Career map

Direct patient care roles across hospital, ambulatory, home, and specialty settings. The foundation of nursing practice and the launch point for nearly every other path.

Roles focused on staffing, team leadership, operations, and unit or system performance — from charge nurse to executive leadership.

Roles that bridge clinical knowledge with technology — EHR optimization, workflow design, analytics, and safe adoption of new tools including AI.

Roles focused on teaching, simulation, academic instruction, onboarding, and workforce development — growing the next generation of nurses.

Roles that measure and improve care — quality improvement, infection prevention, risk management, and patient safety programs.

Roles that guide patients across settings and keep communities healthy — case management, public health, school nursing, and telehealth.

Roles that generate evidence and shape the rules — clinical research coordination, nurse scientist tracks, and health policy work.

Independent and business-building paths — consulting, legal nurse work, content and education businesses, and health-tech ventures.

Graduate-prepared clinical roles with expanded scope — nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists, clinical nurse specialists, and nurse midwives.