Polling our male nurses: What area of nursing are you currently in right now?

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  1. As a man in Nursing, I primarily work in the area of.....

    • 377
      Emergency Room
    • 81
      Perioperative
    • 439
      MICU/SICU/CCU
    • 117
      Pediatics/PICU/NICU
    • 33
      Physical rehab
    • 51
      Medical
    • 188
      Med Surg
    • 128
      Psychiatry/Chemical Dependency/Detox
    • 23
      L & D/Maternity
    • 42
      Oncology
    • 118
      Long Term Care/Geriatrics
    • 18
      Hospice
    • 49
      Management
    • 5
      Independent Practice
    • 29
      Education
    • 5
      Sales/Pharmaceuticals
    • 4
      Nursing Law
    • 29
      Home Health Care
    • 6
      Case Management
    • 19
      Outpatient/Physician Office
    • 13
      Research
    • 185
      Other
    • 46
      Transport/Flight Nursing

2,005 members have participated

Thought this would give us all a nice visual once folks place their vote.

Currently, I am in Ortho-Neuro Med Surg.

Also, I have placed a similar poll in our Male Nursing Student Forum. That poll can be viewed here:

https://allnurses.com/forums/f213/poll-male-nursing-school-my-goal-desire-work-area-155146.html

Good comparison threads when viewed together.

Specializes in NICU, Pediatric Urgent Care.

NICU & Well Baby nursery here - we rotate to stay up on our skills for both areas.

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Specializes in ED, pre-hospital medicine and CCT.

CEN - Paramedic here. I don't think I would like it anywhere but ER.

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Specializes in Emergency.

Start in the ER in 2 weeks. Been a ski patroller and EMT-B for over 10 years, think I'll be at home in emergency.

Interviewed on a cardiac floor, the NM looked at my resume and said, "Why are you here? This has emergency written all over it." Needless to say, I didn't get a job offer.

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Specializes in Informatics, critical care, research.

I'm surprised informatics wasn't listed as a category.

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Replacement Pool (ER/ICU and Med/Surg) for me.

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Specializes in ICU.

Starting in MICCU on Aug 4th. My hospital combines Medical and cadiac ICU together (MICCU). I am excited and I am eager to learn. I would have preferred to be in SICU, but for now I'll be in MICCU for 6-12 months and after I'll try to transfer to SICU! I think that SICU is more "exciting"...

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Psych...............

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Geez, Louise!

First job out the gate was in Trauma/Burn, and I've worked ICU, ED, MedSurg, Mgt, Admin & Travel... so where DO I work?

Still trying to figure that one out! *LOL*

I do desire to continue through with MSN, perhaps 2x in Admin & CRNA, maybe even a FNP cert.

Just thinking, you know.

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Specializes in ICU, ER (ED), CCU, PCU, CVICU, CCL.

Cardiac cath lab last 2 years. I returned to this lab were I worked 9 years ago. I worked almost exclusively ICU's of some type, CCU, SICU, CVICU. It's always been my observation that males are more tech comfortable and lean toward those areas.

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I start Nursing School next year. Right now I'm a unit Secretary in the CCU, and that's where I plan to stay.

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Specializes in Elderly Rehab.

I'm in Elderly Rehabilitation, working in it that is:chuckle

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Emergency, PACU, & Home Health...nice mix huh!

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