Books on different Nursing Career Paths/Specialties?

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Hello everyone,

I just started nursing school and I'm still trying to figure out what area I eventually want to specialize in. I know I have some time to figure it out but I would like to read up on the different nursing specialties. It seems as if there are a lot of options out there but I don't even know half of them yet. So I was wondering if there are any websites or better yet books that give details on a lot of different specialty areas? Like the training needed, salary, the work you would be doing etc. The best thing would be a book that covers a lot of different areas, that way I would get a good overview.

Any suggestions would be highly appreciated!!!

Thanks a lot!

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Specializes in Acute rehab/geriatrics/cardiac rehab.

Hi there's a book called "101 Careers in Nursing" that's published by Springer Publishing which I found helpful. You could probably do a search on google and find it. :)

mom and nurse

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Even better: go to Amazon.com, and enter some appropriate search words (I used "nurse career specialty," but you could try others). I found several books that looked good. There ARE a lot of options, but that's one of the beauties of this career.

Jim Huffman, RN

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