Graduate Nurse Jobs: Top 10 Specialty Nursing Jobs

Nursing school complete, now it's time to find out what your specialty is, if you are a nurse. Many nurses prefer to stick to merely working for a doctor who is in any line of medicine, but for some, this will not do. They require moving into an area of specialty, that requires specifically-trained nurses in order to get the job done, so to speak.

Okay, so what kind of jobs are available for graduates of nursing school, looking to get into specialty fields? Let's have a look at the jobs below, and why they are attractive as specialty jobs:

1. Nurse Anesthetist

The highest paying out of all the 10 at well over 135K as a typical annual salary, anesthesia is a very fast-growing specialty area for nurses. This is mostly used for surgeries or other procedures.

2. Nurse Researcher

This can be a highly rewarding job. It mostly entails research, and not much public contact, but it is still a specialty area for nurses, and is growing with leaps and bounds.

3. Psychiatric NP

Every psychiatrist's friend, the Nurse Practitioner who works with them are sought after in order to retain balance in a psychiatric office. This is done in a number of ways, and you must be sensitive to others and their issues in order to do well in this specialty area.

4. Nurse Midwife

As Midwifery becomes more popular for people looking to have the most "natural" birth possible, so does the demand for nurse midwives. In this profession, as a Nurse Midwife you will assist the head Midwife with each birth. Sometimes one or more are used for this.

5. Pediatric Endocrinology Nurse

Also known as a "PEN", these nurses help children with endocrine disorders. They are a specialty field, due to the delicate nature of their child patients. This is highly rewarding work, however.

6. Orthopedic Nurse

Orthopedic nurses deal with many broken bones and other types of issues within the specialty field. Many of their patients are children who endure sports or other injuries, so this can be very rewarding as a nursing specialty.

7. NP

Otherwise known as the Nurse Practitioner, this kind of specialty nurse can perform many of the duties that a physician can, as training provides for this. A very good specialty area.

8. CNS

Also known as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, training provide such nurses with the means for helping disease prevention, in addition to diagnosis and treatment of illness. Very demanding work, but rewarding nonetheless.

9. Gerontological NP

The Gerontological Nurse Practitioner mainly works with elderly patients, as opposed to the general public. This specialty area focuses specifically on geriatrics; health, wellness and illness.

10. Neonatal Nurse

This nursing specialty specifically has to do with newborn babies; 28 days subsequent to birth. There are smaller, sub-specialty areas to consider including premature and ill births as well as ICU-related births for infants that have a fighting chance for survival, but are in critical condition, health-wise. This can emotionally and psychologically tough to deal with, so not everyone can excel in this area.