Pre-nursing Students, CNA's, Current Nurses.....

[Definingmyfuture]

hi,

I am currently a pre-nursing student and I really want to become a nurse, but there are areas such as emergency that I feel would be really difficult for me. I am wondering if there are any areas of the hospital or patient care that some of you are not really that comfortable with, or for pre-nursing any areas that you feel you could not work in? Emergency just terrifies the crap out of me. I have heard some people say that you get over it but it is something about kids being hurt badly that just makes me tense up,most likely because I have children. Do any of you ever feel this way?

Thanks:loveya:

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

i've been a med/surg and nursing home (geriatric) nurse all my career. if i had to work ob, peds or psych i probably have to commit suicide. i just don't have the patience to work with kids or mentally impaired people. you only need to study these areas of nursing in school in order to test general knowledge questions about them in order to get your license. once you have your license you find a job in the nursing specialty you want. you don't ever have to work in the er as a licensed nurse if you don't want to. it is a specialty area. you can read about the different specialty areas of nursing on the discover nursing website: http://www.discovernursing.com/nursing-careers. once you have your rn license you then get a job in one of these areas and get additional on-the-job training in these.