Operating Room Nurse Resumes
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
While the responsibilities of all nursing professionals revolve around the assessment and treatment of patients, the duties of operating room nurses are most critical, as invasive procedures equate to greater risks for patients. Operating Room (OR) nurses are ethically bound to provide the highest quality of care for all patients; simultaneously, they are obliged to reduce potentialities for liability impacting the institutions that employ them. As the work ethic of OR nurses must be nothing less than impeccable, their resumes must reflect and communicate these standards.
Prior to the surgical procedures, professionals within this nursing specialty consult with surgeons to determine the healthcare priorities of individual patients. Operating room nurses also ascertain the completion of all pre-surgical diagnostics in accordance with patients’ medical needs, counsel patients concerning the procedures, and assure the clinical efficacy of operating rooms. The latter task includes ensuring that the equipment, instruments, and/or materials required for each surgery are present, sterile, and compliant with relevant standards of quality. While OR nurses do not usually perform these duties directly, he or she instructs, oversees, and may also provide in-service training to clinical support staff engaged in these activities.
To assure that patients receive optimum care throughout the immediate, post-surgical stage of the treatment cycle, the OR nurse collaborates, before each surgery, with personnel in the Recovery Room and the Intensive Care Unit. It is the duty of the OR nurse to communicate to his/her colleagues the specialized equipment and/or supplies that each patient will require subsequent to surgery.
After scrubbing and entering the surgical arena, the operating room nurse provides vigilant monitoring of patients’ vital signs, remaining fully prepared to respond quickly and judiciously – in concert with other members of the surgical team – to life-threatening emergencies such as cardiac arrest, respiratory failure, and hemorrhage. In support of his or her clinical and administrative duties, operating room nursing professionals are also tasked with the review and preparation of records reflecting pertinent patient data.
In preparing effective resumes for employment and career advancement, OR nurses who prepare resumes that express their broad responsibilities and the impact of such accountabilities upon positive patient outcomes, operational efficiency, and institutional risk mitigation enhance their own potential to build rewarding, meaningful, satisfying careers.
By: Thomas Petruzzelli
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How To Become A Nurse Entrepreneur
Saturday, March 1st, 2008
Nursing is no longer just about offering services to patients, and working in hospitals and homes. Today, experienced nurses can become entrepreneurs, and be their own boss. While becoming a nurse entrepreneur can be exciting, the job also has challenges and difficulties, something that is part of all businesses.
How to Become Successful Nurse Entrepreneur:
Here are some ways to becoming a successful nurse entrepreneur.
1) Hands On Approach
You need to know and understand the needs of your patients. Apart from that, you need to combine various approaches to provide the best healthcare possible, from educational to management and training. The American Association of Diabetes Educators, for example, provides training and advice to potential nurse entrepreneurs, and helps them start a nursing business.
2) Getting Started
Make plans before you start with your business. How will you source funds for your business? How much time can you devote to it? What kind of property and equipment do you need to invest in? How about stationery with logo on it, and business cards? Every little detail needs to be taken care of before you can become a nurse entrepreneur.
3) Think Positive
Nothing works like a positive attitude. You need to be a good leader and motivate people in order to make a success of your nursing business.
4) Don’t Put All Eggs in One Basket
Since you are a newcomer to nurse entrepreneurship, you do not know how successful your business might be. If it does not work out, you should have a fall back option. Think about nursing consultancy services, speaker, education etc.
Advantages of Becoming a Nurse Entrepreneur:
1) Opportunities
The nursing profession has a problem of shortage, so anyone with experience in nursing is welcome at hospitals and healthcare sector.
2) Flexibility
Being your own boss means that you can choose you working hours to some extent. Apart from hospitals, you can also be associated with old age homes, maternity homes and similar sectors.
Nurse Entrepreneur: Issues of Concern
While becoming a nurse entrepreneur is exciting, there are certain dangers you should watch out for.
1) Business Knowledge
You may have been a good nursing professional, but that does not mean you will be a good businessperson. Business knowledge comes with experience, so you might want to team up with someone who knows how to run a business.
2) Lack of Funds
Any start up business needs funds. Shortage of funds as well as customer support can be harmful to your business.
The guidelines above are meant to give you an idea of what you need to do in order to become a nurse entrepreneur and warn you about potential pitfalls. If you want more advice before becoming a nurse entrepreneur, you can consult a small business advisor.
By: Alexander Gordon
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Sample Nurse Resume Tips
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Most of the resumes that are submitted by nurses are formatted in a fairly standard manner with just a few exceptions of personal preferences. Therefore it is important that you take a look into one or two sample nurse faculty resume so that you get a basic idea of how your resume should be written. This will help you in presenting a faculty resume for a guarantee job. There are a few basic layouts that one should observe in a sample nurse faculty resume while preparing a good quality resume.
Contact information is the first thing to observe in a sample nurse faculty resume and you should observe the full name, contact number, address and email address. This is the most important part to be included in your resume as your contact details would be clearly visible when the prospective is ready to offer you an interview. This will be followed by the objective statement which should not be longer than one or two sentences.
These lines should be written in highly professional manner and should never be written in the form of first person. They should be very clear and succinct statements that can express your goal and relate the post you are applying for.
Qualification summery is the next statement to observe in a sample nurse faculty resume. This statement can either be on the cover or can be used instead of the objective statement. This summary will provide your prospective the details of your skills related to the post your are applying.
This can be done in bulleted list or a in a paragraph form. The next and the main point to include in your nurse resume is work experience. Mention all of your work experience in a bulleted format according to the job post you are applying for.
By: Dave P Anderson
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