| Nurse Practitioner Jobs: There are a host of jobs | | | | nurses. Taking care of young children and babies |
| available for qualified nurses. To name but a few, | | | | takes a lot of skill and the family will become very |
| nurses can work in hospitals, clinics, on airliners, cruise | | | | dependent on the person who cares for their children. |
| ships, war zones, cosmetic surgery rooms, operating | | | | With such a lot of responsibility it is to the Au-pairs |
| rooms, emergency rooms, delivering babies, stitching up | | | | advantage to have a nursing background. They are |
| wounds, giving lectures to junior staff to working for | | | | sometimes fortunate enough to end up traveling with |
| adoption agencies or health centers, in orphanages or | | | | the family or working for royalty or celebrities. |
| intensive care units. These nurses all require one thing. | | | | School nurses are important. They become essential |
| They need to be qualified. | | | | to the well-being of school children who are prone to |
| To become a qualified nurse you have to start at the | | | | falls, fights, injuries from sports and general malaise. |
| bottom of the rung of the ladder and work up to the | | | | The school nurse decides who needs to go to hospital, |
| top. It is very rank and file, starting with being a nurse | | | | back home to their mothers or just need to recover in |
| aid emptying bed pans and making up beds to a nurse | | | | the surgery for a while. They get to travel with sports |
| of higher rank who is permitted to give injections, | | | | teams to events locally and overseas and it can be a |
| change dressings and give more qualified care. The | | | | great job for those with a love of children. |
| beauty of nursing is that whatever rank you wish to | | | | With the advent of legalized abortion in countries |
| remain at, you may do so. The higher qualified you | | | | where this was prohibited before, some nurses are |
| become is entirely up to you. | | | | finding that they are on the receiving end, needing to |
| Some nurses who have gone on to become nursing | | | | perform abortions even when they feel a great |
| sisters have been very successful in opening nursing | | | | personal distaste or disapproval for them. Recently, in |
| agencies and getting people to work under them. | | | | an African country a nurse was fired for refusing to |
| These nurses need to be of a high standard as any | | | | perform an abortion. |
| nurse of a low caliber could harm the reputation of the | | | | Men or women can become nurses. Some enjoy |
| agency as well as herself. | | | | working with infants, others with handicapped, |
| Being a nurse you are almost guaranteed to be able | | | | physically or mentally challenged children or adults or |
| to find work in any country. Nurses are much sought | | | | working with the elderly. Geriatrics is quite a demanding |
| after worldwide. In some countries nurses are highly | | | | job for any nurse and requires great patience and |
| paid but in others they are poorly paid, which is | | | | dollops of kindness. Only if the nurse has these |
| shocking for the wonderful services they provide. | | | | qualities can she possibly be considered suitable for a |
| Nursing staff are appreciated in war zones where | | | | job in geriatrics. |
| they are usually well paid due to the dangers of caring | | | | Becoming a qualified nurse takes a few years. |
| for others in a conflict area. | | | | Working in a training hospital brings many benefits with |
| Care givers in some countries do not need to have a | | | | it. Camaraderie with nursing colleagues, hospital staff |
| nursing diploma; however, it is preferable that they do. | | | | accommodation and sometimes free medical care are |
| Taking care of the elderly or infirm may easily mean a | | | | some of the benefits of this laborious but very |
| sudden emergency and a professional nurse on hand | | | | rewarding job which brings much happiness for a |
| would be just what the doctor ordered! | | | | caring type of personality well suited to such a job. |
| It is also preferable for Au-pairs to be professional | | | | |