Occupation Atlasspecialist nurse
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/18e14e61-495b-44cc-a7c6-df4c625934ba
specialist nurse
Specialist nurses promote and restore people's health, and diagnose and care within a specific branch of the nursing field. Examples of such specialist nursing jobs include but are not restricted to; ambulatory care nurse, advanced practice nurse, cardiac nurse, dental nurse, community health nurse, forensic nurse, gastroenterology nurse, hospice and palliative care nurse, paediatric nurse, public health nurse, rehabilitation nurse, renal nurse and school nurse. Specialist nurses are general care nurses prepared beyond the level of a nurse generalist and authorised to practice as specialists with specific expertise in a branch of the nursing field.
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Job Zone
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- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
SCISocial · Conventional · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social5.57
- C Conventional4.75
- I Investigative4.71
- R Realistic3.46
- E Enterprising2.38
- A Artistic1.34
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Registered Nurses (29-1141.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (70)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- accept own accountability
- adapt leadership styles in healthcare
- address problems critically
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- advise on healthy lifestyles
- analyse quality of nurse care
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply nursing care in long-term care
- apply person-centred care
- apply sustainability principles in health care
- carry out invasive cardiovascular procedures
- carry out nurse-led discharge
- coach individuals in specialised nursing care
- communicate in healthcare
- communicate in specialised nursing care
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- contribute to the advancements in specialised nursing care
- coordinate care
- deal with emergency care situations
- delegate emergency care
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- diagnose nursing care
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- empower individuals, families and groups
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- evaluate nursing care
- evaluation in specialised nursing care
- follow clinical guidelines
- have computer literacy
- impact of social contexts on health
- implement fundamentals of nursing
- implement nursing care
- implement scientific decision making in healthcare
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- initiate life preserving measures
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- manage adverse reactions to drugs
- manage communicable disease
- manage hospital-acquired infections
- manage information in health care
- manage multiple patients simultaneously
- manage personal professional development
- manage trauma through surgical means
- participate in health personnel training
- perform bronchoscopy
- perform diagnostic testing for allergies
- perform vascular surgery therapeutic procedures
- plan nursing care
- promote a positive image of nursing
- promote health in specialised care
- promote human rights
- promote inclusion
- provide comprehensive care for patients with surgical conditions
- provide health education
- provide nursing advice on healthcare
- provide professional care in nursing
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- refer healthcare users
- respond to changing situations in health care
- solve problems in healthcare
- specialist nursing care
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- use electronic health records in nursing
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
Optional (22)
- address side effects of menopause
- administer immunotherapy
- advise patients on infectious diseases when travelling
- assess physical conditions of clients
- assist in epilepsy surgery
- assist in kidney transplant
- conduct patch testing
- conduct polysomnography
- conduct preoperative investigations
- follow-up patients with heart attack
- patient safety theories
- perform endoscopy
- perform venous cannulation
- prescribe medication
- provide anti-cancer medical treatment
- provide nursing care in community settings
- provide palliative care
- simulation-based clinical education
- treat endocrine disorders
- use clinical reasoning
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
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