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.

• Ambulatory care nursing
• Advanced practice nursing
• Burn nursing
• Camp nursing
• Cardiac nursing
• Cardiac catheter laboratory nursing
• 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
• Home health nursing
• Hospice nursing
• Hyperbaric nursing
• Immunology and allergy nursing
• Intavenous therapy nursing
• Infection control nursing
• Infectious disease nursing
• Legal nursing
• Maternal-child nursing
• Medical-surgical nursing
• Military and uniformed services nursing
• Neonatal nursing
• Neuro-surgical nursing
• Nursing informatics
• Nursing management
• Obstetrical nursing
• Occupational health nursing
• Oncology nursing
• Orthopaedic nursing
• Ostomy nursing
• Palliative care nursing
• Pediatric nursing
• Perianesthesia nursing
• Perioperative nursing
• Private duty nursing
• Psychiatric or mental health nursing
• Public health nursing
• Pulmonary nursing
• Quality improvement
• Radiology nursing
• Rehabilitation nursing
• Renal nursing
• School nursing
• Sub-acute nursing
• Substance abuse nursing
• Surgical nursing
• Telenursing
• Telephone triage nursing
• Transplantation nursing
• Trauma nursing
• Urology nursing
• Utilization management
• Wound care

See also

• List of nursing credentials

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