Personality Type and Nursing

Nurses General Nursing

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If you don't want to read it all that's fine. Just take this test and post your four letters (the preference % isn't necessary but you can if you want) or just post your type if you already know it: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

You can read about your type here afterward. It's actually very fascinating stuff: http://www.typelogic.com/

I was just thinking about how much I'm struggling with nursing whereas before I've succeeded in every academic endeavor in which I invest my time and efforts. I operate from a very internal locus of control, so I'm not blaming my hardship on my personality type... but Nursing is inherently very structured... systematic... "real-world"...

So, while I made 99s in highschool, persisitent As and Bs in one of the most academically challenging private schools in this part of the US (with As and Bs often being 95+ and 85+)... I find myself at a loss... Making a D on my first nursing test (I was in the bottom three) and barely making a B on my second (pretty much average).

Anyway, I don't tell you that just to brag or something but to show the contrast between then and now. While I'm not considering changing my major (far too late for that) I have wondered to myself how much personality plays into it.

MBTI has two types dealing with how one organizes one's thoughts and approaches the world. The "s-type" or "sensing type." Sensors are very focused on the real world. They are naturally structured. The "n-type" or "intuitive type" are the creative individuals who might have a room that looks like a hurricane hit it, but can paint a mural like you've never seen.

I'm the creative type... I've done professional graphic design work.. I draw... I write music.. I write poetry... sing... I spend hours on nature photography... But my organizational skills can be crap, my room is notoriously messy, and my ability to memorize these endless assessment procedures is pretty low. I've found that almost all of my peers are s-types through talking with them and just figuring out how they operate.

It dawned on me that a large part of my particular level of difficulty with nursing is probably the very way my brain is wired!

So... what are you... S-type or N-type?

My type is actually very rare. I'm an INTJ.

You can read about it here: http://www.typelogic.com/intj.html

I wonder if N-type nurses are as rare as male nurses. I'm a murse by the way :p.

Specializes in cardiac, ortho, med-surg.

enfj, idealist teacher.....this was so neat! i'm gonna make my husband do it too and then take the marriage test!:chuckle

Specializes in LTC.

INFP (currently an LVN student)

Specializes in Travel Nursing, ICU, tele, etc.
just came across this thread, looks like i'm an [color=olive]isfj (33, 1, 50, 56). now if i could just be an isfj who can get this caffeine out of my system and get to sleep! :uhoh3:

hey asherah,

why don't you restart this thread with the links and add a poll to it, so that people can post their personality type on the poll when they find out what it is. perhaps the moderators could help you fit 16 different categories for the personality types because i don't think the standard polls hold that many responses. but i bet they could modify it for this fascinating subject!!

what do you think?

i sent a pm to siri about this to see if we could add a poll to the beginning of this thread. will let you know!

Specializes in Geriatrics, Med-Surg..

I have taken this twice and both times I was an INFJ.

Enfp.

Specializes in Operating Room.
Enfp.

Ha-me too. Some of the descriptions were right on the money!

I'm an ISTJ

Ha-me too. Some of the descriptions were right on the money!

Oh, yeah!

infp here, student. what's the most fulfilling speacialty for an infp?

i'd appreciate your response. thanks

your type is

[color=#d000a0]infp[color=#d000a0]introverted[color=#d000a0]intuitive[color=#d000a0]feeling[color=#d000a0]perceivingstrength of the preferences % [color=#d000a0]44[color=#d000a0]38[color=#d000a0]62[color=#d000a0]56

qualitative analysis of your type formula

you are:

  • moderately expressed introvert
  • moderately expressed intuitive personality
  • distinctively expressed feeling personality
  • moderately expressed perceiving personality

i've taken this test several times, allways get the same type. the first time i read it i thought, "wow, that's me!"

Specializes in ub-Acute/LTC, Home Health, L&D, Peds.

I am INFJ. This is the first time I have taken this test and I found the results interesting and very much true to who I am.

i am isfp:78/50/38/11

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