Nursing Careers & Specialties: Nurses Options
Nursing as a career offers the most extensive fields of specialty among the professions. There are about a hundred ways of specialties and subspecialties. We will explore them all so you can be guided accordingly in your quest for the perfect specialty field of practice. With these resources, no nurse will be left unemployed. There will always be something good for everyone.
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.
Critical care
12.
Doctor of Nursing Practice
13.
Emergency/Trauma Care
14.
Family Practice
15.
Geriatric
16.
Healthcare Provider
17.
Home Care
18.
Hospice
19.
HMO/Managed Care
20.
Industrial Nursing
21.
Independent Nursing Practice
22.
Infection Control
23.
Information Technology
24.
Interventional Procedures
25.
IV Nurse/Phlebotomy
26.
Labor & Delivery
27.
Legal Nursing
28.
Long term care
29.
LVN/LPN
30.
Management/Administration
31.
Medical-Surgical
32.
MICU
33.
Midwifery
34.
Neurology
35.
NICU
36.
Nurse Anesthesia
37.
Nurse Educator
38.
Nurse Entrepreneur
39.
Nurse Faculty
40.
Nurse Manager
41.
Nurse Midwifery
42.
Nurse Practitioner
43.
Nursing Home
44.
OB/GYN/L&D
45.
Occupational Nursing
46.
Office Nursing/Doctors Offices
47.
Oncology
48.
Online Nursing Instructor
49.
Operating Room
50.
Orthopedics
51.
PACU
52.
Pain Management
53.
Palliative Nursing
54.
Parish Nursing
55.
Pediatric/Adolescent
56.
Perinatal/Neonatal
57.
Physician’s Office
58.
PICU
59.
Post-Anesthesia Care
60.
Professor/Clinical Instructor
61.
Psychiatry/Mental Health
62.
Public Health/Community Nursing
63.
Quality Management
64.
Radiology
65.
Rehabilitation
66.
Research Nursing
67.
School Nursing
68.
SICU
69.
Stoma/Wound
Care
70.
Telehealth Nurse
71.
Telemetry
72.
Travel
Nursing
73.
UR/QI Case Management
The Night Owls
Also known as the "Midnight" or "Graveyard" shift
While we do not advocate for unusual habits and lifestyles, nursing will never survive without the night nurses. For a little night differential and a lot more consequences, we admire and salute these nurses who complete the care that we give.
You are as important as any nurse. You may have felt the other way, but you are special. And in this Nursing Office, you are never forgotten! You are very much a part of the team.
Telenursing/Distance nursing: The art of caring in the 21st century
Another nursing specialty has emerged from the calls of today’s technology: telenursing, also known as distance nursing. This art of caring uses telecommunication devices in order to deliver nursing care, including the coordination of patient care and management.
In 1997 the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing published AAACN Telehealth Standards to direct nursing practice in this developing area of nursing. Since then, telenursing has been gaining momentum. Featured telenursing topics at AACN 2011 conference in San Antonio included telephone triage outcomes, legal issues in telenursing and managing outbound calling programs.
Loretta Schlacta-Fairchild, Ph.D., RN, is the founder and President of iTelehealth Inc. She sees “the practice of telenursing as the catalyst that can completely reframe our profession and take nursing into the 21st century.” Viewing telenursing as an emerging role in today’s health care world, she cites the following benefits of this new technology:
- reduces costs;
- reaches populations in rural, mostly underserved areas;
- reduces transportation time and cost for patients and providers;
- provides patients better access to care; and
- Improves productivity in the home health care field.
Combining caring and nursing with technology is the way to go this 21st century, adding telenursing as a sub-specialty practice for nurses in partnership with patients who are technically savvy. Telenursing is now utilized in telephone call centers and in treating the chronically ill at home through the use of TeleCare devices.
Reference: Phoenix/FOCUS 2011
Traditional Nursing
The foremost nursing career is the bedside nursing: dealing directly with the care of the sick in the bedside, like in a medical-surgical, obstetric, pediatric, orthopedic, oncology and many more specialty category of patients based on their conditions and diagnosis. This nursing practice is highly specialized because nurses deal with a certain or particular condition in general.
Being the “traditionalists” of nursing, they still cling on the terms and characteristics of the old nursing practice from the time of Florence Nightingale, like “ my patient…”on duty”…,”ward….” “head nurse…”and other terms, aside from wearing white starched uniforms and caps as well as non-rubberized nursing shoes. These nurses strongly believe that nursing means taking care of patients, bathing, feeding, walking them .These nurses work in hospitals, in-patient, acute or chronic care facilities. They feel pride in “taking care of patients” when they are sick, until they are well enough to take care of themselves.
These nurses are the nurses that are well-pictured in the patient’s memories, especially children, who when asked to picture a nurse will say, “a lady in white with the needle".
Nurses in a Medical Ward
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