List of nursing specialties

In the modern world, there are a large number of specialities within nursing. Professional organizations or certifying boards issue voluntary certification in many of these specialties.


 * Ambulatory care nursing
 * Advanced practice nursing
 * Behavioral health nursing
 * Burn nursing
 * Camp nursing
 * Cardiac nursing
 * Cardiac catheter laboratory nursing
 * Case management
 * Clinical nurse specialist
 * Clinical research nurse
 * Community health nursing
 * Correctional nursing
 * Critical care nursing
 * Developmental disabilities nursing
 * District nursing
 * Emergency nursing
 * Environmental Health nursing
 * Flight nursing
 * Forensic nursing
 * Gastroenterology nursing
 * Genetics nursing
 * Geriatric nursing
 * Health visiting
 * Hematology oncology nursing
 * HIV/AIDS nursing
 * Home health nursing
 * Hospice nursing
 * Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Nursing
 * Intavenous therapy nursing
 * Infectious disease nursing
 * Legal nursing
 * Legal Nurse Investigator
 * Maternal-child nursing
 * Matron
 * Medical-surgical nursing
 * Military and uniformed services nursing, including Public Health Service
 * Neonatal nursing
 * Neuro-surgical nursing
 * Nurse anesthetist
 * Nurse-midwife
 * Nurse practitioner
 * Nursing educator
 * Nursing informatics
 * Nursing management
 * Obstetrics gynecology nursing
 * Occupational health nursing
 * Oncology nursing
 * Operating room nursing
 * Orthopaedic nursing
 * Ostomy nursing
 * Pain management and palliative care nursing
 * Pediatric nursing
 * Perianesthesia nursing
 * Perioperative nursing
 * Plastic and reconstructive surgical nursing
 * Private duty nursing
 * Psychiatric or mental health nursing
 * Public health
 * Pulmonary nursing
 * Quality improvement
 * Radiology nursing
 * Rehabilitation nursing
 * Renal dialysis nursing
 * Renal nursing
 * Research
 * School nursing
 * Sub-acute nursing
 * Substance abuse nursing
 * Surgical Nursing
 * Tele-medicine nursing
 * Telemetry nursing
 * Telephone triage nursing
 * Transplantation nursing
 * Travel nursing
 * Urology nursing
 * Utilization management
 * Wound care