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Registered Nurses
Scientific English 331
Faculty of Nursing
School of Nursing
2011 Second
Semester
Title:
Registered Nurses
Enfermera Registrada
Duties:
• Treat patients
• Educate patients and the public about various
medical conditions
• Provide advice and emotional support to
patients’ family members.
• Record patients’ medical histories and
symptoms
• Help perform diagnostic tests and analyze
results
• Operate medical machinery
• Administer treatment and medications
• Help with patient follow-up and rehabilitation
• Teach patients and their families how to
manage their illnesses or injuries
• Promote general health by educating the
public on warning signs and symptoms of
disease.
• Run general health screening or
immunization clinics, blood drives, and
public seminars on various conditions.
• Establish a care plan or contribute to an
existing plan.
• Provide direction to licensed practical
nurses and nursing aides regarding patient
care.
• Perform diagnostic and therapeutic
procedures
• May have prescriptive authority.
Registered Nurses
• Education and Training in Panama:
Nursing schools are currently
available UNACHI and the University of
Panama and her extension in the area
of Chitre.
• Earnings in Panama: earn 745 per month
and work 8 hours daily. will increase the
salaries of two years of working in the
institution. for example, two years
later would be 795 per month.
location:
hospitals in which they can work:
InPanamá:
 San Miguel Arcangel Hospital
 Complejo Arnulfo Arias Madrid Hospital
In Coclé:
 Hospital Chicho Fábrega
In Chitré:
 Hospital El Vigía
Chiriquí:
 Hospital regional Rafael hernández
 Hospital Materno Infantil José Domingo de
Obaldía
 Hospital Dionisio Arrocha
SPECIALTY: Perioperative Nurses
Enfermera preoperatoria
Duties:
Monitor vital constants before,
during and after surgery.
 Monitor
the
patient's
cardiorespiratory status.
Assess the area of the wound
prepare the patient for surgery
Earnings:
The nurses started $700.00 and
50.00 dollars for specialty.
Location:
is the operating room
Education and Training in
Panama:
In Panama no have center for training
nurses in this specialty, but
the
hospital provider a courses in this
especialty. She have a bachelor's
degree and be registered and have
years of service.
Information by Miss Ingrid Sima HJDDO
Specialty: Diabetes management nurses
•Duties: As a diabetes management nurse, you’ll deal with
patients who have Type I and Type II diabetes, both of which can
mean huge changes in what the patients eats as well as huge
changes in other parts of life. Your role could include educating
patients and their families about this disease and its risks,
monitoring blood sugar, developing nutritional plans with patients,
and more. Depending on your level of education, your employer,
and the state where you live, you could also administer or even
prescribe medications to aid with patients’ diabetes management.
•Location:In hospitals, specialized centers, health centers, health
tours, homes.
•Education and Training in Panama: In Panama no there is now
a specialty for this area. however, the nurse provides total care to
the patient suffering from diabetes. looking to meet their needs
and help in their treatment. Community nurses also guide the
population on how to prevent type 2 diabetes.
•Earnings: . As a diabetes management nurse, your salary will be
linked to a number of factors, such as level of education, location,
type of employer, certification status, and more. This is a career
area that is growing rapidly, so you can expect to see higher and
higher average salary amounts for diabetes management nurses
in the coming years. Right now, diabetes management nurses
make an average of $53,000 annually at the RN level.
Specialty: Dermatology Nurses
(Does not exist in Panama)
Duties:
Work with patients with disorders of the skin such as cancer
and psoriasis.
Also responsible for the study of the structure and function of
the skin.
As well as diseases that affect
Its prevention at the same time carries a select procedure to
control possible injuries or illnesses to this.
Location:
Hospitals and private clinics
Education and Training in Panama:
Called phone via different nurse specialists and personal
interviews were conducted on September 16, 2011, and I am told
that this specialty is not practised in Panama but in other
countries if without however concern if it exists as a specialty.
Earnings:
His salary is unknown because there is no Panama
Johan
Concepción
_Geriatric nurse
_Gastroenterology
nurse
Scientific English 331
Faculty of Nursing
School of Nursing
2011 Second Semester
Student: Aneth Delgado
ID: 4-755-1048
Title: Geriatric nurse
Equivalent: Enfermera geriátrica
Duties:
- Differentiate from a holistic perspective, normal
aging and
the disease in an older adult.
- Identify health problems and deviations according to
the model
Orem.
- Consider diagnosis and intervention.
- Classify the nursing system to use
- Know and apply basic nursing care geriatric
- Strengthening self-care practices for older adults and
their
caregivers.
- Provide support to caregivers
Perform detailed physical exam:
- Find those parameters of normality and to
identify pathologies.
- Indicate frequent health checks
- Encourage participation in organized groups
- Educate about personal cleanliness
- Encourage brushing comiday after cleaning
the denture.
- Lubricate the surface areas and massage of
the joints
- Hydrate the earlobe to prevent dryness and
itching in the area
Education and Training in Panama:
-Degree in Nursing
- Directing the work in the
room by the supervising nurse
- Requires specialty in geriatrics
Earnings in Panama: $ 800
Job outlook:
In our present and near future the population pyramid
is completely inverted Towards
the population of the elderly, caused an immediate
and urgent need to meet the demands of Health and
Welfare of the Elderly Adults.
* Our graduates have the knowledge, the most current and
Contemporary Nursing, which will allow an excellent service
provide nursing care to patients Clinical / Hospital of the
Third Age
* Provide a service based on the training, the skills and
knowledge, specialized for the care of patients of the Third
Age.
* Provide specialized in Management, Hygiene and
Nutrition in the Elderly Patients classified as hospital
patients, Desserts and / or Outpatient.
* Provide specialized care for the Elderly Patients with
chronic diseases-degenerative and / or geriatric syndromes.
* Attention to Patients Domicilaria of the Third Age.
Location:
- Center of Health
- Elder hostel
- Geriatric hospitals
Education and
Training in Panama:
-Study 4 years degree in
nursing school
-Nurse specializing in geriatric
-Have 2 years of service as a
general nurse and be registered
Earnings:
Every 3 years the salary scale increases according to
institution
Title: gynecology
Enfermera ginecologica
 DUTIES:
 ensure good information and advice
on family planning
 to diagnose pregnancies and
monitored during their normal
course, carry out the examinations
necessary to monitor the progress of
normal pregnancy
 prescribe or advise on the
examinations necessary for the
earliest possible diagnosis of
pregnancies at risk
Yahaira
Espinosa
 establish a program to prepare future parents for their
role as such, to ensure complete preparation for
childbirth including advice on hygiene and nutrition
 attend the mother during labor and to monitor the
status of the fetus in utero by the appropriate clinical
and technical means
 attend normal childbirth in the case of a vertex
presentation, and even, if necessary, episiotomy and in
urgent cases, help the party in case of breech
presentation
 detected in the mother or the child the warning signs
of abnormalities that necessitate referral to a doctor
and assisting the latter in case of intervention
 take emergency measures are necessary in the doctor's
absence, in particular the manual removal of placenta,
manual examination of the uterus followed if
necessary
Eairings:
 SPECIALIST NURSES WITH WIN 1200 Gynécologie
LOCATION
 OBALDIA JOSE HOSPITAL SUNDAY
Education and training in Panamá
 Primary certificate
 Secondary Certificate
 Nursing Degree
 Graduate emphasis in gynecology
SPECIALTY: Ambulatory Care Nurses
Enfermera Comunitaria
Duties:
•Provide Preventing Care.
•Treat patient with cronic illness.
Location:
Hilbeth
Estrada
Earnings:
The nurses started $700.00 and more
50.00 for specialty.
Job in comunity and healthcare
settings.
Education and Training in
Panama:
In panama city ambulatory care nurse
needs to have a degree, and after
registration, a master for this
specialty.
Information by Miss Zalesky Gonzales HRRH
Specialty: critical care nurses
Davis Gonzáles
Duties:
Treat patientin critical area
Administer treatment and medications
Location:
Critical care nurses can be found working in a wide variety
of environments and specialties, such as emergency
departments and the intensive care units
Education and Training in Panama:
Specialty: critical care nurses
• Education and training in panama:
• Most critical care nurses in the panama. are registered
nursesDue to the unstable nature of the patient
population are rarely utilized in a primary care role in the
intensive care unit.
• Nurses in the panama who wish to obtain certification in
critical care nursing can do so through anep
• Intensive care nurses are also required to be comfortable
with a wide variety of technology and its uses in the critical
care setting
Specialty: critical care nurses
Earnings:
panana gain 800 per mouth each work 6 hours
Maribel Gomez
Specialty: Emergency or traume nurse
Enfermera de urgencias o trauma
Duties:
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Clinical evaluation, presents and implements specific care plan.
Cordina ongoing assessment programs for staff and colleagues.
Acts as the administrative representative of the unit.
Scenes performed prehospital advanced procedures with or without medical supervision.
Lies especially in the area of trauma - shock and is an indispensable member of the team.
Integral attention and track the state hemodynamic, metabolic and neurological emergencies.
Classifies patients will lend urgent care in the hospital.
Partcipa actively in the multidisciplinary team, bringing their vision of experts.
Subjected to a triage patients in emergency and disaster situations and apply CPR.
Location: lies especially in the area of trauma and shock
Education and Training in Panama: Autonomous University of Chiriquí and
University of Panama.
Earnings: Depends on the number of years of service and increases by 50 dollars on a specialty.
Specialty: Transport nurse
Duties: some emergency nurses may become qualified to
serve as transport nurses, who provide medical care to
patients who are transported by
helicopter or airplane to the
nearrest medical facility.
Location:University of IllinoisChicago, Madrid España, england.
Education and Training in Panama:
In Panama does not exist this specialty and the cost of this race
is high
Earnings: references according to ignore the salary of that
specialty.
Specialty: Holistic nurses
Gidaltis Gonzáles
TERAPIA COMPLEMENTARIA
Duties: Provide care such as acupuncture, massage and aroma
therapy, and biofeedback, which are meant to treat patients’ mental
and spiritual health in addition to their physical health.
Location:
Chile, México
Education and Training in Panama:
No such nurses are there in Panama because race that specialists
in this area (interview with nursing faculty)
Earnings:
salary is unknown
Specialty: Home health care nurses
Enfermera de cuidados en casa
Duties:
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Basic care assistance: bathing in bed, grooming, feeding,
administration of drugs.
Endovenous Treatment Placement, subject to medical
prescription, preparation for studies (placement of
enemas).
Training for patient care, bed mobilization, control of
liquids, take blood pressure, direct assistance to the user.
Home peritoneal dialysis with highly qualified staff
(Specialists)
Wound healing
Location:
Home care for each patient
Education and Training in Panama:
In Panama, there are not home care nurses, according to the
teacher and intensive care nurse Ingrid Sima, but they exist in
the United States and Venezuela. The requirement is degree in
nursing and a specialization.
Earnings:
Salary of thirty five dollars for hour, eight thousand four
hundred dollars a month.
SPECIALTY: Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses.
Enfermera en cuidado paliativos o terminales.
Yaira
Guttierrez
Duties:
•Focused on maintaining quality
of life for terminally ill patients.
Earnings:
The nurses started $700.00 and
more 50.00 for specialty.
• Administer medications for pean
Location:
Job in oncology hospital
Home patients.
Education and
Training in Panama:
In Panama not have center for
training nurses in this specialty.
Information by Miss Yolanda Ortega. Jefa de Policlínica de Bugaba
Specialty:Long-term care nurse
In Panama, there
Duties:provude healthcare servince on a recurring basis lo
patientes with chonic physical or mental disorders.
Location: in hospital and private clinics, in ohter countries.
Education and Training in Panama: Panama does not have
this speciality.
Earnings: He met the dean of the faculty and reported that
Panama does not have this speciality.
Title: Medical Surgical Nurses
Enfermera medico quirúrgica
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Sthepanie
miranda
Duties:
Educating patients on surgical procedures.
Managing pain.
Discharge planning.
Working closely with other healthcare
professionals.
• Maintaining a patient’s physical and
psychosocial health.
Location:
Can work in Hospital Rafael Hernandez, Acute Care Units.
Education and Training in Panama:
The specialty of medical-surgical nurse can be studied
in the Universidad Autónoma de Chiriquí which lasts one
and a half.
Earnings:
Medical surgical nurse receives an average salary of
1200 dollars depending on the degree Blanca Quintero
Title: Occupational health nurses
Enfermera de salud ocupacional
Duties:
 Participate in the development of labor history.
 Carry programming, reporting and archiving of
preventive medical examinations
 Participate in the epidemiological monitoring of workers
with occupational diseases or work-related.
 Participate in the process of hazard identification,
evaluation and control of occupational hazards with
administrations.
 Actively participate in the enforcement of the measures
set out in the inspection and proper use of the means of
protection
 Give employees a health education according to
workplace and occupational risks it is exposed
 Conduct surveillance and analysis of sanitary conditions
and epidemiological job and company
 Develop promotional, preventive health and safety of
workers, and rehabilitation of sick or injured workers,
through individual actions aimed at the general worker or
the collective work directed.
 Develop and implement programs designed to combat
risk behaviors and health habits in the workplace.
Education and training in Panamá
 In 1998 approving the graduate occupational health at
the Universidad de Panamá. The duration is 2 (two)
semesters or 1 (one) year with theory and practice and
are awarded 25 credits. Entry requirements are:
 Possess degree in Nursing Science.
 Have a academic index of 1.50 during their
undergraduate studies
Earnings:
 Have a salary of approximately 700 to 800 dollars.
Location:
 private companies
 Hospitals
 Clinics
 schools
Specialty: Perianesthesia nurse ,spanish
equivalent: enfermera anestesióloga
Eunides
Montoto
Duties:provide preoperative and postoperative care to patients
undergoing anesthesia during surgery or procedure.
Location: According to the nurse anesthetist, intensivist Zapata mayra
currently working at the regional hospital prepare this race the same St.
Thomas Hospital she took a specialty and then discontinued this
preparation, at present the anesthesiologist is the one who placed the
nurse anesthesia and no
Education and Training in Panama: there is this race in Panama according to
hospital clinical professors and Mayra Zapata Ingrid Sima
Earnings in Panama: dollars biweekly 1080 According to the professor
many years ago this was the salary she was a nurse anesthetist has
Mayra Zapata.
• Perianesthesia nurse
• Imagen include,
• Eunides Montoto
• 4-739-2244
• Job outlook:
• currently there is no such race in Panama, according to
the versions of the teachers of clinical practice and
Mayra Zapata Ingrid Sima in the Chiriqui province there
are only 5 and only nurse anesthetists are responsible
for preoperative and postoperative care of anesthesia in
the patients undergoing surgery
Yussara Nájera
Specialty: Psychiatric- mental health nurse
Enfermera psiquiátrica o de
salud mental.
Duties:
• Treat patients with personality and mood disorders.
• Train the technical team.
• Teach about mental health to patient’ s family members.
Location:
In the Regional Hospital- Chiriquí and “Instituto Nacional de
Salud Mental de Panamá”.
Education and Training in Panama:
Postgraduate studies in mental health: The duration is 2
semesters or 1 year with theory and practice and are
awarded 25 credits. The admission requirements are:
• Possess bachelor's degree in Nursing Science.
• Have a academic index of 1.50 during their undergraduate
training.
Earnings:
Salary of 800-1000 dollars
for month.
Specialty: Radiology nurses
Irma
Rodriguez
Enfermera Radióloga
Duties: - Assess the needs of patients.
- Apply the physical and psychological care before, during and after the process.
- Preparation of sterile field.
- Perform nursing techniques.
- Apply treatments.
- To assist the radiologist during the procedure.
- Complement the Registry of Nursing to be attached to Sr. Clinical care and nursing activities
performed, treatments and recommendations for the hours after the intervention.
- Check medication, truck stop, injection pumps ...
- Manage the material to be in contact with the patient (catheter guides etc. ..)
Location: Go to the radiology department patients from medical units, Surgical, Emergency, ICU
and outpatient, with all sorts of diseases.
Education and Training in Panama: In Panama there is no school to specialize
in radiology led to nurses.
Earnings: In Panama there is no such specialists, researchers and foreign wages of nurses
radiologists is:
$ 59.000 Radiology Nurse, Interventional Radiology California $ 80,000 $ 93,000 Interventional
Radiology Texa.
Specialty: Rehabilitation nurse
DUTIES:
The rehabilitation nurse who specializes in assisting people
with disabilities and chronic illness to attain optimal function
and optimal health, and adapt to a different lifestyle.
Registered nurses Rehabilitation to help patients become
more independent setting goals and realistic treatment
plans. They are part of a multidisciplinary team and often
coordinate patient care and team activities.
LOCATION:
Hospitals.
• Centers of inpatient rehabilitation.
• Centers of outpatient rehabilitation.
• Centers of long-term care.
• Home health services and community.
• Insurance companies.
• private clinics.
• Schools.
• occupational health centers.
• Education and training in panamá:
The specialty of nursing in rehabilitation is dictated at the
University of the Americas in Panama.
• Earnings: the salary is around nine dollars.
Alcibiades Saldaña
Title:
transplant nurses
Enfermera de atención para el
trasplante
Duties:
• Care for both transplant recipients.
• living donors.
• monitor signs of organ rejection.
Transplat nurses
• Education and Training in Panama: In Panama,
there is spatiality as such, nurses receive special
training in their care to have this type of patient.
• Earnings in Panama: wages in this case depends
on the years of experience of the nurse, as they
increase every two years fifty dollars in addition to his
base salary of eight hundred dollars.
• Job
outlook:
the
jobs
are
in
the metropolitan area hospitals as el Complejo
Hospitalario de C.C.S and hospital Santo Tomas.
referred by the teacher, a nurse at hospital Jose
Domingo De Obaldia Mirta Montenegro
Title:
Intellectual Developmental disabilities nurses
Enfermera de discapacidad intelectual y del desarrollo
zuleika sevillano
Nurses surveyed: Liana Del Cid, Yolanda Ortega,
Mayra Zapata, Xenia Miranda.
According to information provided by different
nurses specialization that I belonged there in
panama
Duties:
• Providing care for patients with physical, mental or
behavioral disabilities.
• Caring for patients of all ages.
• Assisting with feeding and controlling bodily functions.
• Supporting patients and encouraging them to
be independently mobile.
• Educating patients and their families of
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
• Assisting patients with language skills and
other forms of communication.
• Location:
Nurses work in many different settings including
Hospitals, Schools, Worksites, and Primary
Care Centres in the community.
Intellectual Developmental disabilities nurses
• Education and Training in Estados Unidos:
Registered Nurses can gain Certification in
Developmental Disabilities Nursing (CDDN). To
certify you must provide documentation for 4,000
hours (2 years full-time) work in a developmental
disabilities nursing practice. These hours must
have been completed within the last five years.
You must then sit a written examination.
Certification lasts for two years at which stage
you can recertify by taking the examination
again.
CDDN certification is accredited by the
Developmental Disabilities Nurses Association
(DDNA).
• Earnings in Estados Unidos:
The salary depends on your location work. but
usually earn 35 dollars per hour.
• Job outlook:
It is expected that overall job opportunities for
nurses to be excellent, but may vary depending
on the work environment and geographical
setting.
• Some employers report difficulty in attracting
and retaining adequate numbers of registered
nurses. It is expected that employment of
registered nurses to grow much faster than
average and, because of the extent of the
occupation, will result in 581.500 new jobs, one
of the largest numbers of new jobs for any
occupation. In addition, hundreds of thousands
of jobs will result from the need to replace
experienced nurses who leave the occupation.
Picture of the intellectual developmental disabilities
nurses
Specialty: HIV- AIDS nurses
DUTIES:
The nurse, as an entity health care provider, make a
personal act, ethical, creative and supportive people in
the health-disease process, especially in patients with
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), their
families and society in general, requires adequate care
LOCATION:
Home Health Agencies
General medical and surgical hospitals.
Mental Health Institutes
Nursing Home
Doctors Offices
Private Homes
Education and Training in
Panama:
The education training
provided to nurses to treat
patients with HIV-AIDS
through the HIV Nursing
Network of the Americas that emerged initially
REDEVIHDA November 2006.
Earnings:
Approximate salary of a nurse
specialist in care of patients
with HIV AIDS is more or less:
$ 49.504 per year.
YARIELKA ZAPATA 4-751-1383.
SPECIALTY: Oncology Nurses
Enfermera Oncóloga
Duties:
Provide care at patients with cancer
Provider care in administration of
radiation and chimioterapics.
Monitor vitals constants
monitor access intravenous for phlebitis
or vein extravasation,
watch for adverse drug reactions.
Location:
Hospital Oncologico of Panama and other
room, that has patients with everithings
types of cancer.
Education and Training in Panama:
 In Panama city no specialization in
oncology centers, but is aimed at
nurses working in these areas of the
hospital, like the other nurses must
have their degree, be registered and
have a few years of service.
Earnings:
Nurses in gaining this position started
700.00 dollars and increases according to
years of service.
Information by Miss Ingrid Sima HJDDO
Edwin
Specialty: Wound, ostomy, and continenceCenteno
nurses.
•Duties: They care for patients with ulcers, arterial disease, and
wounds caused by traumatic injury. They also provide
postoperative care to patients that have ostomies, which are
openings that allow alternative ways to eliminate bodily wastes
and treat patients that suffer from incontinence. Some wound,
ostomy, and continence nurses specialize in a specific area and
others practice in all three areas.
Location: In hospitals, specialized centers, health centers, health
tours, homes.
Education and Training in Panama: In Panama no we have a
nurse specialist in wound, ostomy and continence. in our
hospitals these procedures are performed by the internist. But the
nurse has the knowledge and ability to perform the necessary
care for these patients.
Earnings: The average annual salary for wound, ostomy, and
continence nurse is $58,000; average annual wound, ostomy, and
continence nurse salaries vary greatly with location, industry,
employer, education, experience, and benefits
Specialty: Cardiovascular nurses
(Nursing in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery)
Duties:
Treats patients with coronary heart disease.
Those Who have had heart sugery providing services such as
postoperative rehabilitation.
Dedicated to prophylaxis, diagnosis and treatment of vascular arterial,
venous pathologies and affecting the heart.
Deals with the treatment of all the problems of all the vessels of the
body mainly those relating to the heart.
Location:
Hospitals and private clinics
Education and Training in Panama:
Have more than three years after receiving his degree of nurse a
recognized institution in the country, Diploma to prove that for a minimum
of one year acquired specialized preparation, through a course of cardiac
nursing, a prestigious institution, exercising the specialty of cardiac
nursing.
Earnings:
His salary is 800 dollars
Yahaira Espinosa
Title: oncology pediatric
enfermera de pediatria oncologica
Duties:
Relieve pain and other symptoms
Improve emotional, mental and spiritual
Providing support to family members who have
cancer during illness and after the death of the person.
 Reduce the suffering of the patient and his family.
 Improve quality of life of patients and family.
 Promoting patient autonomy
Eairings:
• about pediatric oncologist nurse earns 1500 dollars
Location
• Child Hospital in panama
Education and trainig in Panamá
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Primary certificate
Secondary Certificate
Nursing Degree
Graduate emphasis in oncology pediatrics
Title: Gastroenterology nurse
Equivalent:Enfermera Asistente en gastroenterología
Duties:
• You must explain to the relatives and patients
themselves according to their age the importance
of physical rest and constantly check their
compliance.
• Perform concurrent disinfection with soap and
water and finish with a chemical health services.
• Make a thorough hand washing after handling
feces and urine of patients.
• Explain the medical and paramedical personnel
practicable measures to reduce nosocomial
infections.
• Subjecting the material to hypochlorite solution
before being sent to the sterilization department.
- Assess the production of saliva, gastric acid,
digestive enzymes and intestinal mucus.
- Monitoring the reduction of intestinal motility,
esophageal peristalsis and feeding tolerance due to
reduced bacterial flora
Rate-elimination pattern for constipation or
diarrhea.
- Identify symptoms of esophagitis or
gastroesophageal reflux, esophageal dilation
product.
- Palpate liver size and value the ability to
metabolize certain drugs
- Observe signs of malnutrition
- Find out about food preferences and tastes.
Education and Training in Panama:
- Degree in Nursing
- Directing the work in the room by the supervising
nurse gastroenterology
- No specialized requires
Earnings in Panama: $ 750
Job outlook:
* Our graduates have the knowledge of nursing most
current and contemporary, which will allow you to
provide an excellent service Nursing Care of Patients
with gastroenterological problems.
* Domain and Knowledge Management techniques
and Welfare of patients with disorders of
gastroenterology.
* Sense of responsibility, professionalism and
collaboration with the medical team in carrying out
their duties with the patient.
* Development of Research Capabilities and Update
in Knowledge of her Profession, with the latest
Advanced Learning Technology.
Location:
-Hall of gastroenterology and
endoscopy in the hospital
Education and Training in Panama:
-Study 4 years degree in
nursing school
Earnings:
-Every 3 years the salary scale increases
according to institution
SPECIALTY: Nephrology Nurses
Enfermera Nefróloga
Duties:
Earnings:
•Provide care at patients with kidney diseases
•provide care during the dialysis
•providing catheter care Mahurkar
Nurses in gaining this position started 700.00
dollars and increases according to years of
service.
Location:
workplace is in the dialysis room within the
hospital.
Education and Training in
Panama:
In Panama city has no center or university to
teach specialized nurses in this specialty, these
nurses are offered a course in this area, the
requirements are a bachelor's degree and be
registered with at least 5 years of service.
Information by Miss Zalesky Gonzales HRRH
Specialty: Neuroscience nurses
Enfermera de Neurociencia
• Duties: -Care management.
-Run the actions derived from diagnosis and treatment.
-Duty to ensure the best resources management patient assistance
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Providing nursing care to patients or primary caregivers who present neurological diseases.
Increase knowledge of nurses who provide care at other levels on request: Primary Care, ESAD,
home care.
Inform about available resources: Associations, Foundations, Specialized Centers.
Using computer tools to streamline and manage the user's history, also to improve communication
among professionals who treat these patients.
• Location: is dedicated to providing comprehensive diagnostic services, treatment and
control for a wide range of problems cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine, all in the comfort of one
location, hospital specialists in neurology.
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Education and Training in Panama: In Panama there is an education
center for neuroscience nurses
• Earnings: in Panama there is no specific budget for this specialty because there is no
training school for nurses to this specialty therefore there is no nurse to exercise that office in
Panama
.
Specialty: Oftalmology nurse
Enfermera oftalmóloga
• Duties: The nurse comes in contact with people of any age with various diseases and can
contribute, and in fact it has done, to bring about many activities that promote good vision and
avoid injury or worsening. It must therefore promote the nurse visual acuity and measures to
provide security and detect eye diseases in bedridden or in the rest of the population through
periodic or informative talks at the hospital
.
• Location: were interviewed hospital nurses Jose Domingo de Obaldia which panama
responded that this specialty still not within the scope of activities of the nurse as there is no
.
• Education and Training in Panama: In Panama there is no school for the
country in any school for this specialty
specialty of ophthalmology for nurses.
• Earnings: in Panama there is no specific budget for this specialty because there is no
training school for nurses to this specialty therefore there is no nurse to exercise that office in
Panama
.
Specialty: Otorhinolaryngology nurses
Duties: otorhinolaryngology nurses care for patients with ear
nose and throat disorders, such as cleft palates, allergies and
sinus disorders.
Location: the specialization
Otorhinolaryngology nurses takes
place in Argentina, United states and
Madrid with a duration of four years.
Education and Training in Panama: in Panama are more
basic to the nurse, this sector is left to specialized doctor in
otorhinolaryngology
Earnings: the minimum wage in this specialty is among about six
hundred twenty dollars.
Specialty: Respiratory nurses
TERAPISTA RESPIRATORIO
Duties: Provide care to patients with respiratory disorders such as
asthma, tuberculosis, and cystic fibrosis.
Location:
Hospital Panamá y Chiriquí
Education and Training in Panama:
No such nurses are there in panama because race that specialists in
this area (interview with nursing faculty)
The specialty is in respiratory therapy UDELAS, University of
Panana
Earnings:
The respiratory therapist salary is Panama B/500.50
Specialty: Urology nurse
Enfermera especialista en urología
According to the teacher and intensive care nurse Ingrid Sima, In
Panama, there are not Urology nurse, but specialist nurses are in
hemodialysis.
Duties:
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Place patient in comfortable position
Connect the patient with aseptic technique
Valuing status of gauze, insertion site, presence of exudate.
Healing with the use of masks, gloves and sterile fields.
Use of local antiseptic: Alcohol or chlorhexidine
Make healing in each hemodialysis session.
Install the machine for hemodialysis
Location:
In any hospital with a specialized room for hemodialysis, for
example in the Hospital Regional Rafael Hernandez, Hospital Jose
Domingo de Obaldia, Hospital Chiriqui.
Education and Training in Panama:
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Hemodialysis postgraduate
Earnings:
In the public hospital the salary is forty-seven dollars for shift, in a
private hospital and his salary is eighty-seven to one hundred
twenty dollars
SPECIALTY: Clinical nurses specialists
Enfermera Clínica
Duties:
Earnings:
•Provide direct care at patients
•Provide concultations
The nurses started $700.00 and
more 50.00 for specialty.
Location:
Healthcare Settings
Consultations extern in hospital.
Education and
Training in Panama:
In Panama not have center for
training nurses in this specialty.
There are basic nurses.
Information by Miss Yolanda Ortega. Jefa de Policlínica de Bugaba
Specialty: Nurse anesthetists
Duties:
 Provide anesthesia and related care
before and after surgical, therapeutic,
diagnostic and obstetrical procedures.
They also provide pain management
and emergency services such as airway management.
They are responsible for observing the patient's
condition after surgery.
Administer pain medication and evaluate motor and
sensory functions.
Write the patient's progress in the clinical record as a
legal document.
Location: The nurse anesthetist can work in the
operating room for public and private hospitals.
They are the right hand of the anesthesiologist, who
needs a competent assistant, you do not make the
slightest mistake and knows at all times fulfill the tasks
assigned to it.
Education and Training in Panama: a nurse
anesthetist need a degree equivalent to four
years , a licensed registered nurse who is two years
of work experience, a minimum of one year experience
in an emergency room or intensive care unit and study
a specialization of nurse anesthetist and pass exams to
become certified.
Earnings:
Nurse anesthetists earn 1200 per month and work
6
hours
daily.
Is
one
of
the
more
paid nursing specialties.
Specialty: Nurses-Midwives
Enfermera Obstetrica
Duties:Provide primary care to women, Gynecological
exams, Family planning advice, Prenatal care, Assistance
in labor and delivery, Neonatal care.
Location: Delivery room, Health Center.
Education and Training in Panama:
Degree in Nursing, Graduate in Ostetrics.
Earnings: B/. 755.00, Speciality B/. 50.00
Title: Forensics nurses
Enfermera forense
Duties:
 Respond to the request of the department
police for forensic medical examination.
 Make a record with the purpose of diagnosis
and treatment
 Do a complete physical examination of the victim
 Collection of forensic evidence along
of the testing process. (collection
of evidence).
 It addresses the medical needs and provides
referrals for follow up.
 Maintains custody of the evidence collected.
 Provides expert witness testimony
in court when necessary.
Education and training en Panamá:
 It does not exist in Panama this specialty, but in
countries like Costa Rica and united states has a
duration of one year to acquire this specialty requires a
bachelor's degree in nursing and must be registered.
There are forensic nurses currently employed in the
United States 7500.
Earnings:
 Forensic nurse salary varies from place to place. In
some places, forensic nurses are paid $ 26 per hour at
one hundred dollars per hour.
Location:
 Prison
 Clinics
 Hospitals
 Courts
Specialty: Infection control nurse ,spanish equivalent:
Enfermera Epidemióloga
Duties:Identify ,track ,and control infections outbreaks in
health care facilities and develop programs for outbreak
prevention and response to biolocal terrorism.
Location: hospitals are in the Rafael Hernandez and Jose Domingo
de Obaldia, each hospital has a nurse epidemiologist for recording all
new outbreaks of epidemics, viruses and bacteria, and nationally make
rounds in health centers when there are new outbreaks of disease.
Education and Training in Panama: specialty is currently at the
University of Panama as the medical epidemiologist in charge of
epidemiology Pablo Acosta Chiriqui.
Earnings in Panama: According to the doctor a nurse
epidemiologist epidemiologist Pablo Acosta wins 2035 dollars every
two weeks
• Specialty: Infection control nurse
• include imagen:
• Eunides montoto
• 4-739-2244
• Job outlook:
• now is a good specialty in the workplace because there
are not many nurse epidemiologist in the hospital
according to epidemiologist Dr. Pablo Acosta Chiriqui
knows only 3 nurses to this specialty
Specialty: Infusion Nurses
Enfermeras de Infusión
Duties:
Infusion nurses provide care to patients
by administering medications, fluids, nutrition,
and blood products to patients by injecting needles
into veins or maintaining arterial catheters.
monitors the patient does not give an allergic reaction
 to medication
They are responsible for the patient receiving
the dose, schedule and right medicine.
These nurses are also responsible for monitoring
patients, maintaining their tubing and bandages, and
recognizing potential drug interactions and complications.
Specialty: neonatology nurse
Duties:
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Perform immediate care of the newborn in the delivery room.
Perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation in case of a newborn with asphyxia
or meconium aspiration bronco.
Perform physical examination of newborns and record results in medical
history.
Meet the immunization program.
Properly administer blood products.
Perform additional tests and record results in medical history.
• Evaluate changes in the newborn and inform your doctor.
• Act properly in transporting critically ill neonate.
• Assess the psychosocial needs of the family.
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Starting
balance
income
and
expenditure.
• Collect blood and urine sample for laboratory analysis.
• Assess cardiovascular status, auscultation and evaluation
of heart sounds, rate, rhythm, and peripheral pulses.
• Assess neurologic function, alertness, coordinated
movements and reflexes.
Location: in the room of neonatology
Education and Training in Panama:
the course of this specialist taught in the University of Panama and
lasts about a year
Earnings:the salary is between one thousand to twelve hundred
dollars.
Specialty: Nurse informaticists
Enfermera de estadísticas
Duties:
•Manage and communicate nursing data and information.
•Improve decision making by consumers, patients, nurses
and other healthcare providers.
Location:
In Panama, the nurse supervisors have this role.
In the offices of supervision of nursing in the hospital or
MINSA.
Education and training in Panama:
Master's degrees of administration: The duration is 3
academic semesters or 1 year with 6 months and are
awarded 36 credits. The entry requirements are equal to
those of the post degree and must maintain an index of
1.75.
Earning:
Salary 1000 dollars onwards
for month.
Title: Nurse Practitioners
Enfermera profesional
• Duties:
• Conducting physical exams
• diagnosing and treating common
illnesses and injuries
• providing immunizations
• interpreting X-rays and other lab tests;
and counseling patients on healthy
lifestyles.
Location:
Can work in Hospital Rafael Hernandez.
Education and Training in Panama:
this specialty does not exist in Panama, but this role nurses
receive training through hospitals
Earnings:
The salary of these nurses in the hospital is around
900 dollars according to the degree Blanca Quintero
Education and Training in Panama:
Earnings: