Advice needed on Personality 'Fit' to Specialty Choice

[RebaAdams]

I'm a Nursing Student, RN via Assoc Degree, will graduate 2006...I've wondered if there's a 'personality' test that helps show you what field of nursing would best suit a person. I would appreciate advice from experienced RN's about what Personality fits what specialty in their opinion. Reba

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rank,specialty area, score.

1 gastroenterology 45

2 dermatology 44

3 psychiatry 44

4 pediatrics 43

5 pathology 43

6 allergy & immunology 43

7 general internal med 43

8 neurology 42

9 rheumatology 42

10 radiology 42

11 occupational med 41

12 physical med & rehabilitation 41

13 nuclear med 40

14 ophthalmology 40

15 preventive med 40

16 anesthesiology 40

17 aerospace med 39

18 plastic surgery 39

19 hematology 39

20 infectious disease 38

21 nephrology 38

22 neurosurgery 38

23 endocrinology 38

24 radiation oncology 38

25 thoracic surgery 38

26 general surgery 37

27 pulmonology 37

28 med oncology 36

29 colon & rectal surgery 35

30 urology 35

31 otolaryngology 34

32 obstetrics/gynecology 33

33 cardiology 33

34 family practice 33

35 emergency med 32

36 orthopaedic surgery 31

[geekgolightly, BSN, RN]

that was a really interesting test.

Rank Specialty Score

1 psychiatry 46

2 pulmonology 46

3 allergy & immunology 46

4 dermatology 45

5 radiology 45

6 general surgery 44

7 preventive med 44

8 hematology 44

9 endocrinology 43

10 med oncology 43

11 neurology 43

12 rheumatology 43

13 physical med & rehabilitation 43

14 plastic surgery 42

15 nuclear med 42

16 gastroenterology 42

17 ophthalmology 41

18 radiation oncology 41

19 thoracic surgery 40

20 neurosurgery 40

21 infectious disease 40

22 nephrology 40

23 colon & rectal surgery 39

24 anesthesiology 39

25 general internal med 39

26 occupational med 39

27 otolaryngology 39

28 emergency med 39

29 orthopaedic surgery 38

30 pathology 38

31 aerospace med 38

32 urology 38

33 obstetrics/gynecology 37

34 cardiology 37

35 pediatrics 36

36 family practice 33

[elizabells, BSN, RN]

Yeahhhhh, NO.

Oh well. I guess I'm too special to be defined.

Anyway, neonatology wasn't even on the list. Although it did put family practice at the very bottom, which is correct. But radiology and urology at # 1 and #2? NO, thank you.

[geekgolightly, BSN, RN]

Yeahhhhh, NO.

Oh well. I guess I'm too special to be defined.

Anyway, neonatology wasn't even on the list. Although it did put family practice at the very bottom, which is correct. But radiology and urology at # 1 and #2? NO, thank you.

Psychiatriy was #1 for me on the test, and I feel that most of psychiatry is bunk and I don;t know if I'd ever enter that field. The thing is, I kept answering that I don;t mind not knowing things, that I don;t need hard and fast answers and that I love to listen. So i get stuck with psychiatry. Pulmonology is second. Might be because so many COPD'ers have anxiety issues. COPD'ers drive me cuckoo!

[casualjim]

I got about 3 different kinds of surgery, the ER which is what I want to do. How very Nostradamus

aloha

Jim

[Camelhappy1]

aerospace med???? What the heck...... got that as a top choice. How cool would that be though?????!

[hrtprncss]

Rank Specialty Score

1 neurosurgery 47

2 pathology 46

3 pulmonology 46

4 infectious disease 45

5 cardiology 45

6 allergy & immunology 45

7 nuclear med 45

8 neurology 45

9 thoracic surgery 45

Haha jeeze cute test...

[ortess1971]

Ha- that was pretty darn accurate. I work in an OR and do a lot of cystoscopies(to the point where one of the docs nicknamed me the "member wrangler"). My top two specialties listed when I took the test were urology and thoracic surgery.(I also enjoy doing the lung cases) Bottom specialty was OB/GYN- I hated my maternity rotation (love babies-don't like working with the moms)