List of nursing specialties
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In the modern world, there are a large number of specialities within nursing.
Professional organizations or certifying boards issue voluntary certification in many of these specialties.
Professional organizations or certifying boards issue voluntary certification in many of these specialties.
- Ambulatory care nursingAmbulatory care nursingAmbulatory care nursing is characterized by rapid, focused assessments of patients, long-term nurse/patient/family relationships and teaching and translating prescriptions for care into doable activities for patients and their caregivers....
- Advanced practice nursingAdvanced practice nurseAn advanced practice registered nurse is a nurse with advanced didactic and clinical education, knowledge, skills, and scope of practice in nursing....
- Burn nursing
- Camp nursing
- Cardiac nursingCardiac nursingCardiac nursing is a nursing specialty that works with patients who suffer from various conditions of the cardiovascular system. Cardiac nurses help treat conditions such as unstable angina, cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction and cardiac...
- Cardiac catheter laboratory nursing
- Case managementCase managementCase management is a managed care technique within the health care coverage system of the United States.- Case management in health care :The Case Management Society of America, a non-profit association dedicated to the support and development of the profession of case management through...
- Community health nursing
- Correctional nursing
- Critical care nursingCritical care nursingCritical care nursing is the field of nursing with a focus on the utmost care of the critically ill or unstable patients. Critical care nurses can be found working in a wide variety of environments and specialties, such as emergency departments and the intensive care units.- Training and education...
- Emergency nursingEmergency nursingEmergency Nursing is a nursing specialty in which nurses care for patients in the emergency or critical phase of their illness or injury.While this is common to many nursing specialties, the key difference is that an emergency nurse is skilled at dealing with people in the phase when a diagnosis...
- Environmental health nursing
- Faith community nursingFaith Community NursingFaith Community Nursing, also known as Parish Nursing, Congregational Nursing or Church Nursing, is a movement of over 10,000 registered nurses, primarily in the United States and Canada, but growing in numbers in the United Kingdom, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and South...
- Flight nursingFlight nurseA Flight Nurse is traditionally a specialty where highly trained Registered Nurses provide comprehensive prehospital and emergency and critical care to all types of patients during aeromedical evacuation or rescue operations aboard helicopter and propeller aircraft or jet aircraft.Flight Nurses are...
- Forensic nursing
- Gastroenterology nursing
- Genetics nursing
- Geriatric nursingGeriatric nursingGeriatric nursing is the specialty that concerns itself with the provision of nursing services to geriatric or aged individuals.-Geriatric nursing:...
- Health visitingHealth visitorHealth visitors are UK community health nurses who have undertaken further training to work as part of a primary health care team. As their name suggests, their role is to promote mental, physical and social well-being in the community by giving advice and support to families in all age groups...
- Home health nursingHome health nursingHome health nursing is a nursing specialty in which registered nurses provide home care to patients. Home health nurses also supervise home health aides. The professional nursing organization for home health nurses is the Home Healthcare Nurses Association ....
- Hospice nursing
- Hyperbaric nursingHyperbaric nursingHyperbaric nursing is a nursing specialty involved in the care of patients receiving hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The National Board of Diving and Hyperbaric Medical Technology offers certification in hyperbaric nursing as a Certified Hyperbaric Registered Nurse . The professional nursing...
- Immunology and allergy nursing
- Intavenous therapy nursing
- Infection control nursing
- Infectious disease nursing
- Legal nursingLegal nurse consultantA legal nurse consultant is a registered nurse who uses expertise as a health care provider and specialized training to consult on medical-related legal cases. LNCs assist attorneys in reading medical records and understanding medical terminology and healthcare issues to achieve the best results...
- Maternal-child nursingMaternal-child nursingMaternal-child nursing refers to the combined nursing specialties of obstetrical nursing, pediatric nursing, and neonatal nursing....
- Medical-surgical nursingMedical-surgical nursingMedical-surgical nursing is a nursing specialty area concerned with the care of adult patients in a broad range of settings. The Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses is a specialty nursing organization dedicated to nurturing medical-surgical nurses as they advance their careers...
- Military and uniformed services nursing
- Neonatal nursingNeonatal nursingNeonatal nursing is the provision of nursing care for newborn infants up to 28 days after birth. The term neonatal comes from neo, "new", and natal, "pertaining to birth or origin"...
- Neuro-surgical nursing
- Nursing informatics
- Nursing managementNursing managementNursing management is performing leadership functions of governance and decision-making within organizations employing nurses. It includes processes common to all management like planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling...
- Obstetrical nursingObstetrical nursingObstetrical nursing, also called perinatal nursing, is a nursing specialty that works with patients who are attempting to become pregnant, are currently pregnant, or are recently delivered. Obstetrical nurses help provide prenatal care and testing, care of patients experiencing pregnancy...
- Occupational health nursing
- Oncology nursingOncology nursing-Certification in the United States:The Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation offers several different options for board certification in oncology nursing...
- Orthopaedic nursingOrthopaedic nursingOrthopaedic nursing is a nursing specialty focused on the prevention and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders. Orthopaedic issues range from acute problems such as fractures or hospitalization for joint replacement to chronic systemic disorders such as loss of bone density or lupus...
- Ostomy nursing
- Palliative care nursing
- Pediatric nursing
- Perianesthesia nursingPerianesthesia nursingPerianesthesia nursing is a nursing specialty practice area concerned with providing nursing care to patients undergoing or recovering from anesthesia. Perianesthesia nursing encompasses several sub-specialty practice areas and represents a diverse number of practice environments and skill sets...
- Perioperative nursingPerioperative nursingPerioperative nursing is a nursing specialty that works with patients who are having operative or other invasive procedures. Perioperative nurses work closely with surgeons, nurse anesthetists, surgical technologists, and nurse practitioners...
- Private duty nursingPrivate duty nursingPrivate duty nursing is the care of clients by nurses, whether an RN or LPN/LVN .Most nurses who provide private duty care are working one-on-one with individual clients...
- Psychiatric or mental health nursingPsychiatric and mental health nursingPsychiatric nursing or mental health nursing is the specialty of nursing that cares for people of all ages with mental illness or mental distress, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, psychosis, depression or dementia...
- Public health nursing
- Pulmonary nursing
- Quality improvement
- Radiology nursing
- Rehabilitation nursing
- Renal nursing
- School nursingSchool nursingSchool nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well being, academic success, and lifelong achievement of students...
- Sub-acute nursing
- Substance abuse nursing
- Surgical nursingSurgical nursingSurgical patients are nursed on different wards to medical patients in the UK and Australia. Nursing practice on surgical wards differs from that of medical wards....
- TelenursingTelenursingTelenursing refers to the use of telecommunications and information technology for providing nursing services in health care whenever a large physical distance exists between patient and nurse, or between any number of nurses...
- Telephone triage nursing
- Transplantation nursing
- Trauma nursing
- Urology nursing
- Utilization managementUtilization managementUtilization management is the evaluation of the appropriateness, medical need and efficiency of health care services procedures and facilities according to established criteria or guidelines and under the provisions of an applicable health benefits plan...
- Wound care