Myers-Briggs Type

[piscesguy]

I know this is an often-used test. I've taken it three times since h.s. I am mostly an ENFP, sometimes an ISFP. Anyone else know their type? I wonder what other types people on the forum are, and if there are some patterns predominant among nurses. I'm sooo curious! Wheeeee!

[southern_rn_brat]

I just went thru this program the Catholic healthcare partners offers called Risen. anyone heard of it?

It was this totally awesome seminar about understanding your personality type, understanding your peers personality type, bettering yourself personally by learning to forgive others, accept, love and share with others. I cant tell yall how great it was.

it started with us all doing the myersbrigg before we went. they spent the whole first day explaining the types and how different they are and how the different personality types do their jobs differently.

I tell ya...as a person and a nursing manager, it really helped me to understand the people in my life and the people I work with!!

[smoo]

ISTJ here, quite a few of us..........huh

smoo

[gonzo1, ASN, RN]

ISFP--nurturer. Doesn't list nursing as a career option, but does list other helping professions.

[jenn_rn_nj]

ISFJ for me...I've taken it before and from what I recall I've always been I, F & J...I don't recall if I was S previously or not, though. It's been awhile (one of my psych classes in college).

[santhony44, MSN, RN, NP]

ISTJ here, too.

One of the jobs listed was primary care physician. Not a physician, but FNP.

[Luv2BAnurse]

Isfj

[bflogrl]

Hi. I am a pre-nurse, just applying but I volunteer in a hospice doing a lot of hands on patient care. Anyway, I am an ENFP with a strong "P." Now what can the creativity of the "P" bring to nursing?

[manda1027]

I am ENFJ, which I think is correct for me since I am currently staying at home with my kids....not nursing right now, unless you count all the boo-boos I fix on a regular basis...

[toons_are_rad]

Ok, I'd like to know if my fellow INTJ's share my troubles.

I really don't want to know too much about others feelings. I do and I don't. I want to know facts. Facts are superior to feelings. And logic rules. I only care about evidence, reason, and logic.

I'm not the unfeeling oof that I sound like either. I just have to remind myself to pay attention to, and validate other's feelings when I want to get to the facts of a matter and a logical solution.

I am a nursing student, and also an intj. Yes I share a lot of the same feelings as you. I feel easily annoyed in situations (IE when my boyfriend's mother has her nightly cry about her terrible upbringing). Emtional people with whom I am an aquaintence with unnerve me. A lot of times I don't know what to say and harbour a great deal of insensitivity. I would rather talk about science and politics than feelings anyday.

But what my mother mentioned to me only a few months ago was when I was a teenager her and my father sent me to counselling (was a difficult teen) and the counsellor told me to take the same personality test. At that point I was an enfj. (a very giving type prone to sympathy and sentimentality...HA!)

I also read somewhere ealier that it is almost impossible for a child or youth to be classified as an intj. Intj's only become so usually because of a parent or role model who despises weakness and inability to control their emotions. The traits of an intj are not usual, but rather a result of a (forgive me) jaded and logical environment. Just thought it was interesting. Any thoughts anyone?

[firstyearstudent]

I am a nursing student, and also an intj. Yes I share a lot of the same feelings as you. I feel easily annoyed in situations (IE when my boyfriend's mother has her nightly cry about her terrible upbringing). Emtional people with whom I am an aquaintence with unnerve me. A lot of times I don't know what to say and harbour a great deal of insensitivity. I would rather talk about science and politics than feelings anyday.

But what my mother mentioned to me only a few months ago was when I was a teenager her and my father sent me to counselling (was a difficult teen) and the counsellor told me to take the same personality test. At that point I was an enfj. (a very giving type prone to sympathy and sentimentality...HA!)

I also read somewhere ealier that it is almost impossible for a child or youth to be classified as an intj. Intj's only become so usually because of a parent or role model who despises weakness and inability to control their emotions. The traits of an intj are not usual, but rather a result of a (forgive me) jaded and logical environment. Just thought it was interesting. Any thoughts anyone?

I don't feel that it has anything to do with how I was raised. My mother did not reinforce or demand "logical" responses from me. I think it's just genetics. I've never been freaked out or impatient with displays of emotion. I just recognize it as something I'm not. I know intellectually that people's emotions (and my own) don't make any sense, but somehow I always expect them to and am often disappointed. What upsets me more is when people hold what I consider to be contradictory beliefs for emotional reasons. For instance, I find it deeply disturbing that so many pet lovers aren't vegetarians. Or that people consider themselves Christians but aren't non-violent (could support a war).

[Aradien]

I used to be an ENTJ, but I was working in the financial industry in accounting at the time. I have since left that job and am beginning clinicals this fall. I took the test again and now I am ISFJ or ESFJ depending on what kind of mood I am in when I take it.

It is an interesting exercise. I was never totally comfortable in the business world anyway.

Aradien

[NurseCard, ADN]

I took the shortened Myers-Briggs test and I'm an INFJ. No surprise there at all.

The last time I took the Myers-Briggs test I was an INFP. I kinda alternate between the two. I'm 50 percent judging and 50 percent perceiving. =)