Author: Rita Henry

By the year 2020, the United States will face a nursing shortage of
800,000 unfilled registered nursing jobs - and very few of those
jobs are in traditional hospital settings. These days, a registered
nursing job is as likely to take you into a laboratory or someone's
living room as it is to put you at bedside in the recovery room. If
you're just starting your career in nursing, or looking to make a
change, take a look at some of the non-traditional settings that
have registered nursing jobs available.

Home Health Registered Nursing Jobs

Home health care is one of the fastest growing sectors of the
nursing profession. As hospitals and insurance companies struggle
to lower the costs of delivering care, they've found that providing
nursing care in the home makes more than financial sense. Most
patients improve faster when they're in the familiar setting of
their own home. Registered nursing jobs that involve home health
care include geriatric nursing, visiting nurse jobs and community
health nursing. Some popular home health registered nursing jobs
include:

- Newborn visiting nurses make home calls on new mothers who have
just been released from the hospital. They offer suggestions and
assess physical and medical needs of both mother and child.

- Visiting chronic care nurses help keep patients at home who only
require a few hours of skilled nursing care per day or week. They
may change feeding tubes or start intravenous medications, assess
medical needs or change dressings after surgery.

- Early intervention nurses work with families who have young
children with medical needs at home. An EI nurse can make the
difference between keeping a child at home or choosing
institutionalization.

Occupational Health Registered Nursing Jobs

Occupational health is a growing field, and there are many
different positions for registered nurses within it. An
occupational health nurse may do initial assessments and physical
examinations on site, assess medical needs if someone is injured on
the job site or provide medical information and advice to employees
of a company.

Public Health Registered Nursing Jobs

Do you dream of making a difference on a wide scale? Public health
nurses are often involved in making policies that affect the
population of entire cities and states. Among the options for work
available in the public sector for nurses are:

- Clinic nurses do hands on patient care in a clinic setting.
Registered nurses and nurse practitioners deliver care and advice
to families and patients on nutrition, health, preventive care,
birth control and medical care.

- Nurses working for the Department of Health may be involved in
infectious disease control, monitoring compliance with health
guidelines and consulting on medical policies for hospitals and
other medical facilities.

School Nursing Jobs

School nurses work on site to help manage the medical needs of
students. These days the school nurse may float from campus to
campus, or be assigned to one school. Many schools now offer on
site clinics for students, and a nurse working in a school clinic
may be a student's primary health contact. They're responsible for
doing emergency care, assessing medical needs and providing family
contact points for school students.

Hospice Registered Nursing Jobs

Unlike traditional nursing homes, hospices offer round the clock
skilled nursing in a homelike setting. Hospice nursing jobs offer
the opportunity for a registered nurse to provide a personal touch
to severely ill and terminal patients in a less clinical setting.
Hospice nurses work under the supervision of doctors, but often
have far more autonomy in making medical decisions.

A nursing career opens so many doors that it's impossible to fit
them all into a brief overview. For more information on registered
nursing jobs and career opportunities, visit the Bureau of Labor
Statistics web site.

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