List of nursing specialties explained

In the modern world, there are a number of nursing specialities.

Professional organizations or certifying boards issue voluntary certification in many of these specialties.

• Advanced practice nursing
• Aesthetic nursing/cosmetic nursing
• Ambulatory care nursing
• Burn nursing
• Camp nursing
• Cardiac nursing
• Cardiac Intervention nursing
• Diabetes Nursing
• Dental nursing
• Medical 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
• Haematology nursing
• Health visiting
• Holistic nursing
• Home health nursing
• Hospice and palliative care nursing
• Hyperbaric nursing
• Immunology and allergy nursing
• Intravenous therapy nursing
• Infection control nursing
• Infectious disease nursing
• Legal nurse consultant
• Maternal-child nursing
• Medical-surgical nursing
• Military and uniformed services nursing
• Neonatal nursing
• Neurosurgical nursing
• Nephrology nursing
• Nurse attorney
• Nursing informatics
• Nursing management
• Nursing research
• Nurse midwifery
• Obstetrical nursing
• Occupational health nursing
• Oncology nursing
• Orthopaedic nursing
• Ostomy nursing
• Pediatric nursing
• Perianesthesia nursing
• Perioperative nursing
• Psychiatric nursing
• Private duty nursing
• Public health nursing
• Pulmonary nursing
• Quality improvement
• Radiology nursing
• Rehabilitation nursing
• Research nursing
• Renal nursing
• School nursing
• Space nursing
• Sub-acute nursing
• Substance abuse nursing
• Surgical nursing
• Telenursing
• Telephone triage nursing
• Transplantation nursing
• Travel nursing
• Urology nursing
• Utilization management
• Vascular Access
• Wound care

See also

• List of nursing credentials
• Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not, London: Harrison, 59, Pall Mall