My future profession

What would I like to become? This question is asked to me very often. Every job has its elements of difficulties and interest. I think that nearly all the professions are very important in life. But to choose the right occupation is very difficult, because we must take into consideration many factors. We must consider our personal taste and our kind of mind. At the same time we must satisfy the requirements of our society and people’s needs in one profession or another.

There are many interesting and noble professions. I want to become a doctor. I like this profession and I am eager to get a medical education and work at a hospital.

It is a good tradition in our family. My mother is a doctor, my father is a doctor and I want to be a doctor, too. I want to be the obstetrician. Also it is very profitable work.

When I was a little girl my father worked at a hospital and I spent some time at the hospital with him. He is a surgeon and works in a surgical department.

Day by day he takes care of his hospital patients, he treats them well. He is very attentive. Every day he comes into wards asking patients, “What do you complain of?” He wants all people to be able-bodied and he tries to treat his in-patients in a proper way. To operate on persons is his main task. He is a kind and skilled surgeon.

Every day he comes into an operating room and operates on his in-patients. After each operation he takes care of his in-patients. Day by day he helps them to recover and he is glad when he can say: “My in-patient is quite recovered.”

My father tells me a lot of true stories about doctors, their profession, their aid for people. I respect my father. I like his profession and I have a dream, which I shall make a reality, to be a good doctor too.

1.	occupation	заняття
2.	to take into consideration	брати до уваги
3.	personal taste	особистий смак
4.	to satisfy the requirements	задовольняти потреби
5.	noble	благородний
6.	obstetrician	акушер
7.	surgical department	хірургічне відділення
8.	able-bodied	працездатний
9.	in-patient	стаціонарний хворий
10.	to recover	видужувати
11.	to make a reality	втілити в життя

Duties of a Nurse

Nurses help prevent disease and injury and care for the sick and injured, but within these parameters, there are no limits to what the job can entail. "Nursing offers you the opportunity to do a million different things, in а million different places," as one survey respondent put it. Nurses work in hospitals, long-term care facilities, clinics, schools, corporations, and sometimes even in businesses of their own.

While there are many different areas of specialization, some individuals are general nurses, who assist doctors by performing a variety of tasks as needs arise, and will often have secretarial duties as well if they work in HMOs or private offices.

More specialized nurses include surgical nurses, who ensure the sterility of instruments and assist doctors during surgery; obstetric-gynecological nurses, who help to deliver babies; neonatal nurses, who care for newborns and teach new mothers how to feed their babies; nurse anesthetists, who work with anesthesiologists to provide proper sedation for patients; or psychiatric nurses, who care for patients with mental or emotional disorders.

Occupational health nurses work at factories or other worksites to offer preventive education, and community or public health nurses spend time on the road to instruct various groups in their community on diverse health-related topics. Another variety of nurse is the private duty nurse, who has only one patient in his or her Charge and works in the patient's home or in the hospital. Some are also hospice nurses. These days, nurses with more advanced degrees handle many things that were once the sole province of physicians, such as treating some ailments and setting fractures. Nurse practitioners can even take diagnoses and write prescriptions. Clinical nurse specialists also have additional patient responsibilities in such areas as geriatrics or pediatrics, depending on the nurse's specialty. Nurses can advance to become department heads or Supervisors, overseeing other nurses as well as caring for patients. Each facility also has a director of nursing, who establishes standards of patient care, composes the department's budget, and advises other hospital employees on nursing issues.

Nurses generally work in eight-hour shifts day and night, although some hospitals have recently been experimenting with having nurses work 10 or 12-hour shifts on three or four days a week.

Communication skills are critical—nurses must listen well and be able to give clear directions to patients.

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to ensure the sterility newborns to take diagnoses advanced degree sedation mental or emotional disorder preventive education to set fractures to write prescriptions eight-hour shift

забезпечувати стерильність новонароджені ставити діагнози вчений ступінь заспокоєння розумовий або емоційний розлад профілактична освіта вправляти переломи виписувати рецепти восьмигодинний робочий день