can be demanding and there is some risk - exposure to illness or injury potential but overall when you have been able to touch a soul and know that you helped a person on their journey in life…. It is MOST rewarding but it is a dirty job too with unpleasant sounds smells and tasks…. You literally help patients with every aspect of their personal physical care!!
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Victor’s Answer

My friend is an ICU nurse and this is what his day-to-day is like based on his stories:

ICU Nurse: I get to work early or late at night (if night shift) and look up lab work and read through progress notes to get a general picture of my patients. Following this I get a report, and I assess my patients. After my assessments I prioritize what I need to do for each patient and I chart. About this time doctors start rounding so I go in with them and discuss our plan of care. I then pass routine medications. I then have to reassess my patient and chart. Here's the kicker, I have to do this stuff while patients are trying to die on me and I'm titrating drugs and intervening to keep them alive. Oh and poop. Lots of poop.
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