Job description
Nurses provide a variety of services to their patients. In general, they help to prevent injury and disease, promote healthy living, and care for the sick. They provide direct care for their patients through administering medications, and assisting with convalescence and rehabilitation. Nurses help people improve and maintain health by creating and managing care plans for their patients. Nurses can either choose to specialize in an area or many are general nurses that perform a variety of duties as needed for the physician. Areas of specialty include surgical, neonatal, anesthetist, gynecological, and many others. Nurses often advance to become department heads and supervisors, managing over other nurses, setting standards of patient care, and even composing the department's budget.