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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

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.

1.  Ambulatory Care
2. Cardiac Catheterization
3. Cardiac Rehabilitation
4. Certified Nurse’s Aides
5. Clinic Nursing
6. Clinical Instructor
7. Clinical Ladder Leadership
8. Clinical Nurse Specialist
9. Coronary Care/CCU
10. Corporate Nursing
11. Cosmetic/ Aesthetic Nurse
    
12. Critical care
13. Diabetes Educator
    
14. Doctor of Nursing Practice
15. Emergency/Trauma Care
16. Family Practice
17. Geriatric
18. Healthcare Provider
19. Home Care
20. Hospice
21. HMO/Managed Care
22. Industrial Nursing
23. Independent Nursing Practice
24. Infection Control
25. Information Technology
26. Interventional Procedures
27. IV Nurse/Phlebotomy
28. Labor & Delivery
29. Legal Nursing
30. Long term care
31. LVN/LPN
32. Management/Administration
33. Medical Mission
    
34. Medical-Surgical
35. MICU
36. Midwifery
37. Military Nurse
    
38. Neurology
39. NICU
40. Nurse Anesthesia
41. Nurse Attorney
    
42. Nurse Educator
43. Nurse Entrepreneur
44. Nurse Faculty
45. Nurse Manager
46. Nurse Midwifery
47. Nurse Practitioner
48. Nurse Scientist
    
49. Nursing Home
50. OB/GYN/L&D
51. Occupational Nursing
52. Office Nursing/Doctors Offices
53. Oncology
54. Online Nursing Instructor
55. Operating Room
56. Orthopedics
57. PACU
58. Pain Management
59. Palliative Nursing
60. Parish Nursing
61. Pediatric/Adolescent
62. Perinatal/Neonatal
63. Physician’s Office
64. PICU
65. Post-Anesthesia Care
66. Professor/Clinical Instructor
67. Psychiatry/Mental Health
68. Public Health/Community Nursing
69. Quality Management
70. Radiology
71. Rehabilitation
72. Research Nursing
73. School Nursing
74. SICU
75. Stoma/Wound Care             
76. Travel Nursing                   
    
77. Telehealth Nurse
78. Telemetry
79. UR/QI Case Management
80. Yoga Nursing