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

[SoulShine75]

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

[Cherish]

My top 4 were:

Emergency Medicine

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Medical Oncology

Anesthesiology

Pretty cool because I have thought about working as an advanced practice nurse in the ER or an oncology floor.

[ok2bme]

Cool site! My top choice was Pediatric & Adolescent Psychiatry, which is what I do!

[C-lion]

My top three were Dermatology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Radiation Oncology. I wasnt suprised by the last two but I've never even considered Dermatology!

Ha! Those were my top three as well...in that order! I wasn't surprised by Physical Medicine/Rehab, but I was by the other two.

[ImThatGuy, BSN, RN]

Preventive Medicine

Emergency Medicine

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Dermatology

Family Practice

I used to want to be a doctor. I never cared about derm because it's so specific and I like breadth. Other than that it's pretty spot on other than prev. med. Who really wants or cares about prventive medicine?

[Staragate, ADN, ASN, RN]

Bumped for usefulness.

[Kelly9405]

Thanks for the link! Very interesting.

My top 5 were:

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Radiation Oncology

Neurology

Psychiatry

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

(The area I'm most interested in is Psych. :))

[yotaka]

I got ED. Just what I thought. haha

[sugarmagnoliaRN]

Very interesting! I have taken others and this one seemed to be more geared toward what your priorities are at work than your personality traits. My top specialty came out the same for both though - neuro surgery!

[Staragate, ADN, ASN, RN]

Bumped because this quiz should be available. :)

The top ones that I liked that it listed for me were GI, Neurology and cardiology.

[frenchtoastwaffles, BSN, RN]

1)Neonatal - Perinatal Medicine

2)Gastroenterology

3)Radiation Oncology

Sounds about right, minus the gastro! Neonatal or Oncology are what I want to specialize in :loveya:

[blackandyellow]

1.) Neuro surgery

2.) pediatric surgery

3.) vascular surgery

4.) ICU

5.) Emergency medicine

Very interesting for me I've always thought I would like a specialty didn't think it would be OR related though. But I do like neuro's.

[sandyfeet]

Top 2 were Emergency Medicine and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. My love of algorithms comes through!

Bottom 2 were Psychiatry and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

Pretty spot on!