Nursing is a general field of study that includes numerous specialties. Many of the students that take on this level of education will do so with the hopes of getting a degree and continuing their education to earn subsequent degrees. The basic degrees include the BSN, or Bachelor of Science degree in nursing; the LPN to BSN program; and the Master of Science degree in nursing programs. In most all nursing fields there is the need to work with continuing education over the course of their study.

Since the nursing field is in dire need of nursing students with the prospects only looking more demanding in the future, this is a growing field with almost always open positions. The nurse may be able to work in any health care related location from hospitals and emergency care facilities to doctor's offices in private practice to nursing home and disability care needs such as in home nursing.