Different Career Tracks For Nurses

If you're thinking of becoming a nurse, you may be wondering about the different

career tracks you might follow once you've received your Registered Nurse license. Here are just a few:

If you're interested in special health conditions such as diabetes you can help people as a diabetes management nurse. You also can specialize in helping people suffering from addictions, cancer, drug addiction and even HIV/AIDS.

Are you interested in dermatology? What about the cardiovascular, gynecology, orthopedics, nephrology (the study and treatment of kidney disease), systems? There's a nurse for that.

Do you love excitement? Working in an emergency room might be up your alley. Or are you a more pragmatic, step-by-step person? If so, assisting surgeons in the operating room, or in the pre-operation room (getting patients prepped for surgery) might be a good fit. Nurses also work in ambulatory care, as home health nurses, as occupational and rehabilitation nurses and as critical care nurses, among others.

Are you interested in the elderly? A career as a geriatric nurse may be for you. This also nursing niche will offer many opportunities for those who enjoy working with seniors as the demographics of our country skews older. If you prefer to work with children and/or teens, working in pediatrics may be your calling. And let's not forget newborns (neonatology).

Nurses don't always work directly with patients. Nurse educators, for example, train nursing students and also create educational programs nursing schools use. If you love the law as well as nursing, a career as a legal nurse consultant may be for you. Nurse administrators can supervise other nurses, work with budgets, oversee a hospital's or department's medical inventories, and so on.

Many of the nursing tracks mentioned above require nursing knowledge beyond that of an RN, such as a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN). If you're an RN with an Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN), you might want to consider enrolling in an ADN to MSN program.

For example, many ADN-MSN programs allow working RNs who wish to continue working while going to school the chance to earn an MSN degree via their college's predominately online two-year program .

Wherever you decide to pursue an ADN-MSN degree, you should know that you're opening yourself up to a wonderful world of new opportunities in nursing. The profession continues to grow and evolve and, as you work to earn an advanced nursing degree, your career will grow and evolve with it.

by: Jean Henshaw

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