I'm not sure how to start this off without sounding so freaking arrogant or something so I do apologize if I come off in a way that sounds like I think I'm too good or better than others - I do not.
I get bored very easily, and need to be challenged and need to keep challenging myself. I am that "high IQ" person. I am that person who was told by all the nurses and teachers who get to know me that "you are too smart". When I told one of my teachers I was accepted in an internship on a medical-surgical floor she scowled and I asked "what is that not good?" and she said "someone with your IQ should be in a more challenging area". Now that I'm finished with my internship, I think that it had been good for me. I learned how to manage my time. But still, it was only when I had done everything the nurse would do (under supervision) of 6 patients plus one admission and one discharge and 2 very difficult patients that I really was excited by the experience, of constant going from one task to another, and felt challenged where I had to make "nursing judgements". (in quotes because I am not a nurse yet).
I was sure that I would go into psychiatric NP. Then I wondered if I'd get bored. And I also wondered if that's what I should do because I did like the patient population on the medical surgical floor so much (I liked the variety)
So I have an interview for a residency program where I am to tell them the area that I would like to specialize in. They set it up so that I would be on that unit for 6 months, and then another 6 months would be experiencing different areas, while in the residency.
I also want to apply to graduate schools, and can't decide what program.
I'm sure there are a lot out there like me! Can you tell me what specialty you are happy working in please?
TIA