Places to Work in Nursing and Other Opportunities

There are a variety of places to work in nursing. While most nurses work in hospitals, they can also be found in the following establishments:

• Long-term-care centers
• Community health clinics
• Freestanding outpatient and surgery centers
• Medical offices
• Home care
• Nursing schools
• Corporate health centers
• Insurance and managed care companies
• Other companies
• Research centers
• Schools
• Military
• Peace Corps and international service organizations
• Hospital regulators

If you get into nursing at a hospital, there are opportunities to work in:

• Patient care units
• Operating rooms, trauma centers, and emergency rooms
• Medical records or other hospital offices
• X-ray and other diagnostic units
• Pediatrics (work with children)
• Hospital nurseries or neonatal intensive care units (work with babies)
• Obstetrics (assist with childbirth)
• Psychiatric and drug treatment centers
• Laboratories
• Helicopters and ambulances (assist patients in transport to hospitals)

Some registered nurses (RNs) may decide to go back to school and take classes that allow them to specialize in a certain area of nursing. These are specialty nursing areas that allow nurses to become the following:

• Clinical nurse specialists
• Certified nurse midwives
• Nurse anesthetists
• Nurse researchers
• Nurse practitioners
• Psychiatric nurse practitioners

As you can see, there are many opportunities in nursing to choose from. It’s just a matter of deciding which one is best for you.
Source: http://www.marylandhealthcareers.org/html/student/nursing.html

Originally posted by William Frierson