What Nurses Want
As busy nurses, we know what exactly we want. This will feature areas in our life that we can learn from, either as a light informational reading or as a practical guide in our daily lives and activities.
THE SHIFT
Being a nurse is already special in itself, but the nursing profession is making it the best of the professions because of the so many specializations it has,
thus making a nurse practically impossible to be unemployed. RN gives the nurse not only the license but the capacity to become one practitioner of its multiple areas of skills & competences in
related fields.
I have been a bedside, critical nurse for over thirty years and aware that I will never be always strong to carry on with the stress and physical demands of this
specialty. For several years, I have been preparing for the greatest shift that I have to do at this stage. First, I took my masters degree specializing in education. Today, after setting the Virtual
Nursing office that I have been dreaming of for eight years, I am ready to make that shift from the hospital setting to the community.
This Shifting doesn't make me less of a nurse, but rather am continuing a specialty as a community health advocate to prevent the state of critical illness that an
individual may end up with if not prevented. Whether I am in the bedside taking care of critically ill patients or in the community advocating for health, I am
still a nurse. I can relate to both areas because caring is their common factor.
I am shifting now. I hope that you too will take this long term planning because we will always be nurses in everything we do. I made my choice, what about
you?
Myrna D. Santos, MSN, RN
Nursing Careers & Specialties
A career in nursing opens up to a lot of specialties suited to your preferences, skills, lifestyles, and needs. Help yourself. Be the best of whatever you do. Be happy.
- Ambulatory Care
- Cardiac Catheterization
- Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Certified Nurse’s Aides
- Clinic Nursing
- Clinical Instructor
- Clinical Ladder Leadership
- Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Coronary Care/CCU
- Corporate Nursing
- Cosmetic/ Aesthetic Nurse
- Critical care
- Diabetes Educator
- Doctor of Nursing Practice
- Emergency/Trauma Care
- Family Practice
- Geriatric
- Healthcare Provider
- Home Care
- Hospice
- HMO/Managed Care
- Industrial Nursing
- Independent Nursing Practice
- Infection Control
- Information Technology
- Interventional Procedures
- IV Nurse/Phlebotomy
- Labor & Delivery
- Legal Nursing
- Long term care
- LVN/LPN
- Management/Administration
- Medical Mission
- Medical-Surgical
- MICU
- Midwifery
- Military Nurse
- Neurology
- NICU
- Nurse Anesthesia
- Nurse Attorney
- Nurse Coach
- Nurse Educator
- Nurse Entrepreneur
- Nurse Faculty
- Nurse Manager
- Nurse Midwifery
- Nurse Practitioner
- Nurse Scientist
- Nursing Home
- OB/GYN/L&D
- Occupational Nursing
- Office Nursing/Doctors Offices
- Oncology
- Online Nursing Instructor
- Operating Room
- Orthopedics
- PACU
- Pain Management
- Palliative Nursing
- Parish Nursing
- Pediatric/Adolescent
- Perinatal/Neonatal
- Physician’s Office
- PICU
- Post-Anesthesia Care
- Professor/Clinical Instructor
- Psychiatry/Mental Health
- Public Health/Community Nursing
- Quality Management
- Radiology
- Rehabilitation
- Research Nursing
- School Nursing
- SICU
- Stoma/Wound Care
- Travel Nursing
- Telehealth Nurse
- Telemetry
- UR/QI Case Management
- Yoga Nursing