I'm volunteering right now at a Hospital Gift Shop and upgrading my courses in night school to start a college program (hopefully) for practical nursing
One of the hospital interns who talks to me at the shop once in a while said "can I give you advice? Don't work at the hospital"
I said that I wanted to go into nursing with time..
So he said that with "my personality" I could be only in delivery
So my question for you is- what's a "nurse" personality?
The intern I think just had a difficult day at the hospital and he was trying to help because he was joking about not being able to remember your own name at the end of the day at work
But I was wondering why didn't I have the personality to be a nurse in his opinion.. I guess it depends on what is it that you believe that you want to do.. but I thought maybe you'll have advice as to how patients and doctors treat nurses in general so that I have just a clearer picture
"Unless you're tough and have thick skin" because I think that's what he meant
Anyway thank you. And the reason why I wanted to start a practical program is just because it's shorter.. I'm waiting to finish and be able to move out
I'll probably continue to registered nursing once I'll be able to work somewhere
funny because iread an article in the new yorker magazine the other day. it was about personality tests! i guess over half the people who take the meyers-briggs and get typed as one thing one day retake it the next day and get a different result. i guess that is the popular test for companies to use. i took it years and years ago and the person who administered it said people change what they are (to the test) every so often.
I also scored highest in psychiatry - probably due to the communication element. My 2nd highest was pediatrics, which surprised me a bit.
As a side note, I have taken the Myers-Briggs assessment (and similar) several times and have always scored the same. (ENFP with the F being borderline T) That makes me an extroverted, intuitive, feeling but also thinking, perceiving type.
I'm an ENFP, as well....... tenderly referred to by my Psychology Professor as a "cream puff" personality type. She was an ENTJ.... no wonder she hated me.
I just did the Myer-Briggs online test and it was remarkably close to the bone! I think those that take the test one day then take it the next must be subject to "trying to get the right answer". I answered truthfully (with thought) and was amazed at how close the analysis was.
I worked for a cardiologist who on my yearly evaluation told me altho I was smart, effective, etc, he felt I had a 'bit too much of a mouth' to be a nurse. I laughed at him outright...and told him IMO we don't need creampuffs in nursing, we need more extroverts and plain speaking types. what he defined as 'mouthy'.
He actually agreed with me in private. Funny how docs are STILL trying to control us...altho long ago nursing evolved into our own profession, no longer handmaiden creations of medicine like the bad old days.
A wise poster here once said if nurses don't define their own profession, everybody else will be happy to do it for them. I completely agree. :)
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Thank you guys for the replies
The intern I think just had a difficult day at the hospital and he was trying to help because he was joking about not being able to remember your own name at the end of the day at work
But I was wondering why didn't I have the personality to be a nurse in his opinion.. I guess it depends on what is it that you believe that you want to do.. but I thought maybe you'll have advice as to how patients and doctors treat nurses in general so that I have just a clearer picture
"Unless you're tough and have thick skin" because I think that's what he meant
Anyway thank you. And the reason why I wanted to start a practical program is just because it's shorter.. I'm waiting to finish and be able to move out
I'll probably continue to registered nursing once I'll be able to work somewhere