A quiz to help you choose your nursing specialty...

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Recently I posted wondering how everyone chose their "specialty" in nursing, because I have no clue what I want to do yet. Surfing the net I found this site that asks questions that may help narrow things down. I think it's intended for physicians, but it has the same results. Check it out!

http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/RESIDENT/CareerCounseling/intro.htm

Specializes in Home Health Care,LTC.

my top 3 were #1 Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation #2 Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism #3 Neurology ??? Not what I would have thought.

Angie

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Specializes in Med/Surge.

Thanks-that was really interesting and it came out with the three areas that I thought I would like to work: Psychietry, Rehab/Physical Medicine, and oncology.

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It gave me radiation oncology as my #1, which is where I have wanted to work since I started wanting to become a nurse. Pretty intuative I thought. Thank you for the site:) .

Sunny

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Specializes in Home Health Care.

My top three were: Family Practice,

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation &

Rheumatology.......(I'm not really surprised)

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what a great site! THANKS FOR SHARING IT!

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Thanks for the site!. It listed my interests as

Nephrology

Family Practice

Cardiology

Pulmonary / Critical Care Medicine

Urology

Pediatrics

Except for Nephrology (only 6 months there) + Peds is well child care at summer camp after kids born---all of the above have been my focus for~ 25 years!

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ok guys.. i'd have to be the oddball..

:behindpc:

Mine said Nuclear Medicine.

Um, I'd never even heard of nuclear medicine!

*giggle* My first thought was of Homer Simpson!!

Watch out you guys... katydid is comin at'cha...

and she's wielding RADIATION! :chuckle

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Specializes in CCU, MICU, Tele, L&D.

my top was:

Pediatric Surgery

Neurological Suregery

Thoracic Surgery

Vascular Surgery

Plastic Surgery

um, i'm not a dr thus maybe not the right job for me!

the next ones after suregery was: Cardiology and Emergency Medicine which is what my passion is!!! so glad to know i am in the right direction. thanks for the site.

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#1 was not a suprise with Pulmonary / Critical Care Medicine. One was plastic surgery, I don't think so. ER was way down on the list which actually suprised me. The others were surgeries, pretty close to what I was thinking.

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My 1st 4 were hematology, neonatal?????, cardiology, and neurology...6th was neuro surgery. I was EXTREMELY surpirsed about the neonat...no desire to do that at all. Heme, cards, and neuro wasn't surprised about. I don't think I want to do tele, but heme or neuro, I'd do in a heartbeat from my personal and nurse extern experiences.

Recently I posted wondering how everyone chose their "specialty" in nursing, because I have no clue what I want to do yet. Surfing the net I found this site that asks questions that may help narrow things down. I think it's intended for physicians, but it has the same results. Check it out!

http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/RESIDENT/CareerCounseling/intro.htm

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Specializes in Obstetrics, M/S, Psych.

Child Neurology 18.97

Infectious Diseases 20.44

Hematology 20.64

Neurology 20.81

Psychiatry 20.81

Interesting...considering I am working in psych now, I guess I'm in the right place! TY for that site!

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First of all, hey everyone! This link/site was GREAT! Thanks! Here's the link to my results:

http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/RESIDENT/CareerCounseling/interior.htm?self-assessment.htm

I'm hoping it'll work. If not, oh well. I will say that I was kind of disappointed at what it revealed. LOL. Hmmm...anyway, here's what it said about moi:

Pediatrics

Neurology

Internal Medicine

Nephrology

Cardiology

Gastroenterology

Family Practice

Urology

Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

Geriatric Medicine

Child Neurology

Pulmonary / Critical Care Medicine

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Medical Oncology

Orthopaedic Surgery

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Radiation Oncology

Rheumatology

Otolaryngology

Allergy and Immunology

Hematology

Sports Medicine

Ophthalmology

Infectious Diseases

Colon and Rectal Surgery

General Surgery

Vascular Surgery

Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine

Neurological Suregery

Psychiatry

Plastic Surgery

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Medical Genetics

Dermatology

Pediatric Surgery

Thoracic Surgery

Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Preventive Medicine

Anesthesiology

Emergency Medicine

Pathology

Radiology - Diagnostic

Those are my specialties from lowest numbers to highest numbers. Just so I understood the site correctly: the lower the number, the more "compatible" the specialty? Hope this finds everyone doing well! Take care!

Erin

P.S. I had originally decided to do Level III NICU nursing(staff and then the NNP route), but with recent hospitalizations and surgeries, I have switched to neuroscience nursing. I *think* I'd still like to ultimately get my MSN. BTW: I live in NC and my goal is to work at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. Anyone in the Triad/Chapel Hill? I *know* some of y'all are in NC;-).

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