Career Information
Once you are an RN you have the option to specialize in a certain area. Most registered nurses choose to follow a career path focused on a specific nursing specialty that fits their personality and intellectual interests.Some specialties involve being certified by a professional board or association which will often increase a nurse’s wages and long-term promotion potential.
Below are several names of popular nursing specialties... More information on these specialties can be found here. Each profile includes the average salary and educational requirements for nurses in that specialty field. Links to related professional organizations are also provided:
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A-D
- Ambulatory Care Nurse
- Camp Nurse
- Cardiac Care Nurse
- Case Manager
- Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Advanced Practice Nurse
- Correctional Nurse
- Critical Care Nurse
- Dermatology Nurse
- Developmental Disabilities Nurse
- Diabetes Management Nurse
E-L
- Emergency Nurse
- Flight Nurse
- Forensic Nurse
- Genetics Nurse
- Geriatric Nurse
- Gerontological Nurse Practitioner
- Gynecology/Obstetric Nurse
- Hematology Nurse
- HIV/AIDS Nurse
- Holistic Nurse
- Home Health Care Nurse
- Hospice/Palliative Nurse
- Infection Control Nurse
- Informatics Nurse
- Infusion Nurse
- Labor and Delivery Nurse
- Lactation Consultant
- Legal Nurse Consultant
- Long-Term Care Nurse
M-O
- Managed Care Nurse
- Medical-Surgical Nurse
- Military Nurse
- Neonatal Nurse
- Nephrology Nurse
- Neuroscience Nurse
- Nurse Anesthetist
- Nurse Administrator
- Nurse Attorney
- Nurse Educator
- Nurse Entrepreneur
- Nurse Midwife
- Nurse Practitioner
- Nurse Researcher
- Occupational Health Nurse
- Oncology Nurse
- Ophthalmic Nurse
- Orthopaedic Nurse
- Otorhinolaryngology (Head and Neck) Nurse
P-R
- Pain Management Nurse
- Parish Nurse
- Pediatric Endocrinology Nurse
- Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
- Pediatric Nurse
- PeriAnesthesia Nurse
- Perinatal Nurse
- Perioperative Nurse
- Plastic Surgery Nurse
- Poison Information Specialist
- Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
- Psychiatric Nurse
- Pulmonary Care Nurse
- Radiology Nurse
- Rehabilitation Nurse
- Reproductive Nurse
