What's YOUR favorite specialty area?

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Hi all - was wondering if you could share some more stories, I love hearing about everyone's experiences and talent on this site.

What's your favorite specialty area in nursing? Do you work in this area now- if so, how'd you end up there? What do YOU view as the pros and cons of your favorite specialty area? Did you always know you wanted to be a rehab, med-surge, ER, NICU, psych nurse, etc...? How'd you find your "niche?" I'd love to hear!

Thanks :thankya:

Plastic Surgery

All apsects of plastic surgery.....fastinating field of nursing. I found my niche when I took this job in an Plastic Surgeon's office.

Hi all - was wondering if you could share some more stories, I love hearing about everyone's experiences and talent on this site.

What's your favorite specialty area in nursing? Do you work in this area now- if so, how'd you end up there? What do YOU view as the pros and cons of your favorite specialty area? Did you always know you wanted to be a rehab, med-surge, ER, NICU, psych nurse, etc...? How'd you find your "niche?" I'd love to hear!

Thanks :thankya:

Specializes in Surgical, Peds, UM.

Utilization management - I do precertifications for inpatient hospital stays and elective surgery. I am in constant contact with Case Managers on hospital floors - they give clinical info on the patient's hospital course and I determine medical necessity/length of stay/acuity needed from the info given me. Although, obviously not a "clinical job" - my medical knowledge has definitely been broadened tremendously. It's a great day job and I would recommend it to anyone!

Utilization management - I do precertifications for inpatient hospital stays and elective surgery. I am in constant contact with Case Managers on hospital floors - they give clinical info on the patient's hospital course and I determine medical necessity/length of stay/acuity needed from the info given me. Although, obviously not a "clinical job" - my medical knowledge has definitely been broadened tremendously. It's a great day job and I would recommend it to anyone!

that does sound interesting! I will keep it on my list lol

Specializes in forensic psych, corrections.

Psych.

I knew in nursing school I was interested in psych (although I fell for the line that all good nurses start out in med/surg). I worked on a pediatric and adolescent neurobehavioral unit and now I'm happily settled on an adult psych ward (step-down for pending discharge, conditional forensic releases, and mostly short-term admissions).

Great stories, everyone. Thanks for sharing.

FYI, Indynurse, congrats on finding your niche- nothing wrong at all with "non-clinical" nursing. It's a good thing that a nurse is in your role and not someone else- you can obviously lend insight that only a nurse could... it's so neat that nurses have so many options on what to do these days.

Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

Still don't know, after about 3.5 years as an RN!! Always thought that it would be psych, but now that I'm actually doing psych, I'm not sure how long I'll be here in this specialty. It's not bad, but I'm finding that I actually miss Med/Surge. I'm possibly going to be trying something else, something new, in the near future.

Specializes in Trauma/Surgical Critical Care.

Trauma/Surgical Critical Care

Specializes in ER/SICU/Med-Surg/Ortho/Trauma/Flight.

ER/Trauma , SICU, and flight nursing always have loved it and did it always will I read a book called paramedics when I whas a teen and loved the er ever since.

Rod RN

Pediatrics :)

Been there since graduating 2 years ago - there to stay !!

Specializes in cardiac med-surg.
Utilization management - I do precertifications for inpatient hospital stays *** elective surgery. I am in constant contact with Case Managers on hospital floors - they give clinical info on the patient's hospital course *** I determine ******* necessity/length of stay/acuity needed from the info given me. Although, obviously not a "clinical job" - my ******* knowledge has definitely been broadened tremendously. It's a great day job *** I would recommend it to anyone!

where can i sign up!

Specializes in cardiac med-surg.

cardiac med surg the last 10 yrs of my career

love it

the heart is oh so fascinating

there is so much to learn about it...

Specializes in Psych, Informatics, Biostatistics.

Nursing informatics. I have specialized training/experience in programming/systems analysis.

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