Job description - adult nursing

As an adult nurse you will need able to carry out health assessment as this is a skill that is required from all nurses. You will need to have good interpersonal skills where you will communicate better with everyone who you provide the service to. Nurse will need to have a good knowledge of acute and chronic disease. The nurses will need to have an excellent knowledge of the primary care trust.

You may come across varies types of challenges when you are a nurse such as not being able to get along with other members of staff known as ‘ Co-worker Conflict’.  Second problem you as a nurse may come across is the 12 hour shift this is where the nurses providing the service are on their feet and having short amount of break to recover their self. Sometimes nurses come across not enough nurses per unit, lacking in the number of staff can put a lot of pressure the nurse who is on the shift. This is because there aren’t enough people to look after all the service users. Another challenge that you may come to face is injuries when you are providing care to your service user this could be abuse from elderly with dementia to people who has got pain.

As a nurse you are expected to inform your service user how to manage their chronic condition that they might have.  You will have access the patients’ health and how they are doing.  Ordering and carrying out a diagnostic test to find out what is wrong with them and giving out medication while they are in the hospital (under your care). But the medication is prescribed by the doctor at most cases.