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Advanced Nursing Degrees: What You Need to Know

Diversity Nursing

Pediatric care can be challenging, so PNPs must be highly skilled and educated to provide the best care to the smallest of patients and their parents. Pediatric Nurse Practitioners often work in pediatric outpatient clinics and in the hospital or pediatric specialties like cardiology or endocrinology.

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Mental Health Nursing Fast-Growing Field With Diverse Possibilities

Nurse.com

You can choose from a surprising array of care settings: inpatient psychiatric hospitals, outpatient clinics, emergency departments, schools, long-term care centers, or even correctional facilities. You can care for pediatric patients, students, adults, or geriatric patients. Inpatient hospital units.

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Nurse Practitioner Specialties Explained

Hospital Recruiting | Nursing

From there, the options are endless, with the ability to work in a variety of patient care settings, specialties, and capacities. NPs work in clinics, hospitals, schools, mental health facilities, long term care facilities, and just about anywhere else you find people needing care of their bodies and minds.

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How To Become a Registered Nurse

Nurse.com

Long-term care facilities. Ambulatory and outpatient clinics. Their talents are why nurses are highly sought after for a variety of settings. To start, RNs can work for: Hospitals. Skilled nursing facilities. Private practices. Correctional facilities. Home health agencies. Telehealth providers. Addiction centers.

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Four Places Where a Physician Assistant (PA) Works

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

who reported working in urgent care). 6 #3 Outpatient Care Centers Approximately 10% of physician assistants work in outpatient care centers. They may choose to work in a psychiatric outpatient clinic in Oregon or in the emergency room at an urban hospital in Chicago.

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Four Different Types of Jobs in Nursing

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

3 They are often the first line of care for patients and provide assistance with a myriad of basic daily needs. 3 While some CNAs work in hospitals, they’re often hired in long-term care facilities. 11 AGNP – Adult gerontology nurse practitioners (AGNPs) manage the care of patients – from young adulthood to old age.