Anybody wishing the enter the nursing profession will find that choosing a career within that field could be a challenging choice.

There are hundreds of various specialized areas for nurses based on what they are interested in and what they find they can do when they're in nursing school. Many nursing candidates discover they're unable to work with sick children as it could be very emotional, when kids are critically ill, while others discover they love making critically ill children as comfortable and as happy as is possible towards the end of their young lives. Other nursing student enters into a field because a family or friend has suffered years from a debilitating disease and they wish to know how to ease and comfort their suffering.

Nursing careers could begin in a clinic or doctors office and may not be just what a person expected. Maybe there will be too much red tape when dealing with insurance matters or unpleasant office politics preventing the applicant from doing what they feel should be proper care for patients.

These nurses might be better suited for a job as a nurse lawyer, nurse advocate, nurse instructor, nurse legislator or nurse life care planner. Each and every one of these nursing roles take care of patients in a different way, yet all of them speak on behalf of a patient's right as a human being entitled to fair and equal treatment.

If science is what drives your passion instead of the people portion of being a nurse, then maybe you would be better suited for a career as a nursing researcher who would work along with research doctors and scientists to find out what hidden secrets lie inside the human body and how different medications or combinations of treatments can unlock a persons curing power.

If variety is attractive to you and you'd rather no two days of work were the same, then becoming an ER or ambulatory nurse, who can also be a helicopter nurse, may suit your needs.

Everyday presents different people and problems in terms of what will walk in the door next or where an ambulance will arrive at next. You may encounter the common cold on the same day as getting through a huge 20-car pile-up on the highway - you simply don't know - and everybody will need your aid instantly, no matter who or what ails them. An ER nurse is working in a fast-paced style environment since they're managing life and death at a moments notice. They might be busy for hours on end and then not see a single patient for several hours or an entire day.

One of the biggest growing nursing careers is in the trans-cultural nursing industry. This is an industry in which a nurse would aid an individual or family from another country and with different cultural needs. Healthcare provision is based on these individuals' particular bodily, spiritual and emotional needs and will be dictated by their own cultural aspects.

There has been a noticeable improvement in opportunities now becoming available in the reproductive health fields with more and more people wishing to have their own kids and now being able to do so thanks to developments in infertility treatments.