Is it okay to love parts of nursing and hate others?

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I'm a first year RN student, and I'm admittedly pretty green. However, so many areas aren't what I expected. I'm getting the impression from my instructors that "If you don't love ALL of nursing, that you are in the wrong profession..." Obviously, no one has said that directly, and I have a positive attitude, so I doubt that these comments are directed at me. I'm just curious at what you all experienced nurses have to say about this...

As always, I love lurking and reading your posts... you guys really do educate this poor girl!

Michelle :)

You'll never love every aspect of nursing. Period. Even though the nurses on the cardiac floors are oh-so-nice and understanding of my aprehension of taking care of a cardiac pt, I'd never trade my gen med pts for them in a heartbeat.

And I would be a very bad nurse to float to OB. IMHO, if you feel an overwhelming need to love a child and find you're infertile, adopt, and leave having a litter to animals. There are plenty of orphans in our world to raise.

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Specializes in Emergency.

In nursing school I really enjoied all of my classes! weird but seemed like I learned something new everyday!!

I chose ER nursing after graduation. Seems as if I do alot of emergency critical care medsurg aide work psych and female and geriatriac nursing. Yes we have a bit of it all in the ER. I still like all of the fields. I Like trauma/critical care the best!

Hard to believe I'll be a nurse for 1 year in June!!! wow how time flies!!!

( my comma button does not work please excuse that)

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Specializes in Emergency/Anaesthetics/PACU.

Love every aspect of nursing? No way!

I have to come to the conclusion that I hate ward nursing... period... ick.... give me ED/PACU/anything else but a stinky old medical ward! :chuckle It was however pretty much drummed into me as well, that you had to like ward nursing at least long enough to get a couple of years experience on the wards to be "a good nurse"...

Funnily enough, I would love to get into nursing education.... and become an instructor... so I can tell all my students that you do not have to love ward nursing to be successful!

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Posted by Michelle: "If you don't love ALL of nursing, that you are in the wrong profession..."

She's full of it! Ask her if she loves everything about her spouse!

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Specializes in Critical Care.

The best thing about nursing is that there are so many different types of nursing.

Noney

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I would have probably got in trouble in that class.. as soon as it came out of her mouth, she'd see me.. :rotfl: . It's crazy!!!

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Specializes in MS Home Health.

I disagree with your instructor. I hate peds, ob and psyc. Would leave nursing if I had to do that but I love oncology, hospice and home health.

Any other comments,

renerian

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There are so many areas of nursing how can someone love it all. I mean you can go from pregnancy to death and find a nurse at every stage. I do not like peds; so I work with adults. My friend does not like adults so she does peds. My sister loves the ICU and trauma. ICU and trauma scare me to death.

When I was in nursing school (a few moons ago) I was told by someone that the nursing instructor's job is to weed out those who will not make it. So sometimes they seem to make general statements like YOU MUST LOVE ALL OF NURSING.

I think the statement is just silly :chuckle

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Specializes in Inpatient Acute Rehab.
Anyone who loves all of nursing is probably severely mentally ill. :chuckle

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

So, SO TRUE!!!!

I dislike immensely working with pediatrics, and telemetry!!!

I like rehab nursing and home health.

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I thought I was the only person going into nursing who didn't want to work "wards"... *phew* See, this is why y'all are so valuable to me!!!

LOL at asking her if "She loves everything about her spouse..." *snort* Too funny! :chuckle

Okay, but here's a question - What's PACU? :uhoh21:

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

I hated mental health in clinical. I also didn't like the renal floor, since 23 out of 24 pts. were on isolation precautions. The masks make me itch some kind of bad.

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

Post Anesthesia Care Unit

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