 Hi everyone and welcome back to another vlog. My name is Claire Carmichael and I'm a newly qualified general practice nurse. I just wanted to do a little quick vlog all about the different roles of nursing because I think when people think about nursing they think about the hospital sector, they think about the wards and that sort of acute sector, the secondary care sort of places but actually there's a whole world of nursing out there that you might not have realised and it might just give you that push to come into nursing maybe if you realise how amazing it is. So I'm going to share as much as possible of the different roles and yeah hopefully you're going to be amazed. I also just want to put the disclaimer as always. So this list is literally not limited to if I was to go into every single role in nursing I would be here all day so I'm literally just going to narrow it down to a few sort of ones that I can think of and just have a look literally just research, research, research it all and speaking of research, research nurse you can be a research nurse. So yeah just have a look and see what sort of roles that you can go into. I won't talk too much about general practice nursing because I've already done vlogs about general practice nursing before just go and have a look at my channel and see if you can find those videos and yes absolutely you can come into general practice nurse as a newly qualified nurse it's just about persevering to get the job. The next role sexual health I want to talk about because I was a HCA in sexual health and not a lot of people think about sexual health and I know the umbrella clinics in Birmingham and Solihull at the minute are all recruiting for newly qualified nurses as well so please have a look into working in sexual health I loved my time in sexual health I was there for nearly six years and it was just incredible so yeah so please go and have a look at sexual health and what they sort of do and see if you can apply. Community nursing so this is what people might hear district nurses they are the people that go out into people's homes to care for those that literally can't get out of their homes and their housebound and these nurses are amazing as some of you might know I did my community placement as my management placement and it was just amazing I absolutely fell in love with district nurses and everything that they do I didn't realise how much they did they do a lot a lot a lot a lot a lot more than I ever thought so yeah so have a look at that because it is an amazing area to work and we absolutely need community nurses right now more than ever. Research nursing for example when I worked in sexual health we had our own research team and they all did sort of like studies on patients and things like that trying to work out what's the best treatment to treat things like gonorrhea or bacterial vaginosis or thrush we had a bit of research going on on that as well so it's all about finding out what is the best treatment for the patient and what's going to be the best thing to treat that patient with in the future as well so it's all evidence-based research and it's just a really really good area to go into if you're interested in research and it's a lot more different than sitting down and writing your dissertation it's about going out and actually physically doing the research so I think it's an amazing area for a nurse to go into as well and you're changing the future guidance come on I've also talked about care homes before I did a little vlog on that so go back and check out my whole care home vlog about what you could do in a care home care home nurses are absolutely amazing also not only that but you could go into learning disabilities you could go into mental health places as well out in the community and I think it's just absolutely amazing place to be I love anything community-based I am definitely a community-based type of nurse out there in the community or primary care sector that is me that is the sort of person I am it's about finding out as well what type of nurse you are and what sort of things that you really enjoy doing and go for that you could also be a hospice nurse so you could go into hospices caring for those people at the really critical time in their life sometimes it is very much end of life sometimes it is palliative care so they're not quite end of life but it's managing those symptoms that they've got of maybe a terminal illness for example such as cancers and it's about managing their pain and things like that and really really if you truly believe in holistic care I mean we all do it anyway but hospice is the one place that I thought you know what this is true holistic care because they don't just think about a symptom they're thinking about their psychological state they've got like meditation rooms they've got therapy rooms it's incredible it's a really really touching lovely place to be and people always think of hospices as oh gosh it's doom and gloom but actually it's not you are I think personally it's an honor to care for those people in their last stages of life and I imagine that role would be so so rewarding I can only think of positive things about hospices and the way that they work and the way that you care for the patient it's amazing you could be a school nurse if you don't already know we still have school nurses I know so you will be that person in school looking after all the children but I know that when I did my district nurse placement in our little block of offices where we were sort of based there was a room for the school nurses as well so they do have an office space from what I know from that but also you might just be based in the school and just sort of rock up with the school I don't know I'm assuming every place is different but school nurse would be amazing especially if you love children you're gonna love that role I think now here's one that I recently heard and I was like what so you could be a paramedic nurse I know I think to get there though you need some A&E kind of experience first from what I read however that might have changed now so don't quote me on that please look into it yourself but you can be a nurse working with the paramedics out there in ambulances and such and working I think between like the triage sort of between A&E and paramedics I think it's all that sort of stuff I'm not 100% sure I really haven't researched that much into it but I just know that role is there if you wanted to go into it it's it sounds amazing I'm not gonna lie you could also be a forensics type nurse looking for Sark so this is for people that may have been raped or abused or anything like that and they've come to you and you need to do all of the testing for DNA and things like that they're in the evidence for one of those really tough sort of situations you could be that sort of nurse I actually have a couple of friends as well who work in this area and they love it they as soon as they change roles from when we're working together in sexual health over to the Sark clinics and doing that and working alongside the police oh they love it it's they said it's one of the best jobs ever so have a look at that as well because some of you might not even know that role exists so you can do that role as a newly qualified nurse however I'm not 100% certain so you might have to just look into that whether you can do that as a newly qualified nurse or whether you need that extra experience to go into that but I don't see me in personal opinion don't shoot me down for this but I don't see the point in training for so long in one area to go into another area that you're going to have to retrain anyway because it's not somewhere you've worked before so it doesn't make sense to me but that's what they require sometimes so just do your own research as always and look into that you could also go into teaching you could be a university lecturer as some of you might know that already studying a lot of your lecturers will be a nurse already of some sort of field of nursing and they bring that experience to your lectures and they can sort of reflect back to a time that they've had patients and stuff like that and I think that's a massive massive help sometimes when you're in a lecture because they understand where you're coming from and what you've been through and I think that's amazing so that is definitely something to aim for if that's what you would like to do and also you can as I said with the Sark clinics and working alongside the police as a nurse you can go into a role where you work alongside the police they like to have a mental health team member on board with them for those people that they're going out to that might be having a sort of mental health crisis at that time they really need the experts in someone that's fully trained in that area so that's a really exciting role I think I mean it's something if I was a mental health nurse it's something I'd be thinking about doing because I first was thinking no situation is ever going to be the same everything every day is different and it'd be really nice to work alongside the police and see their sort of role and what they do and get involved with them I can't I just love all these roles sorry guys I'm going to keep talking I love all the roles I've never seen you could be a tissue viability nurse so that is someone that assesses the complex wounds you will be specially trained in wound management what the best dressings what the best technique is you will be so up to date with all of the new guidelines and everything like that to be able to help the patient when the nurse doesn't know what to do and I think that's an amazing role it's a role that I once talked about as well because I really love wounds and stuff like that so I thought maybe tissue viability would be good or to be like a wound management specialist or something like that I don't know you know my goals change every day so then I found GP so I love it yes so tissue viability nurse is definitely out there you can absolutely be a tissue viability nurse you can be a tissue viability nurse in the community as well this isn't just a ward thing like community teams need tissue viability nurses you could also go into long-term management and be one of those nurses so a diabetes specialist asthma and COPD specialist you could be a cardiovascular nurse the different areas you could be a lympho demon nurse oh my god lympho demon nurses so sorry guys I'm going to go off in a tangent now so a few of you that do watch my vlogs and have seen before even my instagram stories I've posted before where I went to the blues ground up in Birmingham and we had a whole lympho demon day which was amazing I loved it so much and to see these lympho demon nurses at work and teach us was just amazing it was so good and I was so interested in lympho demon and actually I need to get my notebook I'll just refresh my brain on it I was amazed by it and these type of nurses going out assessing patients and they take nurses out as well like band five nurses or six nurses any sort of nurse they will take out and train and so that they're doing the appropriate compression and stuff like that on patients it's just they're amazing nurses and it's something you can absolutely do going out there into the community as well they're also on the wards if you want to work on the wards they're just fantastic I can't say this word you know I'm bad for terminology people come on give me a break something to do with the eyes like an opi theology nurse or something like that you could be a nurse that specializes in the eyes basically you can be a nurse for every single part of the body and condition there is a nurse for that it's again about researching the different specialities and having a look what type of nurse that you would quite like to be I'm not an eye nurse sorry you could also go in and be an admiral nurse so an admiral nurse specializes in those with dementia they go out into the community they support the patient and they support the families to manage the dementia if they're unable to cope or if they need a bit of relief things like that they're absolutely amazing and there's not enough of them to cope so this is definitely somewhere that needs more nurses I think have a look and yeah see what you think you could be a continence nurse so someone that specializes in continence and managing continence someone that sort of assesses for different types of pads that patients might wear different types of catheters and tools and things like that they're very much sort of risk assessing as well the patient and what they need and looking at it from a holistic point of view as well not just throwing a pad at everybody is very very much okay why they're having this what's going on let's try and fix that sort of nurse from what I've gathered from working alongside these people out in the community but this is an amazing role again it's community based there's also a continence nurse on the wards as well so yeah another an amazing role you could also be a community macmillan nurse so macmillan nurses are amazing just like the people that work in hospices they are they are all cancer based sort of nurses and they will take care of patient completely holistically as well they're looking at sort of managing pain symptoms the social aspect any mental health issues that they might have there's a whole load of different things that they do and they're they're again risk assessing as well they also provide information about different funding and social things they're absolutely amazing I went out for a day with the macmillan nurse when I was on my district nursing placement and I loved it it was so nice she just went to people's houses went in and it was like so relaxed and lovely I assumed that it does get really stressful for them as well at some point but the day that I had with them it was really really lovely like we sat down it was like just talking to your family member it was it was really really nice to see so I'm going to stop waffling now because I feel like I've spoke so much in this video it's going to be like hours long if I don't stop at some point but what I will do I will find all of the links and put them below in the details so please have a look at the links so you can have a little bit more of a look into each role what it involves and how you can get into that sort of role if that's where you want to go but there's an absolute massive world of nursing out there guys it is not just hospital-based wards if you don't want to be that type of nurse you don't have to be follow your heart follow your dreams and go for what you want to do and I know there's still people out there saying you have to work on A&E so for so many years or whatever you have to work in such and such award for so many years whatever no don't listen to it fair enough there are some roles that they require some experience like I said however if you don't want to work somewhere don't work there go out there unless you really really wanted that job like if you want to be a paramedic nurse then go and work at A&E because that's what they might require then do it but never give up on your dreams and don't think that you have to be stuck in one place if that makes sense go for your dreams that's exactly what I did people telling me I couldn't be a GP nurse people were saying to me you need ward experience first no I'm a GP nurse now and I'm loving life and I'm so glad that I followed my dreams into a profession that I know I'm going to have a long career with so please follow your dreams follow your heart and just be the type of nurse that you want to be and big love to everyone