Nurses are never stuck. Why? The variety of settings, fields, and specialties in nursing is mind-boggling, and it continues to grow every day. And because nurses are needed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, they can choose their hours, too. People whose personalities, talents, and goals may be really wide apart choose nursing and thrive on it because of the richness and variety of options it can provide. And at different stages in your life, nursing opens doors for you, and lets you take — and succeed — at other paths you hadn't considered before. Full-time, part-time. Days, weekends, nights. High intensity or structured; lots of patient contact or strictly behind the scenes. Hospital-based, home-based, school-based, office-based, and more. Nurses may work in people's homes, in long term care, such as nursing homes and assisted living facilities; in other non-hospital settings, for example Nurse Practitioners who work independently, Flight nurses, Researchers, Military nurses, public health, school nurses, hospice nurses…and some nurses have combined careers, such as nurse attorneys. Nurses also work in traditional hospital settings, such as Emergency Rooms, Operating Room, Maternity, Pediatrics, and so on.