Beyond the Bedside

Your nursing career is bigger than one job.

You may love nursing and still know that your current role no longer fits. You may be a new nurse trying to choose your first path, an experienced nurse ready for change, or a leader helping another nurse see what is possible.

Beyond the Bedside is a practical guide to more than 100 nursing career paths-from direct patient care and advanced practice to leadership, education, research, informatics, public health, consulting, corporate healthcare, and emerging roles.

Inside, you will find:

• Clear descriptions of nursing roles across a wide range of settings
• Education and preparation requirements
• Potential advantages and challenges
• Guidance for identifying your strengths, values, and priorities
• Clinical Pearls drawn from decades of nursing and leadership experience
• Reflection questions to help you move from uncertainty to action
• A Career Wayfinder approach for choosing your best next step

Dr. Ang, DNP, RN, draws on a career that has taken her from intensive care units and pediatric critical care to healthcare leadership, education, mentoring, managed care, quality improvement, and large-scale national initiatives.

This book will not tell you that there is one perfect nursing job. It will help you recognize the role that best fits your strengths, goals, and current season of life.

You are not starting over. You are building forward.