Favorite specialty and why?

[IsseyM]

Hello everyone! I was just wondering what your favorite specialty is and why? Also which is your least favorite specialty and why. I like general because you see a variety of things, i especially like big bowel cases. I know that may sound weird. I also like general because i like to do 4-7 short to medium length cases. I don't like being stuck in a room all day with one case. My least favorite is peds and vascular. I like kids but circulating cases with newborns and really sick kids make me extremely nervous since things can go bad really fast. Vascular somewhat nervous because seems like most of our vascular patients are so sick and they're always coding. Some of it has to do with me being inexperienced and feeling uncomfortable circulating those type of cases. I'm not familiar with all specialties yet. I do think general will continue to be my favorite though. Can't wait to hear your responses!

[CirculatorRN]

I have been circulating for 4.5 years now, and I work in a level 1 teaching hospital. I do it all, Opth., orth. truama, orth. spine, Surg Onc., you name it.

I would rather not do ENT or GYN, just my perference.

I am going to transfer in a couple of months to SICU to gain experience for CRNA school. I am really going to miss the OR.

[RNOTODAY, BSN, RN]

I am new to the OR- just 1 year of experience--but I have to say I like all areas, but I am most fond of any cases that give me enough time to do my charting---for instance, put me in the tonsil room all day, and I want to cry!!! Takes more time to chart on the case then it does to *do* the case!!!

[toyacutie02]

I have been in the OR for about 10 months now and i'm still on orientation....so far i have been thourgh general, plastic, tumor, gyn, eyes, oral surgery, neuro, ortho, ent, and hearts so far...i'm currently in gu..and have ent and vascular left. The services that i love so far are general, oral surgery, heart, and neuro. I hate ortho, but i can circulate it they are just to disorganized.....but as of now my all time favorite is neuro!

[DNRme]

Trauma, esp ortho. You see something broken and you fix it. No bad smells, the docs are not weenies and you get to use power tools!

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

Ortho and vascular

[TALK-OF-MIAMI]

Im a future ST and I was wondering how can I specialize in plastics I wanna do other cases aswell but plastics is where I wanna be all the time...

P.S need advice

[Rezidentura]

Favorite service: Ortho/Sports medicine. Super fast past. Healthy patients for the most part. Get a mix of technical stuff and total joint stuff (Shoulder elbow). I'm not talking knee scopes all, day more complex knee reconstructions and shoulder multiplanar instability and all arthroscopic.

[caycay]

I love open Heart Surgeries!!! One or two patients, I'm finished working!!!

I hate having different patients, in and out of the OR (like in GSOR). The most fave part is when I scrub. Working with different kinds and different attitudes of surgeons is my most challenging part. I love to assist b**ch doctors!!!That makes me gauge myself how good I am. One time, I scrubbed on one of the scariest surgeons (as what they've said) in our hospital. He was nice to me all through out. After the procedure, that doctor went to me, pat my shoulder and thank me for a wonderful job. My colleagues went to wonder why. That gave me a sense of me:)

[OR_nurse_Britt]

craniofacial and other reconstructive plastics! those are my fave. they're also fun to scrub.

[danissa, LPN, LVN]

WOW!!!

All you guys are my new heros btw! From bowel stuff.(omg!)...to facial reconstruction...you see it all!

..To each and every nurse who does their jobs with all their heart and soul!

Me, I am in this for the babies, I love the NICU, (nearly) always have....always will. If I have 3 weeks off, I miss my work, I miss my babies, I know, thats sad, but thats me.

I could never do what some of you guys do, with adults, all the stuff from ENT etc..if I had to suction grown up sput,,,,I think I'd begone! With the babies however, the relief from that, its palpable, I love it, I love them all.

[fletchmo]

Ortho, Urology and anything else using a scope or video or some really cool technology. I tend not to like cataracts because of the dark, quiet ....zzzzzz ... then NEXT!

There is nothing more fun to me than new technology and it's application. The ultra-quiet Diode LASER or CryoSurgical procedures on Prostate, Kidney or Liver CA. Setting up room infrastructure for complicated devices that help patients in new and exciting ways. Sometimes you find out that the new techno toy isn't as cool as it sounded. Sometimes you find a really new and better way to do things. Then the job becomes an adventure.

[KayceeCA]

From my first day in the OR, my favorite has been hearts. I got away from them for a while and even worked in an outpatient surgery center at my last job. But now that I'm preparing to go back to work in the OR, I'm looking for a hospital with a strong heart program. I've never enjoyed anything else as much. Yeah, I've heard all the comments...the cases are all the same, they last so long, the surgeons are bears....but in the end they're the cases I enjoy the most.

Part of it is because I like long cases, and cases where I know what's expected of me. I love getting my room ready, having everything set up that my surgeons want, and knowing I've done everything humanly possible to make sure the case runs smoothly. I even have a (seriously sick!) part of me that takes a lot of pride in the fact that those a..hole surgeons don't have anything to complain about when I'm circulating.