Making a Career in Gerontological Nursing

 In last few years, gerontological nursing has emerged as one of the fastest growing career options in the United States. The number of nurses as well as students looking to make career in gerontology in the United States has also increased and expected to increase further in next coming years. Known as geriatric nursing, it is one of the nursing fields that primarily focus on providing care for the physical and psycho social needs of older adults. It is one of the few specialized nursing professions that even aim for maximizing the functional abilities, as well as promoting and restoring the mental and physical health of senior or adult people.

Once you attain a degree in gerontological nursing, you become eligible to work in hospitals, nursing homes, community health centers and senior centers where you can provide care to adult patients. In addition to this, following duties are typical responsibilities that you must take care as a geriatric nurse:

Performing older patient medical tests

Establishing a proper health care plan and health goals for older patient

Governing medications to older patient based on a prepared care plan

Going for the specialization in gerontological nursing can further boost your nursing career growth. You can select to specialize in specific types of gerontological nursing, like nursing for people with Alzheimer's disease or dementia, or home nursing for the elderly patient.

Though gerontological nursing offers few challenges but it also has its own fair set of rewards. It is one of the few nursing options that let you enjoy good salary. As per the data shown by  (Clinical Nurse Specialists) who focus on geriatrics receive a median annual salary of $70,000. Moreover, those with five or less years of experience in this field can also make $65,000 to $68,913 per year, and those with ten or more years of experience may further earn salaries above $75,000 per year.

So, now if you are currently working as a geriatric nurse or considering a make career in geriatric nursing, you will be further pleased to find out that this nursing occupation has an extremely strong job outlook. In fact, as per AACN reports, it is even estimated that by the year 2030, nearly 20 percent of Americans will be near to age 65 and over.

Looking at the other side of the coin, today older adults actually represents half of all hospital stays in the United States, and approximately two-thirds of all ambulatory adult primary care visits. Now if we take these statistics into serious concern, it clearly indicates that geriatric nursing career is surely going to expand significantly in next few decades. Adding to this, the Bureau of Labor Statistics also reports that the employment opportunities of geriatric nurse is also expected to boom to the higher percentage.

Today it is definitely one of the few nursing career options that may provide you the long-term job growth and meaningful rewards. With the increase in the ratio of older patients in the United States, there will be long-lasting demand for the medical expertise as well as dedicated geriatric nurses.



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