Types of Nurses
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Addiction NursingTwenty-first century addiction looms larger than illegal substance or alcohol abuse. Some addictions are so sublime that they are difficult to detect: examples include the food-addicted person hiding her binging and purging, the gambler borrowing funds to pay bills, the smoker who “isn’t hurting anybody,” to those addicted to sex, the Internet and consumerism. [read more] |
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Agency NursingAgency nursing is when nurses sign up to join an agency that, in turn, provides people with nurses and other healthcare assistants (such as certified nursing assistants). [read more] |
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Ambulatory Care NursingAmbulatory care nursing is a specialty within the industry that is characterized by the rapid-paced, focused assessments of patients; translating and teaching about the prescriptions so they become doable activities for caregivers and patients; and maintaining long-term relationships with nurses, patients and families. [read more] |
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Anesthesia NursingA nurse in anesthesia nursing is simply defined as one specializing in administering anesthesia. A Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) in the United States is a nurse who is at the advanced practice level and who has earned board certification and obtained education at a graduate level. [read more] |
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Cardiac Care NursingCardiac Care nurses are one of the most important parts of a health care community as a whole. These nurses are known as a cardiac care nurses, as well as a cardiovascular nurses. They are registered nurses that have a specialty in nursing care, health education, and treatment in those patients who are suffering from conditions or diseases of the heart. [read more] |
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Cardiac Catheterization Lab NursingA cardiac catheterization lab nurse is commonly referred to as a cath lab nurse. These nurses are registered nurses who work in the specialization of heart disease and diagnosis for their nursing career. [read more] |
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Case Management NursingNurses in the field of case management are responsible for providing care to patients who receive long-term therapy and in all treatment aspects, provide for the optimal level of time management. Case management nurses also usually specialize in one area such as children, geriatrics or AIDS and work with people of all ages and conditions. [read more] |
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Certified Registered Anesthetist NursingA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) is a licensed nurse similar to an anesthesiologist who offers anesthesia services. [read more] |
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Clinical Research NursingNurses are primarily responsible for the diagnosis and treatment of diverse populations; however, there are different nursing career paths beyond these traditional functions. [read more] |
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Correctional NursingCorrectional nursing is one area of nursing that is not an easy job. Not only do the nurses have to deal with dangerous prisoners each and every day, but they have to ensure that they are quick on their feet and quick with decisions. [read more] |
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Critical Care NursingNurses who work in the critical care subfield of the industry are responsible for dealing with patients who are experiencing life-threatening problems. [read more] |
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Emergency NursingNurses in the field of emergency nursing are responsible for providing care to patients during the critical, or emergency, phase of a trauma or illness. [read more] |
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Flight/Transport NursingFlight transport nursing is the specialty within the nursing industry where registered nurses (RNs) provide nursing care to every type of patient while in flight. [read more] |
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Forensics NursingForensic nurses work with officials in law enforcement as well as victims of crimes and perpetrators. This profession is one of the fastest growing specialties within the field of nursing. [read more] |
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Gastroenterology NursingGastroenterology nurses are also referred to as endoscopy nurses. These nurses work with physicians in an effort to treat and diagnose patients with conditions that affect the gastrointestinal tract and the digestive system. [read more] |
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Geriatric NursingGeriatric nursing is known as a specialty among nursing occupations that focuses on the offering of healthcare services to geriatric or aged individuals, as students in nursing programs will learn. [read more] |
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HIV/AIDS NursingThe field of HIV/AIDS nursing is meant to assist those people who have been infected by HIV or AIDS; this assistance extends even to those people who have merely been affected by HIV or AIDS, as students in nursing programs will learn. [read more] |
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Holistic NursingIn holistic nursing, the nurse has to provide healthcare to a person in all facets, which include the body, mind, emotions, relationships, and environment. A holistic nursing career involves clinical practice to fulfill physiological, psychological, and spiritual healing to the patient. [read more] |
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Home Healthcare NursingHome heathcare nursing is when nurses choose to work private duty or in uncontrolled environments, not hospitals or clinical settings. Home health nurses work with patients on all economic and social levels providing care that is one-to-one but there is often continual family interaction. [read more] |
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Hospice and Palliative Care NursingHospice and palliative care nurses give respite to the incurably ill. They concentrate not on cure, but on symptom control and quality of life care to help those with an incurable illness facing end-of-life issues to spend their remaining days as comfortably as possible, usually in their own homes. [read more] |
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Infection Control NursingInfection control is a discipline within healthcare that is focused on preventing either healthcare-associated or nosocomial infection. [read more] |
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Informatics NursingInformatics nursing combines information technology and nursing science in an effort to process patient-related data and assist in making important medical decisions. [read more] |
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Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities NursingIntellectual and developmental nursing is also called special needs nursing, and it is a specialty that concerns itself with providing healthcare to patients who have to endure a number of intellectual or developmental disabilities. [read more] |
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Intravenous Therapy NursingIntravenous therapy nurses are also known as infusion nurses. They are high in demand in the nursing field because of their particular job function. They are responsible for administering IV’s to patients that need intravenous therapy of some sort. [read more] |
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Legal NursingLegal nurse consultants review medical records and assist attorneys in the determination of whether any type of professional negligence has occurred in particular cases they are working on. [read more] |
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Long-Term Care NursingLong-term care nurses work with seniors, people who require long-term medical treatment and physically disabled patients who are unable to perform everyday functions. Generally, seniors have to depend on their children to do their daily work. [read more] |
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Medical AssistantA career in the medical field will be one that is always in high demand. It is often said that there is a shortage of nurses rather than there being a shortage on nurse jobs. [read more] |
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Medical Surgical NursingMedical surgical nurses work in various specialty positions and environments like in outpatient clinics, inpatient surgical centers, HMOs, emergency departments, hospital administration, home healthcare, ambulatory surgical care, humanitarian relief work, and skilled nursing homes. [read more] |
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Military NursingMilitary nursing is a profession which offers registered nurses a host of appealing opportunities. Nurses in the military have the opportunity to work in a variety of environments. Traveling to other countries and areas is possible when working for the military. [read more] |
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Neonatal NursingNeonatal nursing is best thought of as the offering of healthcare nursing to newborn infants. These newborn infants, as students in nursing programs will learn, have to be no older than 28 days old. The word “neonatal” itself comes from the word “neo,” which itself comes from “natal” and “new,” meaning a reference to either origin or birth. Nurses who work in neonatal nursing occupations are an integral part of the neonatal care team. [read more] |
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Neuroscience NursingNeuroscience nurses are registered nurses that have a main focus on providing quality health care to those patients that have many different types of conditions and diseases that affect their nervous system. [read more] |
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Nurse PractitionerA Nurse Practitioner (NP) is classified as an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, and is one of the highest paying nursing occupations in the industry. [read more] |
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Nurse-MidwivesToday, those who become midwives after studying in an RN program are especially important because of the additional medical training that they have. [read more] |
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Occupational Health NursingThe decision to become a nurse of any variety is an honorable one. Nurses are so often the first and last faces a patient will see in a doctor’s office or hospital, and perform their jobs with such competency and good will the patient is often set at ease by these people. [read more] |
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Oncology NursingThe registered nurse who helps doctors in the general practice of medicine is probably the kind of nurse most familiar to the general public. Anyone who is interested in pursuing a nursing career, however, understands that nurses can specialize in nearly every form of medicine and work directly with patients and diseases on which a particular form of medicine concentrates. [read more] |
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Parish NursingParish nurses provide pastoral nursing, not hands-on care. They are registered nurses who provide education, counseling, referral, advocacy and volunteer coordination. [read more] |
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Pediatric NursingRegistered nurses specialize in various fields to provide acute care to patients in segments such as children and adolescent care (pediatrics), elderly and adult (gerontology), newborns (neonatology), and much more. The pediatric nursing program provides specialized training to provide care to children, infants and adolescents. [read more] |
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Perioperative NursingThe nursing specialty of perioperative nursing can be thought of as a specialty that works with people who are undergoing operative or invasive procedures. [read more] |
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Primary Care NursingHow to Become a Nurse Practitioner[read more] |
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Psychiatric NursingPsychiatric nursing is the specialty of nursing that cares for all types of people who are enduring either mental distress or mental illness. [read more] |
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Public Health NursingNursing in the public health sector is a type of nursing specialty, which students can learn all about in the right nursing programs. This kind of nursing specialty is one that is concerned with offering nursing services that can only benefit the public health of a society. [read more] |
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Radiology NursingRadiology nurses provide the necessary healthcare for diverse populations of patients in the radiology department of a hospital or other medical facility. [read more] |
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Rehabilitation NursingRehabilitation nursing is a specialty in the nursing field that students can learn about as they take nursing programs in nursing schools. [read more] |
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Respiratory NursingA respiratory nurse is a nurse who has been trained specifically to work with patients who are suffering from respiratory ailments. [read more] |
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School NursingSchool nursing is defined as a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well-being, academic success, and lifelong achievement of students. [read more] |
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Telephone Triage NursingTelephone triage nursing is also known as phone triage nursing and involves providing support, consultations, and advice over the phone to customers, clients, and patients. Triage nurses enable hospitals and health care facilities to cut out the need for everyone to visit the emergency room when something is wrong. [read more] |
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Transplant NursingAlthough advances in medical science have occurred regularly since the dawn of human history, organ transplantation as a viable way to treat certain conditions and demonstrably extend a person’s lifespan did not really come into its own until the second half of the twentieth century. [read more] |
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Trauma NursingTrauma nursing is also called emergency nursing. As students will learn in nursing programs, trauma nursing is a nursing career where nurses care for and look after patients in the emergency or the critical phase stage of their injury or their illness. [read more] |
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Travel NursingTravel nursing gets its name from the fact that it allows nurses who may be licensed in one state to travel elsewhere for a nursing job. [read more] |
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Urology NursingUrology nursing specifically addresses patients with urinary tract problems in a hospital, urological clinic, or a practicing doctor's office. [read more] |