Types of Nurses

Types of Nurses is a short, student-made story. The author of this is Tami, a 6th grade student. 

There are 39 different types of nurse’s. A few include:

Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner

An Adult-Gerontology Nurse Practitioner’s (AGNP) median salary is over $123,000. They provide the highest-quality care for elderly patients.

Orthopedic Registered Nurse
Orthopedic Registered Nurses take care of people with musculoskeletal diseases and disorders, like arthritis, and broken bones. Their average salary is over $99,000. Also, once patients get surgery they will take care of the patients until they recover.

Travel Registered nurse

A Travel Registered Nurse is a registered nurse who accepts healthcare facilities across the country. A travel nurse makes $3,000 per week on average, with potential for over $100,000 per year. A travel RNs administer medications to patients, conduct tests and exams, diagnose symptoms, and communicate information to physicians and healthcare professionals among other tasks.

School Nurse

A school nurse provides health services to students when they are at school. For example you’ll treat injuries and mild to acute illnesses, or support students with other differences in health, facilitate optimal development and advance academic success. Their average salary is over $53,000.

Labor and Delivery Nurse

A Labor and Delivery Nurse walks with mothers during their final stage of pregnancy helping with breaching, monitoring the mother’s vital signs, and becoming astute in signs, and symptoms of possible complications. Their average salary is $76,000. All nurses in Labor and Delivery work together to achieve safer, healthier, better outcomes for babies and mothers.

Home Care Registered Nurse

A Home Care RN’s job is bathing and cleaning their patient daily, checking their temperature, blood pressure, pulse and other vital signs, and also administering and maintaining a record of all prescribed medication. In general, the goal of home health care is to treat an illness or injury. Their salary range is about $96,000.

Radiology Registered Nurse

What do Radiology Registered Nurses do? They do X-rays tests on their patients. Besides X-rays, radiology helps in imaging procedures in other imaging processes as well. This technology allows doctors and surgeons to access real-time pictures of the inside body. As a Radiology Registered Nurse, their median salary is $65,000.

Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse

(ICU) What does an Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse do, you may ask? Well what they do is serve as a patient advocate by promoting their physical, spiritual and emotional well-being. They typically have fewer patients each day than you would in another unit. As (ICU) their median salary is $77,600 per year or higher like $118,000 per year.

Certified Nurse-Midwife

As a Certified Midwife they have many duties including: caring for patients, communicating with doctors, administering medicine, and checking vital signs. What they do is make up for the biggest healthcare job for the U.S. Their salary is about $123,000 annually.

Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner

What do Women’s Health Nurse Practitioners do, you may ask? What they do is assess, diagnose and treat the health care needs of women throughout their lifespan. Similarly, an advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) trained to specialize in the healthcare and treatment of women, focusing on reproductive, obstetric and gynecological health. Their average salary is over $111,000.

The highest paid nurses earn approximately $217,000, and in California the nurse went to reveal how she made 500k a year and paid off her student loans. The most stressful RN job is an Acute Care Nursing, and the one that I am interested in the most is a Travel Registered Nurse or Home Care RN.