Nursing - Nursing Specialties

Nursing Specialties

Nursing is the most diverse of all healthcare professions. Nurses practice in a wide range of settings but generally nursing is divided depending on the needs of the person being nursed.

The major populations are:

• communities/public
• family/individual across the lifespan
• adult-gerontology
• pediatrics
• neonatal
• women’s health/gender-related
• psych/mental health

There are also specialist areas such as cardiac nursing, orthopedic nursing, palliative care, perioperative nursing, obstetrical nursing, and oncology nursing.