Types of Nursing Careers

Excellent, Mona. Thank you for the research. This should prove very helpful for all.
This is now a sticky. Great info here prepared by Mona.Thanks, Mona.
Hi Mona, I was just wondering, do you plan on going for your BSN after you get your ADN? Or are you just going to stick with your ADN?
For now, it's an ADN. Because I don't have the money for more. I plan on working for a large University hospital here, and then will reimburse for tuition. Eventually, I would love a BSN, however, I don't even know if I would want to be a Nurse Manager. In my area, BSN's don't get paid much more either, maybe 25 cents more an hour?? Or so the nurses tell me. Where I volunteered they all thought I had a good plan.
What great information! Nursing is my 2nd career also. I am currently FINALLY in my first semester of an RN program. Don't be discouraged with the waiting. I highly recommend CNA work in the meantime as the 1st semester is all about skill and this will help take the edge off if you have never worked with patients before. I wish I had done this.
Thank You. I Am In The Same Boat As You, And This Has Helped!!! I Now Know What Type Of Career Path I Want To Take.
I have just made the decision to get into Nursing. I'm 39 and am going to go the community college route. This information was very helpful. Any advice for the NET? I'm humbled, but determined to become an associate RN.
i've found sites that give the specific careers withing nursing, except they didn't mention a lot of the ones you gave.thank you so much, all of your information was extrmeley helpful!
:angel2: I am thankful that I am able to get the information I am searching for, yet I suggest that you might include their nursing responsibilities, noy just their definitions. Then again, I am thankful enough. By the way, today is my birthday. I just wanna greet everybody (visitors and members) a Happy New Year! :hatparty:
thanks for the info list! i'm an old nursing student (changed careers after our children left home and started school part-time in late 40's), am in my last semester for asn, and have no idea of any particular area of nursing i want to get into.one piece of advice to any "youngster" reading this--go to school when you're young!!
and don't forget about Hospice Nursing- caring for the dying.www.hpna.orgleslie
I currently am on the waiting list for my local community college's ADN program. I am taking my pre-required classes in the meantime. Nursing is a second career for me, and I still don't know "exactly" what kind of nursing I want to do. I have been looking for a list like this for a long time. I hope it will help others out also. -Mona