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mental and spiritual health in addition to their

1. Registered nurses (RNs), regardless of specialty
physical health
or work setting, performs basic duties that
22. Home health care nurses provide at-home care
include treating patients
for patients who are recovering from surgery,
2. Educating patients and the public about various
accidents, and childbirth
medical conditions
23. Hospice and palliative care nurses provide care
3. Providing advice and emotional support to
for and help ease the pain of terminally ill
patient’s family members
patients outside the hospitals
4. Record patient’s medical histories and
24. Infusion nurses provide medications, fluids, and
symptoms and help to perform diagnostic tests
blood to patients through injections into
and analyze results
patient’s vein
5. Operate medical machinery
25. Long-term care nurses provide medical services
6. Administer treatment and medications
on recurring basis to patients with chronic
7. Help with patient follow-up and rehabilitation
physical or mental disorders
8. Teach patient and their families how to manage
26. Medical-surgical nurses provide basic medical
their illness or injury, including Post-treatment
care to a variety of patients in all health settings
home care needs, diet and exercise programs,
27. Occupational health nurses provide treatment
and self administration of medications and
for job related injuries and illnesses and help
physical therapy
employers to detect workplace hazards and
9. Some are trained to provide grief counselling to
implement health and safety standards
family members of critically ill patients
28. Perianesthesia nurses provide preoperative and
10. RNs work to promote general health by
postoperative care to patients undergoing
educating the public on various warning signs
anesthesia during surgery
and symptoms of ds.
29. Perioperative nurses assist surgeons by
11. RNs might run general health screening or
selecting and handling instruments, controlling
immunization clinics, blood drives and public
bleeding, and suturing incisions
seminars on various conditions
30. They specialize in plastic and reconstructive
12. RNs can specialize in one or more patient care
surgery
specialties
31. Psychiatric nurses treat patients with
13. The most common specialties can be divided
personality and mood disorders
into roughly 4 categories by work setting or type
32. Radiologic nurses provide care to patients
of treatment, disease, ailment, or condition,
undergoing diagnostic radiation procedures
organ or body system type, or population
such as ultrasounds, and magnetic resonance
14. RNs may combine specialties from more than
imaging
one area for example, pediatric oncology or
33. Rehabilitation nurse care for patients with
cardiac emergency-depending on personal
temporary and permanent disabilities
interest and employer needs
34. Transplant nurses care for both transplant
15. RNs may specialize by work settings or by type
recipients and living donors and monitor signs
of care provided
of organ rejection
16. Ambulatory care nurses treat patients with a
35. RNs specializing in a particular disease, ailment,
variety of illnesses and injuries on a n
or condition are employed in virtually all work
outpatient basis, either in physician’s offices or
settings, including the physician’s offices,
in clinics
outpatient treatment facilities, home health
17. Some are involved in telehealth, providing care
care agencies and hospitals.
and advice through electronic communications
36. Addiction nurses treat patients seeking help
media, such as videoconferencing or internet
with alcohol, drug, and tobacco addictions
18. Critical care nurses work in critical or intensive
37. Development disabilities nurses provide care for
care hospital units and provide care to patients
patients with physical, mental, or behavioral
with cardiovascular, respiratory, or pulmonary
disabilities, care may include help with feeding,
failure
controlling bodily functions, and sitting or
19. Emergency or trauma nurses work in hospital
standing independently.
emergency departments and treat patients with
38. Diabetes management nurses help diabetics to
life threatening conditions caused by accidents,
manage their disease by teaching them proper
heart attacks, and strokes.
nutrition and showing them how to test blood
20. Some are flight nurses, who provide emergency
sugar levels and administer insulin injections.
medical care to patients who must be flown by
39. Genetic nurses provide early detection
helicopter to the nearest medical facility
screening and treatment of patients with
21. Holistic nurses provide care such as
acupuncture, massage, and aroma therapy, and
 genetic disorders, including cystic fibrosis and
Huntington’s disease
40. HIV/AIDS nurses care for patients diagnosed
with HIV
41. Oncology nurses care for patients with various
types of cancer and may administer radiation
and chemotheraphies
42. Finally, wound, ostomy and continence nurses
treat patients with wounds caused by traumatic
injury, ulcers, or arterial disease; provide post-
op are patients with openings that allow for
alternative methods of body waste elimination,
and treat patients with urinary and fecal
incontinence.