Personality Test for Specialty

[Travellpro]

Here is a personality test to see which area of nursing you may fit in with the best. It is 130 questions but it goes pretty quickly. They will ask you the same question multiple times which is normal.

http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/specialties/

Post your results!

My top three were rheumatology, general internal med, and hematology.

[emtb2rn, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

1 urology - don't think so.

2 othopaedic surgery - hmmm, interesting. Need to see.

3 emergency med - YES!

4 radiation oncology - hadn't really thought about being involved with CA.

5 ob/gyn - interesting. Need to see.

[Staric]

1)Peds

2)Hematology, nuclear medicine, rheumatology (all tied)

3)Ob/Gyn

4)radiology and aurospace meds (tied)

WEIRD.. And how FUN, thanks for the post...

[xray1965]

That was pretty interesting!

Let's see:

1. orthopedic surgery

2. cardiology

3. nephrology

[Lovelymo79]

i know no one has posted here in awhile but i took the survey and it's quite interesting!

1 pediatrics - yes! exactly what i want to do

2 emergency med - i’m very interested!

3 occupational med

4 physical med & rehabilitation

5 radiation oncology

6 dermatology

7 hematology

8 nephrology

9 radiology

10 obstetrics/gynecology

[Straydandelion]

Thanks for the link, a very interesting test.

[back2thebooks]

That was really cool. It confirms what I knew....I don't want to do family practice/peds/psych...those started at something like #35 on my list!

My top 3 were:

1. Pathology

2. Thoracic Surgery

3. Nephrology

My ulitmate goal is to go on and become a CRNA. Maybe I'll just do lung, diaphram, etc. cases...LOL We'll see...

Thanks for sharing this link!

[ziggles]

Wow!! this test showed that I ranked number 1 in Pediatrics and that's the area I already wanted to work in. This is a great I'm definately going to encourage all my classmates to do this. Thanks for the link!

[brownberrry]

just took the quiz and here is my results

Rank Specialty Score

1 radiology

2 dermatology

3 anesthesiology

4 physical med & rehabilitation

5 pediatrics

[Sand_Dollar, BSN]

This was fun! It was spot on with the first one, that's where I want to be, but the others I'm not so sure about.

1 emergency med

2 radiology

3 pediatrics

[futurenurseashley]

Well these are 3 specialties I've never even considered.

gastroenterology

dermatology

radiology

[RN BSN 2009]

dermatology pediatrics pathology

ive never really thought about dermatology!! lol

I dont think i could ever do peds, tho.

[liteskin_qtee]

my top 3...

1 general surgery

2 pathology

3 ophthalmology

I am very interested in surgery..I even considered the PA route because of the surgery rotations...interesting....