Where would your least favorite area to work be?

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  1. Least favorite area to work in........

    • 32
      ER
    • 142
      psych
    • 56
      OB/L&D
    • 72
      Med-surg
    • 19
      OR
    • 12
      UNIT
    • 9
      Cardiac cath lab/GI Lab etc (special procedures
    • 170
      LTC
    • 37
      Home Health
    • 30
      Oncology
    • 57
      Pediatrics
    • 22
      Renal
    • 39
      Rehab

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Specializes in Geri, psych, TCU, neuro--AKA LTC.

Not too surprising tho that the people that don't like psych also don't like LTC. There's a ton of psych in LTC- hmmm, I'm even rounding with the psychiatrist tomorrow.......

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Give me pleasantly psychotic anyday. I just love them.

The lady following around a hallucinatory cat that keep changing colors-- doesn't get much better than that.

Unless it's the Guernsey cows trying to eat their way in to her room-- not distressed in the least. :lol2:

If the psychosis is distressing, they need meds plain and simple. It's a quality of life issue.

Specializes in Geri, psych, TCU, neuro--AKA LTC.
L & D yuck, can't handle crotch watch. ewwwww.

Not a fiber in my being that wants to deliver babies-- and all the staff I work with that have been pregnant or are currently pregnant know that about me.

Specializes in behavioral health.

ICU. I wanted to cry nearly everyday in that rotation. Way too many lines, bags, vents etc to be connected to a human being. I got tangled in the equipment and all my patients were vented and I could not communicate with them even though I could visually watch them suffering. Hospice, cancer, and sick children depresses the hell out of me..but somehow psych is different. I suppose it all depends upon comfort levels and perception of competency and effectiveness.

I do not like Psych, but I think that the theory is very interesting.

Specializes in Geriatrics, rehabillitation.

I'd have to go with Psych. At first I thought I wouldn't like LTC, but after having the majority of our clinicals in those kinds of facilities, and now having just started at one, I love it! I don't think I'll work there for forever, but it's a good start for me.

I want to someday work in either Pediatrics, or OB.

I despise psych...mostly 'cause my mom is a headshrink, and I spent the greater amount of my early childhood on up through college having to endure her 'clients' coming first. You know, getting called @ 2330 'cause one of her whackball kids just chugged a bottle of nair in the middle of a convenience store (true story...actually happened...). Finding my pet mice killed and jewelry stolen when she had some of her 'clients' over at our house for group activities (she specializes in juvenile sexual predators and juvenile sociopaths...nice, huh?)...neat stuff like that.

So, needless to say, I loathe and detest psych with every fiber of my being, and it was nothing short of torture for me to get through my psych rotation in nsg school. Ironically, I have inherited a sort of 'sixth sense' when it comes to psych crap. I do quite well with the stillbirth patients that most people can't handle.

Anyhoo, I hate psych because my whole life has been one big psych rotation/class, and have had my fill. All you psych nurses out there...my hat off to ya...couldn't/wouldn't do your job in a million years!!

whoa that is quite the story and self examination. Sounds like you need therapy to recover from MOM. I feel that the best psych people have some real issues in their lives and they have little ability to look inward. Sorry, I think I will catch it for that comment.

I worked in juvenile detention for several years and I found I liked the challenge of teenagers. I never had a moment of trouble with any of them and some are seriously ill. I just told them I was a nurse there to help them and I was not a judge or police officer. Some had committed serious crimes such as sexual abuse but I was able to separate the charge from the teenager and act as a kind professional nurse.

I enjoy Psych/ED. My definite no list is LTC/OB/MS.

recently i was pulled to the er holding area. basically its like walking into 4 new admits

first thing in the morning....only it lasts for 12 hours.

labor and delivery no way jose.......listening to women screaming 32 hours a week ....no thanks. :bugeyes:

Specializes in LTC.

L&D... it's just not for me (or maybe i am just too young and really dont like dealing with that stuff!);)

it's not on the list, but respiratory is what I would hate. People not being able to breathe kinda scares me. Also I have a really hard time looking after COPD patients. i don't like traccys and sputum. I dislike it when we get resp patient's on my ward so couldn't work on a whole ward full of them.

Specializes in ER, ICU, Telemetry, Home Health..

:banghead:ICU,

I worked there for five months and hate it. The patient lying there for four months, not getting better, or worse, every day a different hole, a different machine, a rotorest bed and so many machines to deal, so many lines and every single dot in the paperwork has to be in the same exact place and it has to be done this way not that way and at this time and not this other, and very task oriented, no support whatsoever form other disciplines, it was a really bad experience. It did killed me to see every day was the same, for months until the patient gets moved, dies or something happen, I was used to ER environment, something new, use the nursing process to the fullest extent.

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