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 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