Careers in Nursing
Your Career in Nursing Starts Here
Beyond the RN
Top Careers
Advanced Practical Nursing Careers
More Than Patient Care
Beyond hands-on care, a BSN allows a nurse to work in other functions in a hospital or other healthcare setting. Whether your interests are in a specialty such as hospice nursing, a management role or a new career as a nurse educator, a BSN can be the beginning of this new career for you.
Find Your Ideal Nursing Career
Whether you prefer more hands-on care, or you like numbers and paperwork, if you like high-stress situations, or a more routine setting, there is a path into nursing for you. Nursing is a wide and varied profession with a lot of different specialties and places you can practice. As a nurse, you will never get bored if you commit to trying new things and staying active with your education and exposing yourself to new opportunities.
Registered Nurse
Surgical Nurse
ICU Nurse
Pediatric Nurse
Nurse Manager
Hospice Nurse
Nurse Educator
Critical Care Nurse
Earn Your BSN
A bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) is the new normal when it comes to nursing education. Depending on where you live, the type of hospital you want to work at, and the type of nursing you want to practice, a BSN will give you the global view of theory and practice that you won’t get in an ADN.
Get Licensed
If you already have your RN, then a “bridge” program, RN to BSN is for you. But for those switching careers or adding starting from the beginning, you must take coursework toward your RN and then take the NCLEX-RN, a licensing exam required for all nurses to prove efficacy and safety standards will be met.
Begin Your Career
Take the advice of the many nurses interviewed on our site and try various paths within nursing, don’t take the first job you get out of panic, and be patient. The right nursing career is just around the corner. And the great thing about nursing? If you don’t like what you have chosen, change it!