Explore Nursing
Do you want a career that offers flexibility, stimulates your intellect, and changes as your interests change? Then explore the variety of career opportunities that nursing can offer you.
Clinical Nurse Specialist: This role requires advanced study and the development of expertise in a specific body of knowledge and area of nursing practice. This role includes consultation, researcher, educator, liaison, and patient/staff advocate.
Flight Nurse: Delivers patient care on board a helicopter or airplane. Flight nurses provide continuous patient care while in-flight to transport patients from one medical facility to another and from emergency or trauma scenes.
Travel Nurse: Negotiates and accepts temporary patient care assignments with a travel nurse agency/registry within the United States or internationally.
Wound Care Specialist/Enterostomal Therapy Nurse: This role requires special training and certification. This nurse specializes in the prevention of pressure ulcers and the management of patients with wounds, ostomies (openings that allow for alternate methods of body waste elimination).
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The OHSU School of Nursing can help you explore careers like these and many more by offering academic programs from bachelor's to doctoral degrees. For further information about School of Nursing academic programs or future information sessions hosted at the Portland campus, review the School of Nursing Web site.
Some helpful links to explore the abundance of career opportunities in nursing:
Nursing--A World of Opportunity
Do
You Have What it Takes to be a Good Nurse?
Nursing
- The Ultimate Adventure
Your Nursing Career: A Look at the Facts
Hope to see you at an information session soon!