3 Tips for Advancing Your Nursing Career
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Nurses are some of the most sought-after professionals in the healthcare field. With the various nursing careers available, many health professionals change their career paths to seek a new specialty or higher-level role. At some point in your career, you may want to pursue a new route to pursue a new passion or obtain a higher-paying job but are still determining how to get there.
If you’re trying to land a new opportunity, use the following tips to advance your nursing career.
Get specialization certifications
One benefit of being a nurse is that you can pursue several nursing specializations. Niching down to a specific area of health care can help you enhance and diversify your skills and transform your career. To get or switch clinical specialties, you can enroll in specialized training that can earn you a certification and boost your resume.
Here are a few examples of clinical specialties you can get certified in as a registered nurse (RN):
HIV-Certified Registered Nurse
Certified Asthma Educator
Certified Breast Feeding Counselor
Certified Flight Registered Nurse
Find a mentor
Professionals from all industries, including nursing, can benefit from having a mentor. Think about someone currently in your desired role and see if they can mentor you. A mentor can give you actual perspective into what you might expect when entering the nursing profession and tell you which resources you may need to succeed.
Join a professional organization
You can join several professional nursing organizations to help advance your nursing career. With many professional organizations, there are benefits like access to in-person and virtual webinars and conferences, resources, networking opportunities, and assistance with landing your dream nursing job. In addition, joining a professional nursing organization is an excellent add-on to your resume.
These are some well-known professional nursing organizations that you can join: