How to start and be successful in your nursing career path
A nurse plays a key role in the healthcare environment: they work in a variety of settings to focus on people’s needs any time they experience medical care, from birth to death, acting as a connection between the patient and the doctor. Before you start this path, you should ask yourself “shall I become a nurse?”. Being a nurse involves some serious and tough tasks, sometimes stressful and exhausting, such as being in contact with people with serious illnesses, overnight or very long shifts, and being in contact with blood and body fluids. Sounds scary right? So, you might wonder “why shall I choose this path”, right? Becoming a nurse also has many pros, such as saving lives, playing an important role in people’s health and medical support, having the opportunity to be highly rewarded (both personally and professionally) and specialise in many different areas of nursing (Critical Care, Surgical and Neonatal Nursing, Dialysis, Oncology, Psychiatry, and more), a variety of day-to-day work, and job security. This is a well-trusted profession, where nurses are seen as well respected and appreciated individuals.
If you are an international student who graduated outside the EU, the next step is to get registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC): we offer the best support and a wide range of courses in the whole UK, which will make your path smooth and easy, without any sort of troubles and leaving you happy. You will have to take a language test (either IELTS or OET), then the Computer Based Test (CBT – this is the theory), and then the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE – this is the practice).
To become a successful nurse, you will have to be prepared to face many challenges and difficult situations. You will have to be reliable, to avoid any hospital issues because you will be working with and handling people’s lives; professional, leaving the baggage of your life at home, to not influence co-workers or patients with negative behaviours or attitudes. Being unhappy in your field is not an excuse to keep a moody face, because you will have many opportunities to change settings; and most importantly, be empathetic and a people person, dealing with the assigned patient regardless of their condition, personality or background, who might be scared, irrational, and angry because are going through difficult medical problems. The job requires a lot of patience and compassion, with the requirement to adapt yourself. But do not worry, at IELTS Medical we will take care of all this!
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