In India, we have 1.7 nurses per 1000 population, which is 43% lower than the World Health Organization (WHO) standard. The count of specialized and skilled nurses is even incomparable.
The role of skilled nurses is crucial in providing quality medical treatment and meeting up with the rising demand in the healthcare sector. With many specialized hospitals coming up every year, the need of specialized nurses is also increasing.
The specialized training upgrades the knowledge and opens better career opportunities for the nurses. It also makes the nursing profession challenging and rewarding.
Why a Nurse needs specialization Course?
A nurse who is specialized in a niche is considered as an expert and a responsible nurse.
The specialization training also helps a nurse to take his/her career in the right direction and find better opportunities in the healthcare industry.
The question is: what specialization a nurse should go for? What are the options for specialization?
A nurse should choose the niche of specialization that interests him/her and have growing demand in the healthcare industry.
Here are a few specialization options that can escalate the career path of a nurse:
1 Nursing administration and management
As a nurse if one would like to pursue leadership and management role, then this course is of great help.
This course in particular prepares the nurses for critical thinking and problem-solving, which is a crucial skill for a nurse supervisor.
One also learns about team-work, conflict management, planning, organizing and coordination skills as a nurse supervisor.
Qualified nurse managers especially holding administration and management skills are mandatorily required by hospitals planning to get NABH & JCI certification inferring high demand in healthcare industry.
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- Infection control nurse
In the Covid pandemic, many hospitals struggled to find skilled nurses with a
Infection Control specialization.
Infection control nurse needs high level of knowledge in infection control indicators (SSI, CAUTI, VAP, CLBSI), their sample size, collection of data, compilation of data and trend analysis of data.
The nurses are trained for managing the infection control team, prevention and control of infection, employee and occupational health, and spill management.
NABH Accredited Healthcare facilities has huge demand for Infection control nurses.
- Neonatal Nurse
Neonatal nursing niche is high in demand and is a good career option for nurses.
Mortality rate ratio of new born in India is 28 deaths per 1000 live birth. Most of the neonatal deaths are reported from rural area, tribal areas. Because of this both Govt and private sector is looking for specialized and certified nurses in neonatal nursing.
In this specialization, nurses are trained to care for premature or sick new-born, feed them, provide thermal protection, assess and constantly monitor health of neonates.
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- Paediatric Nurse
The paediatric Nurse gives care to ailing toddlers and children.
The nurse is trained to use medical equipment, administer medicine, monitor heath and assist physicians as a team member.
This specialization needs better communication and assessment skills as the patients are toddlers and children.
The demand of Paediatric healthcare is growing at 14%-18% rate in India, hence the Paediatric nursing is a good career option.
- Trauma Nurse
Trauma nurses are the first one to attend and provide medical attention to emergency cases. In India, specialized nurses in Trauma Care Center are very few in number.
The Trauma Nursing specialization helps you build skills like planning and treating critically ill patients, assessing the injury, managing trauma cases and damage control as per guidelines.
This specialization also teaches nurses a sound thinking ability within sustained stressful conditions.
Hospitals with emergency rooms have huge demand of skilled Trauma nurses to handle incoming trauma cases.
To inquire more about any Nurse Specialization course, please connect with us on 08800893636 or leave your details on info@astron.international for a call back.