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Degrees for a Registered Nurses career:
Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required. Includes advance practice nurses such as: nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse midwives, and certified registered nurse anesthetists. Advanced practice nursing is practiced by RNs who have specialized formal, post-basic education and who function in highly autonomous and specialized roles.
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Degrees for a Registered Nurses career
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Adult Health Nurse + Nursing
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A program that prepares registered nurses (RNs) to provide general care for adult patients. Includes instruction in adult primary care, adult pathophysiology, clinical management of medication and treatments, patient...
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Clinical Nurse Specialist
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A program that prepares registered nurses to deliver direct patient and client care in clinical settings. Includes instruction in clinical pharmacotherapeutics, advanced clinical practice, holistic nursing, nursing p...
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Critical Care Nursing
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A program that prepares registered nurses to provide specialized care to patients with life-threatening problems, including those in intensive care facilities and on life support. Includes instruction in adult, neona...
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Family Practice Nurse + Nurse Practitioner
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A program that prepares registered nurses (RNs) to provide independent general care for family groups and individuals in the context of family living. Includes instruction in family theory and intervention, role synt...
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Maternal + Child Health and Neonatal Nurse + Nursing
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A program that prepares registered nurses (RNs) to provide prenatal care to pregnant women and to mothers and their newborn infants. Includes instruction in perinatal and newborn health assessment, stabilization, and...
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Nurse Anesthetist
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A program that prepares registered nurses (RNs) to administer anesthetics and provide care for patients before, during andafter anesthesia. Includes instruction in the biochemistry and physics of anesthesia; advanced...
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Nurse Midwife + Nursing Midwifery
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A program that prepares registered nurses (RNs) to independently deliver babies and treat mothers in the prenatal, delivery, and post-delivery periods. Includes instruction in pre-delivery screening, physician referr...
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Nursing + Registered Nurse (RN, ASN, BSN, MSN)
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A program that generally prepares individuals in the knowledge, techniques and procedures for promoting health, providing care for sick, disabled, informed, or other individuals or groups. Includes instruction in the...
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Nursing Science (MS, PhD)
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A research program that focuses on the study of advanced clinical practices, research methodologies, the administration of complex nursing services, and that prepares nurses to further the progress of nursing research...
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Nursing, Other
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Any instructional program in nursing not listed in the Nursing, General category.
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Pediatric Nurse + Nursing
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A program that prepares registered nurses (RNs) to provide care for children from infancy through adolescence. Includes instruction in the administration of medication and treatments, assisting physicians, patient ex...
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Perioperative + Operating Room and Surgical Nurse + Nursing
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A program that prepares registered nurses (RNs) to provide care to patients before and during surgery, and provide tableside assistance to surgeons. Includes instruction in operating room safety and preparation, asept...
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Psychiatric + Mental Health Nurse + Nursing
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A program that prepares registered nurses (RNs) to promote mental health and provide nursing care to patients with mental, emotional or behavioral disorders, in mental institutions or other settings. Includes instruc...
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Public Health + Community Nurse + Nursing
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A program that prepares registered nurses (RNs) to promote health and provide preventive and curative nursing services for groups or communities under the supervision of a public health agency. Includes instruction i...
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