What was your favorite area?

MIA-RN1, RN · Jul 20, 2006

new Grads: what was your favorite area of the hospital training during school? Med-surg, Peds, Psych etc?? and why?
Any procedures you liked doing best?

Psych and OB, hands down. I like the interaction and talking/teaching, and I enjoy learning the many ways the human mind can interpret reality.

I did enjoy a nice dressing change now and again lol.

I'm a mother/baby nurse now.

leixlip · Jul 24, 2006

Psych was my favorite clinical even though it was not what I wanted to do. We did our rotation at a womens prison and had the best time. My favorite experience was a peds preceptorship which showed me what I wanted to do when I graduated.

hrtprncss · Jul 24, 2006

I remember, psych was the best rotation, hands down.

naijanurse · Jul 24, 2006

for some reason i relate to the psych patients and the peds...what does that say about me? lol, anyways, although i really liked psych, i didnt want to go there straight out of school, cuz i felt that i would lose my clinical skills. i was going to go to peds, but after a long talk with my clinical instructor, she suggested i get some basic med surg first. then i got the opportunity of a lifetime on the bone marrow transplant unit and decided to go for that. i figure i could always do pediatric oncology after i gain experience.overall, i liked all of my clinical rotations, except for maternity.

~shakira

abimathew · Jul 24, 2006

:monkeydance: my favorite area is my home beacuse there i have all freedom than any other place . :trout:

Great Dane · Jul 24, 2006

I think the danish system is different but out of 3½ years of education we shift between theory and clinical, and we have 5 months on a medical ward, 5 months surgical ward, 10 weeks psych and 10 weeks primary healthcare (old peoples home, home nursing etc)

Acually when I started I thought that psyc was something I would hate. But it turned out that I liked the way you really worked with people as a person.

The worst was at an old peoples nursing home, for people with demensia. Just the same day after day, bathing patients, telling them not to eat the plants etc.

I was also at an emergency room for medical diseases COPD, heart faliures, seziures, hypoglucomia, alcoholcis with cravings, people who had poisoned them selves overdosis, suicideattept or by accident. It was very interesting and fun because you could se some results of your work.

Psyc and emergency was the most fun

GD

RN and Mommy · Jul 25, 2006

I enjoyed the OR! I don't think I would want to work there anytime soon, but it was very interesting!! I also enjoyed the day I spent with a wound care nurse! I guess I have a strong stomach! :lol2:

nursemelani · Jul 25, 2006

L&D and post partum. Loved to watch the babies being born, and the parents reaction. I saw 5 or 6 and cried every time.

In post partum, a woman who spoke only spanish poured out her heart to me. I understood about half of it, but I'm sure that the real nurses were too busy to take the time to listen, so it was nice that I had the time to do it.

betmic2002 · Jul 25, 2006

i remember liking medsorg as an LPN student. But, as an RN student, i really liked theER. i still work medsurg though, go figure.

crb613, BSN, RN · Aug 8, 2006

I loved Psych...thought that was the place for me. I am in M/S and love it too! I hated OB, Peds....ICU no way! I may later decide to go to Psych....but for now M/S is the place for me.

Lynn4875, RN · Aug 8, 2006

I absolutely loved my OB rotation, no contest. Too bad there aren't many open OB positions around here!