Nurses today have an incredible variety of options in what kind of work they do. Learn more about the careers of Regsistered Nurses, Registered Psychiatric Nurses , Nurse Practitioners , and Licensed Practical Nurses in this section of the site. 

You'll find nurses working outside hospitals in places such as:

• Long-term-care centers (rehabilitation, nursing homes, hospice)
• Community health clinics
• Freestanding outpatient and surgery centers
• Medical offices (eye doctors, dentists, obstetricians, surgeons, and others)
• Home care
• Nursing schools (as professors)
• Corporate health centers (occupational safety, consultants, educators)
• Other companies (pharmaceutical, medical technology, biotech, and others)
• Research centers (research nursing)
• Schools (including K-12, university clinics)

and the variety of nursing opportunities within hospitals is incredible:

• Patient care units at the bedside
• Operating rooms, trauma centers, and emergency rooms
• Medical records or other hospital offices
• X-ray and other diagnostic units
• Intensive care units
• Surgical and recovery units
• Same-day surgery centers
• Pediatrics, caring for children
• Hospital nurseries or neonatal intensive care units, caring for newborns
• Obstetrics, helping new moms give birth
• Psychiatric and drug treatment centers
• Laboratories
• Helicopters and ambulances, caring for patients in transport to hospitals