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Critical care nurses can specialize in several different areas based on either the patient's age or illness. Geriatric patients are considered to be people over the age of 65 and nurses that specialize in geriatrics work in an adult intensive care unit (ICU). Pediatric patients are children under the age of 18, a nurse that works with very sick children can also work in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Finally, children are considered a neonatal patients from the time they are born to when they leave the hospital. If a child is born with a life-threatening illness, the child would be transferred to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Also, the location that the CCRN works can vary. Some places they can work most commonly include hospitals: in regular or specialized intensive care units. Uncommonly, they can work at some patients’ home in some flight centers and outpatient facilities.

The specialty areas of the critical care nurses can also be based on the patient's illness or injury. For example, a unit that is an adult intensive care unit, specialized in the care of trauma patients would be an adult trauma intensive care unit. The focus of the unit is generally on either an adult or a pediatric population, as the treatment methods differ from the age range. Another example could include an intensive care unit solely to care for patients directly before and after a major or minor surgery. Copied from [Critical Care Nursing]

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 * 1) "Australia's Future Health Workforce - Nurses" (PDF). www.health.gov.au. Commonwealth and all State and Territory Health Ministers. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-05-13. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
 * 2) "Critical Care Nurse." DiscoverNursing.com. Johnson & Johnson Services, 3 Jan. 2013. Web. 17 Nov. 2013.
 * 3) "Registration & Endorsement". www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au. Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.