What field of nursing would you NEVER consider working?

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I thought this might be interesting to find out. Please include a reason, be it a bad clinical experience as a student, fear, lack of excitement, too chaotic, etc.

For me it would have to be the NICU. Don't get me wrong, I love babies. My problem would come the first time I saw an addict come to see her baby. I would lose my professionalism instantly. So I'm thinking it best to stay away from such a situation.

Let me list the ways.....

Surgery/Surgical - inflicting pain, horrible docs, holes in people.

OB - exploding yelling mums.

Peds - just too painful

AIDS - too terrified.

I am always interested in the psychological side, although I don't seem to like psych nursing somehow. So I like chronic illnesses, the dying and now I am in LTC... can't get more chronic than that, I suppose.

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Specializes in Inpatient Acute Rehab.

Pulmonology--- Copd patients and patients with pneumonia are my least favorite patients

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NICU!

Those 2 lb kids look like skined squirrles. When I did my NICU rotation I could not bring myself to even touch them. Terrified I would damage them.

I would also avoid long term care, and would not want to do more med/surg I had a year of that and it was plenty. I love ER and psych though. There is no accounting for tastes.

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Spinal cord injuries. It just breaks my heart.

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Specializes in NICU.
Spinal cord injuries. It just breaks my heart.

If you would have asked me 5 years ago, I would have said probably the same thing! However, my babysitter's husband is paralyzed (sp? - sorry) from a spinal cord injury and I just love him to pieces! He used to ride bulls and break horses and do heavy duty ranch work, a bail of hay fell on him just right a couple of years ago and that was the end of it all for him - now he is in a wheel-chair. However, the nurses that come to visit him and help him are incredible and he really cherishes them. Although this would not be a choice area for me, I could handle it - patients like him make it worth it, I'm sure. His whole family is so greatful for the care he receives and he really has a close bond with everybody around him. Isn't it funny how the people in our lives tend to really sway our decisions? Good thing too, it would be awful if everybody liked the same thing. :)

I really won't respond to one area of this or the other since I am just about to become a pre-nursing student - I don't know near enough to make a truly informed decision at this point. My heart is set on NICU at the moment, but I'm sure that is subject to change. I am a very caring and compassionate person and I think I could handle critically ill babies and even the dying part - being there for the whole family as well as the baby. I am scared at the idea of working with peds, but that's because I have a toddler and I don't think I could handle dealing with those sweet, innocent little kids if they were hurting or terminally ill. Who knows though - not me, for sure! :D OR really intrigues me. I assume that I wouldn't like anything LTC or working with elderly pts, but that is just because I am an eligibility technician and I form waaaaaay too close a bond with my nursing home clients - can't imagine I could handle LTC at all - too much attachment. Isn't it silly how that bothers me, but the idea of attachment to the micro-preemies and such doesn't bother me? Bizarre, I know.

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It is great that we all have different places we like and don't like. I hate burns but I see some who like working there. I see some who hate LTC and Home health. I love both. I hate working with teenagers but don't mind working with cardiac and cranky patients. In fact I am really good with them.. I love to make them laugh and then watch them realize they did it.

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Specializes in LTC, med-surg, critial care.

OB - I don't do pregnant women or babies. When we did OB in school I refused to watch a lady partsl delivery (the video was enough, thanks). When asked I was the only female in our class who did not want to spend an extra week on that floor.

OR - When I see that completely naked patient on laying there I have to fight the urge to throw something on them. Plus, I like talking to my patients.

Prison - The pay is outstanding. The retirement is great. It still doesn't make up for the fact that you kinda have to be on guard at all times. We toured a facility for school and I couldn't believe that the nurses walked alone in the dorm style buildings (no cells, no doors seperating them from you). I like holding hands with my patients (when I actually have the time!), you can't do that in there.

Right now I work LTC, I love it. I have a lot of demetia patients but more often then not they make me laugh. Even if I have a wild one who's trying to hit me an octagenarian tends to be slower and easier to dodge :p I also like the eigh hour shifts that allow me to go to school during the day and work at night.

After I finish RN school (once I finish micro I can apply to the bridge program!) I'll probably go to med/surg. I like the variety.

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Right now i would have to say OR....i can not stand wearing a gown and mask and gloves....i always feel like i am going to pass out whenever i do clinicals in the OR.

Definately agree with you on that one. When i was in clinicals and had to watch procedures in the OR i almost passed out more than once. I had to leave the room and watch from behind the glass. And the masks...can't stand wearing one for longer than 1 or 2 minutes at a time, they make me feel like i can't breathe.......

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Psych! My own life is full of enough craziness, thank you very much! :uhoh3:

Since I've had my own kid, I'm thinking I won't be too keen on Pediatrics, either, because I always want to take the little neglected/abused ones home, and I can't distance myself from that feeling since I had my daughter. Same thing applies to dogs, cats, hamsters......it's a good thing my husband is the voice of reason, or I'd have my own personal zoo. Oh wait, I already do......

Hospice or Oncology are ones I'm going to avoid, too. I don't have enough faith to deal with all of the dying. I surely admire those of you who can do these important jobs. :)

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Psych! My own life is full of enough craziness, thank you very much! :uhoh3:

Since I've had my own kid, I'm thinking I won't be too keen on Pediatrics, either, because I always want to take the little neglected/abused ones home, and I can't distance myself from that feeling since I had my daughter. Same thing applies to dogs, cats, hamsters......it's a good thing my husband is the voice of reason, or I'd have my own personal zoo. Oh wait, I already do......

Hospice or Oncology are ones I'm going to avoid, too. I don't have enough faith to deal with all of the dying. I surely admire those of you who can do these important jobs. :)

I know what you mean but ALLnursing jobs are important. :p I also can't work peds

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I think I will avoid LTC! I had the chance to work at to different facilaties during my CNA clinicals and as much as I I loved my patients its just not a place I want to go back to! I think that I want to go towards pediatrics, but we will see once I have to do my clinicals!

how'd u get that little dancing person on there?

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how'd u get that little dancing person on there?

The little dancing dude is one of the smilies...if you click [More] in the smilies box when you are posting, it brings up another page of smilies. The little dancing dude is about 10 smilies down on the left side. I hope that made sense.

The one I wanted to use here did not work, so :Crash:

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