YOGYAKARTA Long careers for nurses need to be known by people who want to pursue this profession.

Nurses are professional health workers who are tasked with providing nursing care to individuals, families, and groups. Nursing services can only be provided by individuals who have passed nursing education and are recognized by the government in accordance with statutory regulations.

To improve the quality of nursing services, it is necessary to optimize the professionalism of nurses through the nursing career path.

What is meant by the nursing career path is the path of a series of job positions taken by nurses through increased competence, both obtained from formal education, relevant informal education, and recognized clinical practice experiences.

The length of nursing careers in Indonesia is regulated in the Regulation of the Minister of Health (Permenkes) of the Republic of Indonesia Number 40 of 2017 concerning the Development of Professional Career Levels for Clinical Nurses.

According to the Permenkes, the nursing careers consist of four fields, namely Clinical Nurses (PK), Manager Nurses (PM), Educators Nurses (PP), and Researcher/Research Nurses (PR). Here's the explanation:

What is meant by clinical nurses is a nurse who provides direct care to clients as individuals, family, groups, and the community.

Nurse managers are nurses in charge of managing nursing services at various levels of health service organizations, ranging from lower-level, middle-level, and upper-level managers.

In addition, nurse managers are also responsible for hospitalized patients and employed nursing staff.

At the level of the educator's nursing career, his job is to provide education to students in nursing education institutions.

Meanwhile, research/research nurses are nurses who work in nursing or health research.

The main task of research nurses is to identify research problems, apply research principles and methods, and take advantage of research results to improve the quality of nursing and nursing education.

For additional information, each nursing career path has five levels, starting from the generalist level, the principle, continued speciality, specialists, and subspecialists or consultants.

In practice, the career path of clinical nurses allows the transition of career paths to nurse managers, educator nurses, or research nurses.

According to Permenkes RI Number 40 of 2017, the career path of clinical nurses in hospitals is divided into five levels according to their competence, including:

Clinical nurse I is a clinical nursing level with the ability to carry out basic nursing with an emphasis on nursing technical skills under guidance.

Clinical nurse II is a clinical nursing level with the ability to carry out holistic care for clients independently and manage clients/settlements as a team and obtain guidance for handling further or complex problems.

Clinical Nurse III is a clinical nursing level with the ability to carry out comprehensive nursing in specific areas and develop nursing services based on scientific evidence and carry out clinical learning.

Clinical nurse IV is a clinical nursing level with the ability to carry out nursing on complex client problems in specialist areas with an interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary clinical governance approach, conducting research to develop nursing practices and develop clinical learning.

That's information about the career path of nurses. Get news updates of other options only on VOI.ID.


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