Nurses General Nursing
Published Sep 3, 2001
697 members have participated
Take the poll....then tell us why? :)
andeam
23 Posts
MED/SURG!!!!
For someone who wants to be a nurse, I cannot handle bodily fluids other than urine and stool. Drainage and phlegm just make me gag, and once I get started, there is no stopping me!
HazelLPN, LPN
492 Posts
LTC...at my age they would mistake me for a resident.
Sydangle2
25 Posts
I picked Peds not my favorite by far.
Missy BSN, BSN
46 Posts
LTC. I can't help but stop and wonder will this me 50 years later? It's so depressing.
P_RN, ADN, RN
6,011 Posts
Family planning-abortion clinic, close second oncologey general unit, though hospice would be a dream is that contradictory? Sorry touch tuping eyes all fuzzy.
DreamyEyes
474 Posts
Loooooove Geriatrics and Psych. Put the two together...even better! I'm surprised how many people hate psych...or maybe I'm just a weirdo!
I could NEVER work in oncology. My dad, grandfather, & grandmother all died from cancer. It would just hit home for me too much.
Mission
240 Posts
Not on the list but for me it would be any type of inpatient setting. Hospital/LTC/etc politics are not for me. Went into nursing with no intention of doing anything but community/public health and research.
hecallsmeDuchess
346 Posts
No med-surg or pedi for me, thank you very much.
I've always wanted to work L&D, I think I have a passion for it. I can deal with LTC because that's where I've worked as an aide forever (6 years) so I'm comfortable in that environment. Plus, the elderly are just adorable and there are tons to be learned from their life experiences.
gayb77
7 Posts
I picked LTC .... not really my scene i prefer to be responsible for pts i can actually care for. However if Ortho had been an option i would have chosen that. I have a distinct aversion to Ortho, in my experience they are some of the crankiest most ungrateful pts available, oh and whiney to boot. JMO.
brownbook
3,413 Posts
I have always loved to float. I had a hard time deciding. I picked renal because I wasn't even exactly sure what it meant? I guessed maybe a dialysis unit? That just sounds kind of boring watching patients get dialysis all day? But I obviously don't know much about it. (In case there are dialysis nurses out there I'm not putting down your job!)
jxRN
I can't really do LTC/ Med-Surg
stress is too much on my body. Feel like i'm going to run around like a headless chicken. too much heavy heavy lifting for my back. I was told in nursing school to go into medsurg, but i'mma try to steer clear and head off to postpartum and psych, where everyone is a bit more medically stable, a bit more happy, and a bit more insane.
:) i'll see how behavioral health goes for me
Mike A. Fungin RN
457 Posts
OB/L&D
Was treated poorly (by RNs, not patients) during my maternity rotation in school, and haven't much reason to believe I'd be any more welcome in that setting now.