Trauma Nurse
Duties and Responsibilities:
Trauma nursing involves
responding quickly to a wide variety of single- and multisystem trauma involving
different patient needs, ages, cultures, and severity of presenting symptoms.
The trauma nurse must respond with decisiveness and clarity to unexpected
events by assessing, intervening, and stabilizing patients about whom there is
minimal information.
Salary: 54,082-81,996$
Education: The first step toward any nursing
specialty is to become a licensed registered nurse (RN). There a few different
paths toward becoming an RN. You can earn an associate degree in nursing (ADN)
or associate of science in nursing (ASN), which takes only two to three years.
You can also earn a nursing diploma from a hospital program in just two to
three years, although this option is becoming increasingly less common.
Ideally, your best bet is to earn a bachelor’s of science in nursing (BSN),
which will help make you much more competitive in the trauma nursing job
market. Other options are first earning a diploma or associate degree.
Reflection: I would like to become it because
it looks like a job that pays you well and you’re the one that everyone will count
on so that’ll be a little challenging and I like to be challenged.