In the modern world, there are a large number of specialities within nursing:

• Ambulatory care nursing
• Advanced practice nursing
• Behavioral health 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
• 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
• Tele-medicine nursing
• Telemetry nursing
• Telephone triage nursing
• Transplantation nursing
• Travel nursing
• Urology nursing
• Utilization management
• Wound care

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

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