Best area to start nursing carreer?

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I am still along way off from becoming an RN so this question is just to satisfy a present curiosity. I a wondering where do you people consider the best area in nursing to start in? I am asking this from a standpoint as to where to gain lots of knowledge, and to broaden persepective. Maybe an area that is very diverse and that may give one a feel of where they may like to try and specialize, or just enlighten one to things that they may or may not like. Although I believe working anywhere in nursing will increase my knowledge.

I thought of the military, because I am told that there is a chance for you to expirience a wide variety of nursing expiriences, in many situations where you may not have all the equipment available that one may have in a hospital.

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Med/Surg. I'm sure that is what everyone is going to say. It will give you a good variety of disease processes/treatments.

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Med/Surg. I'm sure that is what everyone is going to say. It will give you a good variety of disease processes/treatments.

:yeahthat:

And, MICU.

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Med-Surg is your best start. It gives you the ability to learn several different pt types. You also gain valued organizational skills and the ability to focus on the overall pt instead of a focused body system. Once you feel comfortable in this area, you always have the ability to try different areas of focus, such as ICU, ER, Cardiac. Now if possible a med-surg unit which has telemetry and possibly a respiratory focus would give you the skills to move to those types of specialties with more ease if you choose to do so. I know many nurses who initially were hesitant to go to med-surg simply because of pt-nurse ratio, but once they got through orientation they absolutely loved it. :p

Tammie Cabassa RN, BSN

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I agree with med/surg. I went into Assisted Living after college into administrative. Boy was in for a BIG culture shock doing hospital nursing, traumatic brain injuries, developmental delays...trachs etc!!

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Siri,

Just out of curiosity, why the MICU (mobile ICU)?

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For me the answer was where my heart was:

OB/GYN/Newborn nursing.

No regrets 8 years later, despite not getting the requisite med-surg experience.

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I think MICU meant Medical Intensive Care Unit.

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I;m new and in a very busy peds med-surg floor

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I think MICU meant Medical Intensive Care Unit.

Ahh, ok. Gracias!

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Specializes in Telemetry, ICU, Resource Pool, Dialysis.

Bicycleboy - I don't think med-surg is the answer for everybody! It's a great place to start if you aren't really sure where your interests are, or if you just really like a wide variety of patients. Personally, I think you should keep a really open mind and see what catches your attention in school. You never know what might spark your interest as you learn. There are lots of different specialties, and experience in med-surg isn't always relevant to all of them.

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I agree with pricklypear!

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