Nursing Careers

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NURSING CAREERS : Nursing provides invaluable services to the community through all stages of life – from midwifery to child and family care, flight nursing, mental health services, emergency and aged care. Our society cannot function without nurses.

Career FAQs Nursing tells the stories of real people working in the nursing profession right now. This book has everything you need to know about what it’s like to be a nurse, how to get qualifications and land your dream job. It includes interviews with nurses in aged care, palliative care, general hospital, cardiac rehabilitation, a university technical officer, registered county hospital nurse, sexual health nurse, community mental health clinical nurse consultant, independent midwife, practice nurse, liver transplant recipient coordinator, senior lecturer, midwifery team leader, paediatric intensive care nurse, director of support services for the leukaemia foundation, neonatal nurse practitioner and senior flying doctor flight nurse.

In today’s health system nurses are taking on ever-expanding roles and getting more recognition – and pay – for their work. The nursing shortage in Australia means that new graduates are virtually guaranteed a job wherever they want – including overseas.

Nurses specialise in areas such as disability, maternity, palliative care, oncology, cardiac, drug and alcohol services, surgery, education and much more. If you have an interest in helping people during some of life’s most defining moments – birth, injury, illness and death – there’s probably a job in nursing to suit you.