Nursing practice is an act of providing care to the patients. In providing care to the patients, the nurses implement a nursing care plan which is based on initial condition of the patient. The scope of nursing practice is the range of roles, functions, responsibilities and activities which a registered nurse is educated, competent and has authority to perform. Nursing practice is underpinned by values that guide the way in which nursing care is provided.

Public health nursing, a term coined by Lillian Wald of the Henry Street Settlement, or community health nursing, is a nursing specialty focused on public health. ome areas of employment for public health nurses are school districts, county or state health departments, and departments of correction. Public health nurse may work on are infection control, health maintenance, health coaching, as well as home care visits for welfare and to provide care to certain members of the community who may need it.

Emergency nursing is the specialty that encompasses caring for patients of all age groups and conditions, from delivering babies and resuscitating trauma arrests to administering medication. Emergency Nurses treat patients in emergency situations where they’re experiencing trauma or injury. These nurses quickly recognize life-threatening problems and are trained to help solve them on the spot. To provide quality patient care for people of all ages, emergency nurses must possess both general and specific knowledge about health care to provide quality patient care for people of all ages.

Geriatric Nursing is the specialty of nursing pertaining to older adults. They work in collaboration with older adults, their families, and communities to support healthy aging, maximum functioning, and quality of life. Geriatric nurses work in a variety of settings, including acute care hospitals, rehabilitation, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, retirement homes, community health agencies, and the patient's home. Palliative care nurse is a health care professional who provides treatment and counsel to patients who are dying of incurable illnesses. Nurses work with physicians and other medical professionals to diagnose, treat, and care for individuals with progressive terminal conditions. They help patients and their family members cope with very difficult circumstances by providing information, counselling, and support.

Midwifery is the health science and health profession that deals with pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period (including care of the newborn. Neonatal nursing is a sub-specialty of nursing care for new born infants up to 28 days after birth. Pediatric nursing is the medical care of neonates and children up to adolescence, usually in an in-patient hospital or day-clinic. Pediatric nurses often provide emotional and mental support by being kind to their young patients.

Despite the stigma attached to it, more men are taking up nursing as their profession. Many male nurses also prefer travel nursing due to its higher pay scale and flexibility. This session focusses on the scope, advantages of men in nursing and possible ways to encourage more male students take up nursing as their profession.

Psychiatric nursing or mental health nursing is that the role of nurses to cares for individuals of all ages with psychological state or mental distress, like dementia praecox, manic depressive illness, psychosis, depression or dementia. Psychiatric nursing or mental health nursing is the appointed role of a nursing that has promoting and supporting a person’s recovery and taking care of people of  all ages  who are suffering from mental illness, depression, bipolar disorder, etc. Addiction psychiatry is a psychiatric subspecialty relating to the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of people suffering from addiction. This may include disorders involving drugs, sex, food, alcohol and other. Addiction psychiatry is an expanding field and currently there is a high demand for abuse experts in both the private and public sector.

Oncology nursing includes acute care hospitals, ambulatory care clinics, private oncologists' offices, radiation therapy facilities, home healthcare agencies, and community agencies. They practice in association with a number of oncologic disciplines, including surgical oncology, radiation oncology, gynaecologic oncology, pediatric oncology, and medical oncology. Oncology nursing extends to all care delivery settings where clients experience or at risk for developing cancer receive health care, education, and counselling for cancer prevention, screening and detection.

Transitional care nursing provides a patient-centred, free visit to people in the community who are not currently receiving certified homecare services. Their goal is to keep people healthy and safe in their home. Transitional care is a set of services designed to help patients regain health and function as they move from one setting to another - most often from hospital to home.

An advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) is a medical caretaker with post-graduate instruction in nursing. APRNs are set up with cutting edge pedantic and clinical training, information, abilities, and extent of training in nursing. APRN characterizes a level of nursing practice that uses broadened and extended aptitudes, experience and learning in appraisal, arranging, execution, analysis and assessment of the consideration required. Attendants honing at this level are instructively arranged at the post-graduate level and may work in either an authority or generalist limit. 

Telenursing refers to the use of information technology in the provision of nursing services whenever physical distance exists between patient and nurse, or between any number of nurses. As a field, it is part of telemedicine, and has many points of contacts with other medical and non-medical applications, such as telediagnosis, teleconsultation, and telemonitoring. Telenursing is growing in many countries because of the preoccupation in driving down the costs of health care, an increase in the number of aging and chronically ill population, and the increase in coverage of health care to distant, rural, small or sparsely populated regions. Among its many benefits, telenursing may help solve increasing shortages of nurses; to reduce distances and save travel time, and to keep patients out of hospital.