Can you believe that there are over one hundred different specialties you can explore in the nursing world? That means there is a whole world of opportunity out there for you to find something you truly love! Here are some ways you can find what you are passionate about and then match it to a specialty!
First Step: Evaluate How You Work Best
Do you work best under pressure? Do you work better when there’s a “prize” or “award” at the end? What about something more slow paced and intricate? Find out what makes you tick and then try to match yourself with something that will help you excel!
Second Step: Find A Specialty That Matches Your Work Habits
If you answered “yes” to working best under pressure, you should check out Ambulatory Care or Emergency Room nursing! If you’re looking for something extremely rewarding, how about a Labor & Delivery Nurse! Even if you aren’t into the blood and surgery types of nursing, you can choose to be a Poison Information Specialist or a Psychiatric Nurse. Love kids? Be a Pediatric Nurse or even a School Nurse!
- Ambulatory care nursing
- Advanced practice nursing
- Burn nursing
- Camp nursing
- Cardiac nursing
- Cardiac Intervention nursing
- Dental nursing
- Medical case management
- Community health nursing
- Correctional nursing
- Critical care nursing
- Emergency nursing
- Environmental health nursing
- Faith community nursing
- Flight nursing
- Forensic nursing
- Gastroenterology nursing
- Genetics nursing
- Geriatric nursing
- Health visiting
- Holistic nursing
- Home health nursing
- Hospice and palliative care nursing
- Hyperbaric nursing
- Immunology and allergy nursing
- Intravenous therapy nursing
- Infection control nursing
- Infectious disease nursing
- Legal nurse consultant
- Maternal-child nursing
- Medical-surgical nursing
- Military and uniformed services nursing
- Neonatal nursing
- Neurosurgical nursing
- Nephrology nursing
- Nurse attorney
- Nursing informatics
- Nursing management
- Nursing research
- Nurse midwifery
- Obstetrical nursing
- Occupational health nursing
- Oncology nursing
- Orthopaedic nursing
- Ostomy nursing
- Pediatric nursing
- Perianesthesia nursing
- Perioperative nursing
- Private duty nursing
- Public health nursing
- Pulmonary nursing
- Quality improvement
- Radiology nursing
- Rehabilitation nursing
- Research nursing
- Renal nursing
- School nursing
- Space nursing
- Sub-acute nursing
- Substance abuse nursing
- Surgical nursing
- Telenursing
- Telephone triage nursing
- Transplantation nursing
- Travel nursing
- Urology nursing
- Utilization management
- Wound care
Third Step: Never Be Complacent
If you try one of these specialties that you’re sure you’ll like, but find that you aren’t happy or challenged enough, don’t stay there! Never get complacent in your job or do things you don’t want to do. AHS MedStat can always help you find your next dream job!
