Thursday, 21 October 2010

  By: Sian Wilson

There are vast employment opportunities within the field of nursing as a nurse can be as specialised, or as unspecialised as they choose. Nursing is known as the largest health-care occupation therefore, the opportunities afforded to nurses are excellent with continual opportunity for advanced education and training. Accompanying this is the rapid growth in technology, which creates newer and more efficient ways to implement patient care. Furthermore, the ageing population creates further pressures on public and private healthcare systems, as individuals within these older age brackets require higher levels of care than their younger counterparts do.

There are a wide variety of nursing employment opportunities within the public health sector where nurses are employed to carry out health education. This role includes educating the general public in relation to healthy lifestyles and assessment of individual’s health. Nursing employment provides individuals with the opportunity to become highly involved in one’s community, providing education around disease prevention to schools and community organisations, promoting a healthy lifestyle with a focus on preventative care. District nurses commonly provide care and treatment within the patient’s home environment, working alongside doctors, general practitioner doctors and community groups who contribute to the support and care process. Hospital nurses are employed to assess patients, treat, care and then support patients in hospitals, clinics and residential care facilities.

The range of nursing employment opportunities vary from short-term to long-term positions, as well as a wide selection of international opportunities. Nurses with the appropriate skills, education and training are in extremely high demand worldwide.
Sian Wilson is the Group Marketing Manager at Geneva Health International Ltd. With extensive media and communications experience in health recruitment, her primary role for the past eight years has been to advise the executive team within Geneva Health of marketing opportunities to attract health professionals and employers. Geneva Health New Zealand

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