OB is DEFINATELY my thing

~PedsRN~, BSN, RN · Dec 14, 2011

I always found something new and interesting in all of my classes. :) Each patient brought something new to the table, and a new learning experience.

Congrats on finding your "niche". I hated OB. Way too many healthy people, and lady partss. LOL!

FunkyMama1733 · Dec 14, 2011

I for one am with ya - to a degree. I actually went to nursing school so that I could eventually become a midwife (I worked as a doula for 5+ years). But, right around the time I enrolled in nursing school, I got burned out on birth. But, I love working with pregnant Mom's, women's health, sexual education, newborn's.....so I am not sure exactly where I am going - but that crowd speaks loud and clear to me. So we'll see!

Awesome that you found your niche. And I 100% agree with you that all the other areas seem so uninteresting. I have, however, found other areas that I would also enjoy working with (such as Oncology and Endocrine). I so wish that you could kind of tailor the program to what you wanted to do, but that would obviously greatly limit you if you ever changed your mind. My program, in my opinion, focuses way to much on the specialty part of all the different areas, and not on the general 'care and keeping' of those patients. For example - with OB, we didn't spend nearly as much time on the normal physiological process, etc, as we did on how to read a fetal monitor strip. We spent three days. THREE DAYS on fetal monitoring. The only people who need to know that much about fetal monitoring are going to be people working in OB and obviously get additional training in that. Blah.

Sorry for the ramble, but I'm with ya!

BellasMommyOBRN · Dec 14, 2011

I always thought I was going to end up as an intensive care nurse of some kind....until I took OB :) Now as you can see from my name, thats what I'm doing! :)

whichone'spink, BSN, RN · Dec 15, 2011

I've become very interested in the NICU this semester. I am almost tempted to change my career path.

Anne36, LPN · Dec 15, 2011

I just completed OB as well and got a score probably the same as you. I was only missing 2 points the entire course. Good for you, if you have discovered your niche. I am moving on, OB is not for me. We were fortunate that we got to spend a day in the NICU. What did you enjoy more, Postpartum or Labor and Delivery?

allnurses Guide · Dec 15, 2011

It is great you have found an interest and a passion. Given though how the current economy is and how hard it is to find an opening in L&D or OB, it may help you to focus on the fact that you may very well have to start in an area you are less enthusiastic about. Which means all those other less exciting topics will be very important to your prospects. Also approach them from the knowledge that many of those other disease conditions exist in pregnant women too.

Clovery · Dec 15, 2011

I just finished my OB/Peds semester and I have to say I liked OB much more than I thought I would. I was fairly certain that I would do well in OB, just having been through a pregnancy and delivery in the same hospital that we did our clinicals. Plus I was a OCD googler throughout the pregnancy so I was well aware of every little thing that could possibly go wrong. But in my pregnancy internet research I came across so many blogs, forums, etc. where pregnant women were obsessed with things like birth plans, using erroneous internet information to decide which treatments they wanted, refusing everything for the newborn like the eye ointment and vitamin K shot. So I went into OB thinking I'd be dealing with these women who were hyper obsessed with getting things done THEIR WAY. Apparently people plan their deliveries like they plan weddings now. I was afraid I'd be messing up their "dream birth" by offering Dad a ginger ale at the wrong time during the labor.

It wasn't like that at all! Everyone was so nice and easygoing and happy to have me around. Plus I didn't come home feeling like a biological weapon because I was around c. dif and MRSA all night long. No stripping in the garage and running to the shower! OB is definitely an area I'm interested in pursuing now. Before I started nursing school, I thought psych would be my thing. I do that rotation starting in January, so I guess we'll see! I also really like geriatrics because the older folks are generally friendly, appreciative, and easy to talk to. I'm glad you found your calling!