I feel like I made a mistake with nursing. Did anyone hate med surg but love other floors?

[missSB]

Hello everyone. I'm in my first year of nursing school, so I'm pretty early on, but I would really appreciate your help.

Forever I was deciding between medical school and nursing school. I ended up going with nursing for various reasons. I just finished my medical surgical clinicals and I hated them! I feel so lost now because I thought for sure nursing was for me but now I don't know.

My dad is a physician and my mom is a nurse so I thought I had a pretty good idea of what I was getting myself into. I feel like the medical field is more fitting for me but I just don't want to admit it to myself because my heart was set on nursing.

So my question is... did anyone hate med surg but love ICU or ED or something else? Anyone love med surg but hate everything else? How do floors differ job wise?

I havent done any other clinicals so I'm praying I find my match somewhere else.

Any advice? Thanks everyone!

[cleback]

Why did you hate the clinical? What makes you feel medicine is the better fit?

I hated all my clinical except for my preceptorship in a rural ICU. It had nothing to do about nursing or med/surg per se, but all about meshing my learning style with the course structure and preceptor.

I also agree that working is ENTIRELY different than school. In school, I loved psych and thought that would be my specialty. I ended up working there for only 1.5 years before disliking it. In short, it will help you to tease out your reaction a bit more, preferably with people who may already know you.