Personality Type and Nursing

Nurses General Nursing

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If you don't want to read it all that's fine. Just take this test and post your four letters (the preference % isn't necessary but you can if you want) or just post your type if you already know it: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

You can read about your type here afterward. It's actually very fascinating stuff: http://www.typelogic.com/

I was just thinking about how much I'm struggling with nursing whereas before I've succeeded in every academic endeavor in which I invest my time and efforts. I operate from a very internal locus of control, so I'm not blaming my hardship on my personality type... but Nursing is inherently very structured... systematic... "real-world"...

So, while I made 99s in highschool, persisitent As and Bs in one of the most academically challenging private schools in this part of the US (with As and Bs often being 95+ and 85+)... I find myself at a loss... Making a D on my first nursing test (I was in the bottom three) and barely making a B on my second (pretty much average).

Anyway, I don't tell you that just to brag or something but to show the contrast between then and now. While I'm not considering changing my major (far too late for that) I have wondered to myself how much personality plays into it.

MBTI has two types dealing with how one organizes one's thoughts and approaches the world. The "s-type" or "sensing type." Sensors are very focused on the real world. They are naturally structured. The "n-type" or "intuitive type" are the creative individuals who might have a room that looks like a hurricane hit it, but can paint a mural like you've never seen.

I'm the creative type... I've done professional graphic design work.. I draw... I write music.. I write poetry... sing... I spend hours on nature photography... But my organizational skills can be crap, my room is notoriously messy, and my ability to memorize these endless assessment procedures is pretty low. I've found that almost all of my peers are s-types through talking with them and just figuring out how they operate.

It dawned on me that a large part of my particular level of difficulty with nursing is probably the very way my brain is wired!

So... what are you... S-type or N-type?

My type is actually very rare. I'm an INTJ.

You can read about it here: http://www.typelogic.com/intj.html

I wonder if N-type nurses are as rare as male nurses. I'm a murse by the way :p.

Specializes in ER, IICU, PCU, PACU, EMS.

INTJ here also.

I remember taking this a while back, I was an INTJ back then too.

your type is

[color=#d000a0]intj[color=#d000a0]introverted[color=#d000a0]intuitive[color=#d000a0]thinking[color=#d000a0]judgingstrength of the preferences % [color=#d000a0]56[color=#d000a0]62[color=#d000a0]88[color=#d000a0]67

Specializes in Multiple.

I've done it twice today and varied between ENTJ and ENFJ

Specializes in Med Surg/Tele/ER.

extraverted sensing thinking judgi i have taken this before don't remember the results, so i took it again......... my type is estj

ENFJ here.

Specializes in Geriatrics, med/surg, LTC surveyor.

I am an INFJ. I guess that explains why I am currently studying to be a counselor

Specializes in Geriatrics, med/surg, LTC surveyor.

I am very frustrated with nursing at times so it makes sense that I am an INFJ.

Specializes in Geriatrics.

Interestingly enough, I am INTJ. I work LTC. I think the fit is good.

masterminds tend to be much more definite and self-confident than other rationals, having usually developed a very strong will. decisions come easily to them; in fact, they can hardly rest until they have things settled and decided. but before they decide anything, they must do the research. masterminds are highly theoretical, but they insist on looking at all available data before they embrace an idea, and they are suspicious of any statement that is based on shoddy research, or that is not checked against reality.

that explains almost everything. rofl!!!

i knew there was a reason i like staffing three buildings, working 2 jobs going to school and keeping up with allnurses at the same time. :)[color=#d000a0]

intj

[color=#d000a0]introverted[color=#d000a0]intuitive[color=#d000a0]thinking[color=#d000a0]judging strength of the preferences % [color=#d000a0]44[color=#d000a0]50[color=#d000a0]100[color=#d000a0]22

I was excited to see other INTJ's until I noticed I am INTP not J.

Specializes in Geriatrics, med/surg, LTC surveyor.

I read up on mine and it made alot of sense. Too bad I am not an actress since there seem to be alot of those with this personality type. But I cannot lie to save my life so that wouldn't work.

ENFP... hmm... we really are rare... I think there may have been 5 on this thread.

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