Structured Summary
Abstract
Various branches of nursing practice limited to specialized areas.
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Classification
Broader headings
Narrower headings
- Advanced Practice Nursing
- Cardiovascular Nursing
- Community Health Nursing
- Critical Care Nursing
- Developmental Disability Nursing
- Disaster Nursing
- Emergency Nursing
- Family Nursing
- Forensic Nursing
- Geriatric Nursing
- Holistic Nursing
- Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing
- Maternal-Child Nursing
- Medical-Surgical Nursing
- Midwifery
- Military Nursing
- Nephrology Nursing
- Neuroscience Nursing
- Obstetric Nursing
- Occupational Health Nursing
- Oncology Nursing
- Orthopedic Nursing
- Pediatric Nursing
- Perioperative Nursing
- Psychiatric Nursing
- Public Health Nursing
- Radiologic and Imaging Nursing
- Rehabilitation Nursing
- Rural Nursing
- School Nursing
- Transcultural Nursing
- Trauma Nursing
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See Also
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Synonyms
3 entry terms
- Nursing Specialty
- Specialties, Nursing
- Specialty, Nursing
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Aspects Covered
12 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
general or unspecified; prefer specifics
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History Note
73(71)
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Previous Indexing
- Nursing (1966-1970)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Nursing Specialties. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D013041. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D013041
- Nursing Specialties. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69960115