Do you have a nursing specialty you know you want to pursue?

Nursing Students Pre-Nursing

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Just for fun - for all of us hopefuls :)

Do you know specialty you want to work in?

I'm undecided and open to what clicks with me - but I'm thinking maybe NICU, L&D or ER.

How about you?

I would love to be a CRNA, but with kids and already huge student loan amounts, I'm okay with not pursing it at this stage in my life. I am undecided, but leaning towards Dialysis, hospice, or some type of outpatient nursing that doesn't require me to work holidays or really just Christmas. I know, probably not a huge deal to most, but family is #1 for me.

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I would love to be a CRNA, but with kids and already huge student loan amounts, I'm okay with not pursing it at this stage in my life. I am undecided, but leaning towards Dialysis, hospice, or some type of outpatient nursing that doesn't require me to work holidays or really just Christmas. I know, probably not a huge deal to most, but family is #1 for me.

You will work holidays, especially as a new nurse. Get used to it man. Also, inpatient is where you want to be as a new grad. I am doubtful an outpatient place will hire you that easily right out of school but if they do you are gimping yourself and definitely saying bye bye to CRNA anytime soon.

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Nicu, icu, er, pediatric icu...I prefer the NICU though!!!

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PEDIATRICS. I love kids! I am also considering working with the elderly. My boyfriend's mom is in a nursing home and with visiting her it makes me wish I worked at her facility. Some of these nursing homes don't take care of these people and treat them bad. I am also interested in going up to Nursing Administration or becoming a NP.My family and friends are pushing me to be a NP cause they said they can see my passion for nursing.

My biggest goal is to open a nursing home one day.

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As someone who's just starting school I'm leaning towards peds, but as I've been doing some reading I keep coming back to PACU (maybe PACU in a children's hospital). The variety, the pace (constant, but not as frenetic as the ER), all sound like a good place. I also remember being in the PACU after I had surgery and the nurse who was there as I was coming out of anesthesia was a god send as I was having POV and had just had an abdominal surgery...bad combination.

We shall see if clinicals reinforce or show me a different path. (I also look forward to working in psych.)

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My goal is to either be a trauma nurse or a neonatal nurse

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I had a business transfer before I went to nursing school so I thought about getting into management. CRNA appealed to me so I started doing some prereqs for that. I love psychiatric stuff. I was supper stoked to get a new psychiatric book from the local library.

I've done a personality test from one of the free Myers Briggs tests online and found I was an INTJ. So it says don't get into nursing... but go ahead a be a doctor, psychiatrist, etc. So nice of them. But if you go into doctor specialties by personality type apparently anyone can be a doctor. I figure anyone can be a nurse and I used their picks, which were anesthesia, psychiatry, pathology, etc. I found that I was indeed going in the right direction.

I'm not so eager to do CRNA. I don't like the meds vs. psychiatric meds in my nursing pharm book. I'm 31 so at my age I would be shafting the ICU just to get back into extremely expensive school. I don't know. I know more when I am a nurse. I want to keep my options open. In short, try your personality type against the doctor personality type, don't have that on hand you'll have to google it, and keep you options open.

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I kinda forgot to mention psych earlier, and it's getting more interesting to me by the day. Idk sometimes I think I know more people with a mental illness than without, myself included. I'm not sure if there's much for a psych nurse to do though if not in an institution or group home.

My advisor also mentioned sexual assault to me, also something I'm really passionate about but idk if that's something you can truly specialize in or if you'd get thrown into general ER a lot.

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Psych or ED. Sometimes it's pretty much the same thing. ;)

Ha right?! Psych is intriguing.

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I would love to be a CRNA but with kids and already huge student loan amounts, I'm okay with not pursing it at this stage in my life. I am undecided, but leaning towards Dialysis, hospice, or some type of outpatient nursing that doesn't require me to work holidays or really just Christmas. I know, probably not a huge deal to most, but family is #1 for me.[/quote']

I agree. I'd love to do crna but as a wife and future mama ( God willing) not sure it's even feasible and that's okay. :) My boss at an LTC has five sons age 5-21 and he loves it. It may be something to consider for you. Good luck!

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I have SO MANY areas that interest me. NICU, OR, ER, ICU, L&D....I will just have to wait until I get into school to see what is really the right fit for me!

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Don't forget about med surg. You see so many interesting cases and people with stories to tell. I know it does not sound 'sexy'. But it's the core and you have to have great management skills and assessment skills.

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