Adult nursing involves caring for adults, both sick and well, not only in the hospital environment but also in the community setting such as attached to a health centre or in nursing homes. An inherent part of the role of an adult nurse is the promotion of health through education, the prevention of disease and the care, sustenance and rehabilitation of adults undergoing diagnostic and therapeutic regimes. You may take extra courses to specialize in areas such as cancer care, women's health, accident and emergency, critical care, practice nursing, health visiting or school nursing.
Children's Nursing
If you specialized in children nursing, you will work to take care of children and young people, from newborn to adolescence. Because children react to illness in a very different way to adults, your trained skill in children nursing will help you to understand their particular needs.