What field of nursing would you NEVER consider working?

JennInColumbus · Nov 20, 2003

My mom runs a hospice in TN (she is an RN) but I don't think I could ever do what she does. I have the utmost respect for those who can do what she does, but it isn't for me.

I'm just a student though, so I reserve the right to change my mind! :)

Jenn

911fltrn · Nov 20, 2003

O.B. is not for me. Also I would never work for an insurance company! Most of what i see from them is screwing patients! Like transfers to acute facilities you wouldnt send your pet to!

Home Health Columnist / Guide · Nov 20, 2003

Originally posted by Nurse Ratched

Also OB/peds - I ain't birthin' no babies and I will care for kids but wouldn't be able to handle the stressed-out parents. It's bad enough when the "kids" are college students .

AMEN!!

Couldn't agree more.

Chttynurs · Nov 20, 2003

Bless all the psych nurses out there!! I don't know how you do it!! I'm ashamed to admit it, but I just don't have the patience to deal with people's major psych issues! I don't think I could do pediatrics either. I can't stand seeing a kids sick, just breaks my heart. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

NursingStudent0 · Nov 20, 2003

Med-Surg! I can't stand medical floors. My heart is devoted to OB, Nursery, Pediatrics, or NICU. I'm a baby/Mommy person NOT an adult person.

HazeK · Nov 20, 2003

can't handle Peds nursing!

can't do treatments that hurt, etc on kids!

haze

mother/babyRN, RN · Nov 20, 2003

Management....That REALLY scares me!

LINUS · Nov 23, 2003

Med/Surg... I absolutely hate it! I'm a new grad, and I've only been doing it for five months, but that's five months of pure hell. I can't stand it. I've taken up smoking just for the mere fact that nothing else would calm my nerves before I go to work. I never wanted to work there in the first place, but the teachers at my school said it was the best place to start. Well, I started there, and it's making me rethink the whole nursing profession... I just took a job in mother/baby and will be starting in December. I hope I like it better!!

Dixen81 · Nov 23, 2003

Originally posted by chad75
LTC = Just not my thing, my personal beliefs are against things like feeding tubes for 90 year olds and other such devices to keep someones body alive why their mind is barely there. The mind starts letting go, but in western society we can't accept the fact that death is just as natural as life so we do everything possible to keep grandma's "BODY" alive. While I run in to that aspect in my current field its not as prevailant as it is in nursing homes.

For that very reason I recently told my husband that when I get old and things start shutting down, just let nature take it's course. I don't want to "exist."

Dixen81 · Nov 23, 2003

Originally posted by sanakruz
A Pediatric burn unit on Christmas eve.

That would break my heart.

Dixen81 · Nov 23, 2003

Originally posted by Erin RN
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...
Erin

ROTFLMAO!!! :roll

What did you do? I would have puked! :chuckle

lmd32 · Nov 23, 2003

Great thread! For me, the only never is home health, just because I had some awful experiences. I've been attacked by a dog (the sweet LOL said "please let the dog in" so I did. I had to chase him out with a broom) and also found myself in more than one unsafe situation due to isolated conditions and a lack of back up. I had some really good experiences as well but I wouldn't go there again.

For now, I'm saying "no psych". I won't say I'd never do it again but that's been 90% of my work history for the last 25 years, first as an LPN and then as a psychologist. I'm really burned out. And thoroughly ready for medsurg or something.