The Registered Nurse (RN) specialty is generally very female-friendly with a large majority (89%) of providers reporting as female compared to only 10% reporting as male. People living in New York, California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Colorado enjoy living in one of the 5 most popular states/territories where Registered Nurse (RN) providers practice. In all, there are 93,762 registered Registered Nurse (RN) providers in the United States with over 12,470 of those located in New York alone while around 7,874 chose to practice in California.
Registered Nurse (RN) providers have been assigned the 163W00000X taxonomy code in the NPI registry, which is a Level II Classification. Click here for more information about medical specialty types.
Overall, Registered Nurse (RN) specialists practice in 59 different states/territories and can be categorized into 55 different Registered Nurse (RN) sub-specialties: Addiction (Substance Use Disorder), Administrator, Ambulatory Care, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Case Management, College Health, Community Health, Continence Care, Continuing Education/Staff Development, Critical Care Medicine, and Diabetes Educator, among others.
(1) A registered nurse is a person qualified by graduation from an accredited nursing school (depending upon schooling, a registered nurse may receive either a diploma from a hospital program, an associate degree in nursing (A.D.N.) or a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing (B.S.N.), who is licensed or certified by the state, and is practicing within the scope of that license or certification. R.N.?s assist patient in recovering and maintaining their physical or mental health. They assist physicians during treatments and examinations and administer medications. (2) A provider who is trained and educated in a formal nursing education program at an accredited school of nursing, passes a national certification examination, and is licensed by the state to practice nursing. The individual provides nursing services to patients or clients in areas such as health promotion, disease prevention, acute and chronic care and restoration and maintenance of health across the life span.