A Guide to Nursing Specialties

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It takes a special person to choose to become a nurse. Nurses are caring and dedicated people who take care of patients in many different ways. Those who select this field as a potential career have a plethora of opportunities available to them. In fact, there are more than 20 different types of specialties that a nurse can choose from. Take a look at some of the most popular ones.

Thanks, very informative

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Thank you. :)

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Very nice chart! Thank you for sharing.

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Some of those don't seem popular at all. Where's Emergency Nursing?

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This is very informative and eye catching guide. Anyone who would like to take nursing as a career should have this kind of guide.

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Specializes in NICU.

No peds? or my love of NICU?

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Specializes in Orthopedics.

What a great visual aid for those choosing a specialty. Still doesn't make it easier to choose which pathway though!

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Specializes in kids.

Hmmm....would love to have seen School Nursing, but a great infographic that I wil share with my guidance department for our College/Career day next week.

Thx!

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No OB, peds, case management, ortho, infection control, psych....?

I thought we weren't supposed to post advertising? CTU is a for-profit place.

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Soo many specialties and sub specialties! Critical care in itself has so much more sub specialties. Can someone list off all the ICUs? :)

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Specializes in NICU.
StudentNurseCJV said:
Soo many specialties and sub specialties! Critical care in itself has so much more sub specialties. Can someone list off all the ICUs? ?

Let me have a go:

PICU, PCICU, NICU

MICU, SICU, CVICU, Neuro ICU, BICU, TICU

am I missing any?

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