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 Getting my LVN first, the onto my RN!!!!.

MED/SURG!!!!

For someone who wants to be a nurse, I cannot handle bodily fluids other than urine and stool. Drainage and phlegm just make me gag, and once I get started, there is no stopping me!

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Specializes in Adult ICU/PICU/NICU.

LTC...at my age they would mistake me for a resident.

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Specializes in Cardiac/Med-surg/ LTC.

I picked Peds not my favorite by far.

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LTC. I can't help but stop and wonder will this me 50 years later? It's so depressing.

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

Family planning-abortion clinic, close second oncologey general unit, though hospice would be a dream is that contradictory? Sorry touch tuping eyes all fuzzy.

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

Loooooove Geriatrics and Psych. Put the two together...even better! I'm surprised how many people hate psych...or maybe I'm just a weirdo! :p

I could NEVER work in oncology. My dad, grandfather, & grandmother all died from cancer. It would just hit home for me too much.

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Specializes in Global Health Informatics, MNCH.

Not on the list but for me it would be any type of inpatient setting. Hospital/LTC/etc politics are not for me. Went into nursing with no intention of doing anything but community/public health and research.

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Specializes in LTC, Acute care.

No med-surg or pedi for me, thank you very much.

I've always wanted to work L&D, I think I have a passion for it. I can deal with LTC because that's where I've worked as an aide forever (6 years) so I'm comfortable in that environment. Plus, the elderly are just adorable and there are tons to be learned from their life experiences.:nurse:

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I picked LTC .... not really my scene i prefer to be responsible for pts i can actually care for. However if Ortho had been an option i would have chosen that. I have a distinct aversion to Ortho, in my experience they are some of the crankiest most ungrateful pts available, oh and whiney to boot. JMO.

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I have always loved to float. I had a hard time deciding. I picked renal because I wasn't even exactly sure what it meant? I guessed maybe a dialysis unit? That just sounds kind of boring watching patients get dialysis all day? But I obviously don't know much about it. (In case there are dialysis nurses out there I'm not putting down your job!)

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I can't really do LTC/ Med-Surg

stress is too much on my body. Feel like i'm going to run around like a headless chicken. too much heavy heavy lifting for my back. I was told in nursing school to go into medsurg, but i'mma try to steer clear and head off to postpartum and psych, where everyone is a bit more medically stable, a bit more happy, and a bit more insane.

:) i'll see how behavioral health goes for me

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Specializes in Trauma ICU, Peds ICU.

OB/L&D

Was treated poorly (by RNs, not patients) during my maternity rotation in school, and haven't much reason to believe I'd be any more welcome in that setting now.

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