Specialising
One aspect of nursing that many nurses find appealing is the range of specialties that you can work in. Chances are there is a field that suits you, your skills and interests. This requires either postgraduate education or nursing experience gained on the job.
Some of these specialty areas include:
- Burns
- Clinical nursing
- Community
- Dialysis
- Education (hospital or university based)
- Emergency
- Gerontology / aged care
- Infection control
- Intensive care
- Management
- Medical nursing
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- Mental health
- Midwifery
- Neonatal intensive care (newborn babies)
- Nurse practitioner
- Occupational health
- Oncology (relating to cancer)
- Paediatric (children)
- Remote area nursing
- Research
- Rural nursing
- Surgical nursing
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