Choosing your nursing career path/specialty...advice???

SoulShine75 · Jun 10, 2005

HI Rn nTraining and thanks for the site. It was cool. It said my number one was dermatology....hmm, interesting.

This website is for medical students, but I'm sure it would work for RN's as well. I took it and it was surprisingly accurate with the top specialties being ones I have considered and one I have taken a position in. Thought you might be interested. But the way I found out where I really felt like I belonged was twofold: I took a position as an Apprentice Nurse in the ICU to see if it was a good fit for and then I compared how I felt in that unit to how I felt during my clinical rotations during school in other areas of the hospital. I made a very good choice....as a previous poster stated, it's a good fit for my personality and I like knowing all there is (or nearly so) about my 2 patients and being able to keep an eye on them instead of having one of my 6 or 7 patients code while I'm running around down the hall in another patient's room.
http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/specialties/
Melanie

rogramjet · Jun 10, 2005

HMMMMM...pediatrics. I love children. I would have a hard time with pediatric oncology, it would be hard. But as a Diabetes Educator, I would love to deal with more diabetic children. I am really concerned about the number of type 2 children that are being dx'd. I was a heavy child myself, so I know how they feel.

This website is for medical students, but I'm sure it would work for RN's as well. I took it and it was surprisingly accurate with the top specialties being ones I have considered and one I have taken a position in. Thought you might be interested. But the way I found out where I really felt like I belonged was twofold: I took a position as an Apprentice Nurse in the ICU to see if it was a good fit for and then I compared how I felt in that unit to how I felt during my clinical rotations during school in other areas of the hospital. I made a very good choice....as a previous poster stated, it's a good fit for my personality and I like knowing all there is (or nearly so) about my 2 patients and being able to keep an eye on them instead of having one of my 6 or 7 patients code while I'm running around down the hall in another patient's room.
http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/specialties/
Melanie