Specialty areas of practice 

Nurses are able to work across a range of clinical specialties.

Areas of nursing practice include:

• Adolescent health
• Aged care / gerontic
• Anaesthetics
• Cardiothoracic
• Community health
• Critical care
• Custodial
• Emergency care
• Maternal and child health
• Medical
• Midwifery
• Neonatal intensive care
• Neuroscience
• Oncology drug & alcohol
• Orthopaedics
• Paediatrics
• Palliative care
• Psychiatric / mental health
• Rehabilitation
• Renal
• School nursing
• Spinal
• Surgical
• Perioperative nursing / Operating Theatre

....and many more areas of specialty.

If would like to read about some of the jobs that real nurses are doing, read the Industry Career Profile on Nursing and Midwifery available at: http://www.graduatecareers.com.au/content/view/full/2551

 Nursing specialities - May 2005 (PDF File 130KB)

 Aged Care (PDF File 30KB)