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.

Respiratory!! When I was in school I was cleaning a trach of a guy with lung CA a big chunk flew out and hit me the chest...that was it...sputum is the one yuckie I don't so too well with. Would rather be pucked, pooped, biled or bled on!!

Erin

I could not work in procurement for organ donation. There's no way I could pressure a family who is in the midst of dealing with the loss of a loved one to donate that person's organs.

I know others will post how organ donation is so wonderful...that it makes something good out of a tragedy...that it can help ease the pain of loss, etc. I just don't see it that way; never have.

Psych and OB/Peds - - I'm not that interested in either nor do I have the patience.

I have to go for OR. Hated student rotation... hated the mask... and now that I've had over 30 years of nursing experience, I don't like surgeons, and I don't particularly like OR nurses either. They are a little clique. "I can do what you do, but you can't do what I do." Just an ATTITUDE, you know??

Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.

Oncology... HAS to be a better way to cure cancer patients than the slash and burn method... Not to put down any nurses who are working in oncology... just believe our present technology is woefully lacking and downright barbaric. (Chemotherapy today is like the lobotomies of 50 years ago).:o

I could never be a flight nurse.combining the stress of flying in a helicopter with the stress of a trauma pt,NO WAY... don't know how they do it!!!!!

Yay...my lil ole thread lives on. I love the different opinions, especially since a bunch of people have listed psych and of course that is my love.

Specializes in ED staff.

I never had any trouble in nursing school (with grades) until I got to psych, it almost cost me my nursing career. I am not unsympathetic to psych patients, I just lose my patience with them and it's not fair for me to take care of someone like that. I see enough of them in the ED, for some reason they make me very nervous. Maybe it's a lil too close to home, lol.

I don't think I could do homehealth either, control freak that I am, I prefer an environment that I like to think of as safe. I really admire nurses who can do either of these jobs. I think all nurses are special people, but some are more special than others.

I won't do psych...nope, nada, not this girl, not even geri-psych. Delusional people make me crazy. I just want to slap them and say get a grip. Same with OB...Stop that darn screaming! I've done natural child birth and it doesn't hurt that bad.

Peds on the other hand is wonderful (especially with young kids), because some times they do smile and sometimes they do get better and they almost always forgive you when you have to hurt them and will hug you back.

Originally posted by TiddlDwink

I have to go for OR. Hated student rotation... hated the mask... and now that I've had over 30 years of nursing experience, I don't like surgeons, and I don't particularly like OR nurses either. They are a little clique. "I can do what you do, but you can't do what I do." Just an ATTITUDE, you know??

Actually, I work in the OR as a new grad. It is very stressful at times and there are no "cliques" where I work; teamwork is one of our core values. But I think it's kinda funny when you say that OR nurses can do what floor nurses do, cause I sure as heck can't do what a floor nurse does- it freaks me out to think of being a floor nurse with all those pts; that's why I went straight to the OR; only one patient at a time. And besides most of the time the pts. do get better after surgery. And I love the surgeons; they treat you with respect (most of them) and some love to teach. And as for that, I have no ATTITUDE and I hope to think you don't either.

Specializes in Obstetrics, M/S, Psych.

No ICU for me. Cardiac in general has no draw for me and kind of makes me anxious.:p I don't really like taking care of sick/dying people all the time.

OB and psych are my homes. Everything peaks, then works itself out in the end in both specialties plus usually the patient lives.

Why do some many nurses and other people think that OR nurses stand in one position the whole day. They don't. Most of the scrub nurses I know are LPN's. They do alot of standing by the patient but remember the doctor is standing there also. Registered nurses are the circulating nurses and they move around the operating room, they also sit during part of the operation and chart. RN's also work in the recovery room or the pre-op section. An RN will scrub in on occasion but it doesn't happen that often. I like what I have seen of OR. It's a close knit group with everyone looking out for each other. You may run across an arrogant doctor but I've seen plenty of arrogant doctors on the floor. Most of the surgeons I know are polite to the nurses.

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