Where a specialist nurse can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a specialist nurse already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
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.
Also known as gerontological nurse practitioner, specialist nurse practitioner, company nurse, vascular nurse, paediatric nurse practitioner, diabetes nurse, nurse heart diseases, intensive care nurse, nursing specialist, heart failure nurse, nurse specialist, nurse practitioner.
Professionals 92 skills on file 12 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: advanced nurse practitioner, 71%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- nurse responsible for general care 60% covered · difficulty 61.4
- nurse assistant 56% covered · difficulty 55
- dental hygienist 56% covered · difficulty 55.9
- physiotherapy assistant 54% covered · difficulty 59.3
- specialist pharmacist 52% covered · difficulty 62
- dental chairside assistant 51% covered · difficulty 62.5
- dental technician 50% covered · difficulty 56.2
- pharmacy technician 49% covered · difficulty 62.2
- pharmacy assistant 47% covered · difficulty 63.5
- optometrist 46% covered · difficulty 67.8
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A specialist nurse needs 70 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- adapt leadership styles in healthcare management skills
- coach individuals in specialised nursing care communication, collaboration and creativity
- communicate in specialised nursing care communication, collaboration and creativity
- contribute to the advancements in specialised nursing care information skills
- evaluation in specialised nursing care information skills
- initiate life preserving measures assisting and caring
- promote health in specialised care management skills
- specialist nursing care health and welfare
- analyse quality of nurse care information skills
- apply sustainability principles in health care assisting and caring
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a specialist nurse does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
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Specialist nurse is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a specialist nurse’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.