Neuroscience nurse

A Neuroscience Nurse assists patients with all sorts of brain and nervous system disorders. Some duties include monitoring neurological exams, administering medication, and consulting physicians on patient progress. Neuroscience Nurses work in diverse, challenging and rewarding environments, such as hospitals, health care clinics, brain injury units, and intensive rehabilitation units. This type of nursing focuses on helping people deal with and recover from their conditions and improving physical, behavioural and cognitive abilities.

Neuroscience nurses give immediate care and post operative care. Nurses require a high sensitivity to patients’ needs as many are unable to mentally focus or function normally. Good communication skills, interpersonal skills, stamina, patience and a detail-orientated mind are all needed to do well in neuroscience nursing. Knowledge about different medicines, hospital rules, neurological disorders and effects and be well informed about the brain and nervous systems and their roles in the body.

I chose to do the poster about neuroscience nurses because I think jobs involving helping people with their health are one of the most important jobs in the world. Neuroscience nurses are good because they help treat people with brain and nervous systems, which are pretty much the most important parts of the body. I am also interested in human biology, and neuroscience involves this. I always wanted to be a doctor, or something related to people’s health, because they are very important people and also earn lots of money, an added bonus! I think the skills required are also good for me because I think I am patient and generally never get angry, have the stamina to do a lot moving around and can start conversations and make people laugh to keep patients happy and thinking about other things rather than their condition. There is nothing I really dislike about this occupation.

The salary of a neuroscience nurse depends on the level of