Personality Type and Nursing

Nurses General Nursing

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If you don't want to read it all that's fine. Just take this test and post your four letters (the preference % isn't necessary but you can if you want) or just post your type if you already know it: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

You can read about your type here afterward. It's actually very fascinating stuff: http://www.typelogic.com/

I was just thinking about how much I'm struggling with nursing whereas before I've succeeded in every academic endeavor in which I invest my time and efforts. I operate from a very internal locus of control, so I'm not blaming my hardship on my personality type... but Nursing is inherently very structured... systematic... "real-world"...

So, while I made 99s in highschool, persisitent As and Bs in one of the most academically challenging private schools in this part of the US (with As and Bs often being 95+ and 85+)... I find myself at a loss... Making a D on my first nursing test (I was in the bottom three) and barely making a B on my second (pretty much average).

Anyway, I don't tell you that just to brag or something but to show the contrast between then and now. While I'm not considering changing my major (far too late for that) I have wondered to myself how much personality plays into it.

MBTI has two types dealing with how one organizes one's thoughts and approaches the world. The "s-type" or "sensing type." Sensors are very focused on the real world. They are naturally structured. The "n-type" or "intuitive type" are the creative individuals who might have a room that looks like a hurricane hit it, but can paint a mural like you've never seen.

I'm the creative type... I've done professional graphic design work.. I draw... I write music.. I write poetry... sing... I spend hours on nature photography... But my organizational skills can be crap, my room is notoriously messy, and my ability to memorize these endless assessment procedures is pretty low. I've found that almost all of my peers are s-types through talking with them and just figuring out how they operate.

It dawned on me that a large part of my particular level of difficulty with nursing is probably the very way my brain is wired!

So... what are you... S-type or N-type?

My type is actually very rare. I'm an INTJ.

You can read about it here: http://www.typelogic.com/intj.html

I wonder if N-type nurses are as rare as male nurses. I'm a murse by the way :p.

Specializes in Cardiac.

your type is

[color=#d000a0]infp[color=#d000a0]introverted[color=#d000a0]intuitive[color=#d000a0]feeling[color=#d000a0]perceivingstrength of the preferences % [color=#d000a0]67[color=#d000a0]62[color=#d000a0]50[color=#d000a0]11you are:

  • distinctively expressed introvert
  • distinctively expressed intuitive personality
  • moderately expressed feeling personality
  • slightly expressed perceiving personality

i took this test about 8 years ago and came up with the same thing.

:balloons: surprise....surprise in i am an enfj 33 25 38 44.

i knew there had to be an explaination for my messy room . . . and lack of

organiztion.

I am the same as you....and proud of it :)

Specializes in Long term care, Hospice.

your type is

[color=#d000a0]infp[color=#d000a0]introverted[color=#d000a0]intuitive[color=#d000a0]feeling[color=#d000a0]perceivingstrength of the preferences % [color=#d000a0]44[color=#d000a0]38[color=#d000a0]62[color=#d000a0]56

qualitative analysis of your type formula

you are:

  • moderately expressed introvert
  • moderately expressed intuitive personality
  • distinctively expressed feeling personality
  • moderately expressed perceiving personality

i've taken this test several times, allways get the same type. the first time i read it i thought, "wow, that's me!"

Specializes in OR, Hospice.
hello, fellow enfp! not too many of us here!

enfp here too! :yelclap::yelclap::yelclap:

I too am an ENFJ @ 56,12,38,33 %

Your Type is

ISTJ

Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging

Strength of the preferences %

67 38 1 1

ISTJ type description by D.Keirsey

ISTJ type description by J. Butt

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:

distinctively expressed introvert

moderately expressed sensing personality

slightly expressed thinking personality

slightly expressed judging personality

This is cool! It sounds just like me!!

Specializes in Cardiac Interventions/Surgery/ CCU.

Your Type is

ENFJ

Extroverted Intuitive Feeling Judging

Strength of the preferences %

44 38 50 11

INTJ

work in the ED maybe I should change jobs.:wink2:

I have found that I am a ENTJ. Very interesting. We also have had to do these for nursing school.

Specializes in Oncology, Apheresis, Clinical Research.

i'm an infp! i remember getting the same result when i took the test several years ago, too.

There seems to be some confusion- My test results are:

ENFJ. However, it has been nice to hear from some of you!

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