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Nursing In Victoria

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

pdficon Nursing specialities - May 2005 (PDF File 130KB)

pdficon Aged Care (PDF File 30KB)

Last updated: March 8, 2007
For information relating to this page contact: Andrew Oates, Nurse Policy Branch, andrew.oates@dhs.vic.gov.au
Site authorised by: Katy Fielding, Manager, Nurse Policy Branch

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