Nursing Specialties
Main article: List of nursing specialtiesNursing 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.
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