Once you graduate from nursing school you will have a wide variety of places to look for nursing jobs. Where do most nurses end up working after graduation?
According to a survey by the Department of Health and Human Services, hospitals are by far the biggest employers of nurses. 56.2 percent of nurses work at hospitals. Next comes community and public health settings (such as schools) at 14.9 percent. After that comes ambulatory care settings, which includes physician’s practices, nurse-based practices, and health maintenance organizations. 11.5 percent of nurses work in these settings. Only 2.6 percent of nurses were employed in nursing education - which helps explain the nursing shortage.
Here, according to the survey, are some of the other places that nurses are employed: Federal administrative agencies, state boards of nursing, health associations, health planning agencies, prisons and jails, insurance companies, and other types of employment such as pharmaceutical and medical equipment companies.