Personality Type and 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 Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
your type is

[color=#d000a0]infj[color=#d000a0]introverted[color=#d000a0]intuitive[color=#d000a0]feeling[color=#d000a0]judgingstrength of the preferences % [color=#d000a0]56[color=#d000a0]38[color=#d000a0]12[color=#d000a0]56

yeah, i'm that one!:wink2:

your type is

[color=#d000a0]esfj[color=#d000a0]extroverted[color=#d000a0]sensing[color=#d000a0]feeling[color=#d000a0]judgingstrength of the preferences % [color=#d000a0]33[color=#d000a0]38[color=#d000a0]50[color=#d000a0]11

Specializes in Certified Diabetes Educator.

I am INFJ. How refreshing to know that I'm in good company here. There are times that I think that nursing isn't a good match for me, but I can't seem to get away from it. I come back to it time and time again. I'm unhappy and frustrated with it, and miserable without it. Perhaps it is those "magic" moments here and there that make it all worth it.

Hi Mesomorph,

I did not go into nursing until my mid 30s, but I find the older I get, the more down to earth I become - INFX. I don't think some of us integrate our shadow or weaker functions until we get a little older. I still have to work very hard at being present and grounded, something the stronger S types may not have much difficulty doing. Because of this, I do have a tendency to obsess and go over and over procedures, i.e., I overcompensate. My strengths do tend to be more towards being in tune with the emotional/psychic/spiritual functioning of others.

You might try doing a little EFT, http://www.emofree.com. If you are very sensitive, as I am, your lack of groundedness could be a response to trauma from an earlier point in your life. Best of luck to you.

[color=#3388dd]yay, i'm infp :jester:

Specializes in ortho/neuro.

enfj here. 1 38 38 11. very interesting on the comment (i'm sorry i think it was back on page two of this thread...i've read a lot of comments inbetween:wink2:) about having intuition about other peoples feelings etc. my husband and kids keep telling me i'm psychic because i know what they are thinking or feeling quite frequently lol but that's a whole other topic!

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Infp

Specializes in med surg.

I am an INFJ. After I took the test and read some of the other posts, I see that a lot of other people are, too...

Specializes in Telemetry.

your type is

[color=#d000a0]infp

[color=#d000a0]introverted

[color=#d000a0]intuitive

[color=#d000a0]feeling

[color=#d000a0]perceiving

with reading the analysis it is dead-on!

Specializes in Telemetry/Cardiac Floor.

I'm an ENFJ.......What Dept. do you ENFJs work in??????

Specializes in OR.
ENFP,

And 20 plus years in nursing- but I know I am an odditiy...

Hello, fellow ENFP! Not too many of us here!
Specializes in Critical Care, Med-Surg- Risk Mgmt.

I'm an EMFJ too and work in ICU- is that right? Should I go into teaching?

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