Nursing specialties Nursing specialties Cardiac cathlab, also know as the cardiac catheterisation (spelt with "s" or "z") laboratory, CCL or simply "the cathlab". ...more on Wikipedia about "Cardiac catheter laboratory nursing"
Cardiac nursing is a loose term that includes many sub-specialty areas. Cardiac nurses work in many different areas. These include: Coronary Care Units (CCU), Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory (CCL), Intensive Care Units(ICU), Operating Theaters, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Research, Cardiac Surgical wards, Cardiac Medical wards and others. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cardiac nursing"
A Certified Nurse Practitioner (CNP) is another title used to describe a Nurse Practitioner. ...more on Wikipedia about "Certified nurse practitioner"
Child health nursing is an area of nursing and medical practice with a focus on providing holistic care to infants, children and adolescents. It differs from paediatrics, in that the emphasis in paediatrics is ill-health and the alleviation of symptoms or disease. ...more on Wikipedia about "Child health nursing"
District Nurses are fully qualified nurses who in the UK provide care within the community. Typical much of their work involves visiting house-bound patients to help manage chronic wound or stoma dressings, monitor diabetics and sometimes to aid patients in remembering to take routine medication. They are trained to assess patient's needs for disability appliance provision (rails, ramps) as well as application for grants and welfare benefits. ...more on Wikipedia about "District nurse"
Health Visitors are UK registered nurses or midwives who have undertaken further training to work as part of the primary health care team. As their name suggests, their role is to promote mental, physical and social wellbeing in the community by giving advice and support to families in all age groups. Limited resources and staff within the NHS have traditionally meant that their work has been focused on childhood development, but the scope to expand their roles is slowly improving. ...more on Wikipedia about "Health Visitor"
Home care, also known as domiciliary care, is health care provided in the home by healthcare professionals (often referred to as home health care or formal care) or by family and friends (informal care). ...more on Wikipedia about "Home care"
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In the modern world, there are a large number of specialities within nursing: ...more on Wikipedia about "List of nursing specialties"
A Live-in nurse is a Registered Nurse who is employed to provide care for one patient whilst living in the patient's home. Live-in nurses working through an employment agency may spend a number of days, weeks or months with one client before moving on to another, though long-term patients will usually see only a small number of nurses on a rota system. This type of intensive service is usually privately-funded. ...more on Wikipedia about "Live-in nurse"
Midwifery is a term used to describe several types of health care practitioners, other than physicians, who provide prenatal care to expecting mothers, attend the birth of the infant and provide postpartum care to the mother and infant. Nurse-midwives in the United States may also provide gynecological care. Practitioners of midwifery are known as midwives, a term used in reference to both women and men (the term means "with the woman"). ...more on Wikipedia about "Midwifery"
A Nurse Anesthetist ( AE) is a Registered Nurse educated and trained to administer anesthesia. Their title, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA), reflects their qualifications and abilities. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nurse anesthetist"
A nurse practitioner (NP) is a registered nurse (RN) who has completed advanced education [generally a minimum of a master's degree] and training in the diagnosis and management of common medical conditions, including chronic illnesses. Nurse practitioners provide a broad range of health care services. They provide some of the same care provided by physicians and maintain close working relationships with physicians. An NP can serve as a patient’s regular health care provider. Demographically, nurse practitioners tend to be female. Physician assistants and nurse practitioners both provide similar services in most states, the major distinction being that nurse practitioners are registered nurses by trade and generally have higher education requirements. Both are considered mid-level providers and have lesser education requirements than physicians. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nurse Practitioner"
Nursing Informatics is a specialty of Health care informatics which deals with the support of nursing by information systems in delivery, documentation, administration and evaluation of patient care and prevention of diseases. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nursing informatics"
Nursing research is the term used to describe the evidence used to support nursing practice. Nursing, as an evidence based area of practice, has been developing since the time of Florence Nightingale to the present day, where many nurses now work as reseachers based in universities as well as in the health care setting. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nursing research"
An oncology nurse is a specialized nurse who cares for cancer patients. ...more on Wikipedia about "Oncology nursing"
Palliative care (from Latin palliare, to cloak) is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of the symptoms of a disease or slows its progress rather than providing a cure. It aims at improving quality of life, by reducing or eliminating pain and other physical symptoms, enabling the patient to ease or resolve psychological and spiritual problems, and supporting the partner and family. ...more on Wikipedia about "Palliative care"
Psychiatric nursing or mental health nursing is the branch of nursing that cares for people of all ages with mental illness or mental distress, such as psychosis, depression or dementia. Nurses in this area of practice will have received specialist training to assist with these problems and consequently there are differences in the way that psychiatric mental health nurses work compared to other branches of nursing. ...more on Wikipedia about "Psychiatric and mental health nursing"
School nursing is a specialized practice of professional nursing that advances the well being, academic success, and life-long achievement of students. To that end, school nurses facilitate positive student responses to normal human development; promote health and safety in the school environment; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self-management, self-advocacy, and l earning. This definition was adopted in the United States at the NASN Board of Directors meeting in Providence, Rhode Island in June 1999. ...more on Wikipedia about "School nursing"
Telenursing refers to the use of telecommunications and information technology for providing nursing services in health care whenever a large physical distance exists between patient and nurse, or between any number of nurses. As a field it is part of telehealth, and has many points of contacts with other medical and non-medical applications, such as telediagnosis, teleconsultation, telemonitoring, etc. ...more on Wikipedia about "Telenursing"
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