What is your most and least favourite area/specialty of nursing and why?

Emergent, RN · Sep 1, 2015

Most favorite: Part time ER RN in outdoor oriented community, where coworkers give you fishing tips and advise on snowboarding gear. (My new gig)

Least favorite: Drama filled workplace with entrenched cliques, and backstabbing, fire breathing demons, who are Satan's spawn...

Jm0136 · Sep 1, 2015

Most favorite is med surg. Controlled environment. Mostly appreciative patients who are really sick. Least favorite is ER. Chaos. No lunch breaks. Some patients can be rude and belligerent. But who wouldn't be when they are sick first walking into a hospital! Hats off to all ER nurses!

Pangea Reunited, ASN, RN · Sep 1, 2015

I actually like med/surg, although I would like to try psych at some point. You will never find me in labor and delivery. I'm not even sure I want to go there to have my baby, but I guess I'll cope.

Stitch3296 · Sep 1, 2015

Can only speak to clinical rotation...but I wasn't a huge fan of endoscopy, felt very "business" like. And not as much patient care or interaction.

OrganizedChaos, LVN · Sep 1, 2015

I love corrections! The excitement, the bars & the fact that I can talk back to the inmates. Hahah. No but it really is fun.

My least favorite is LTC. After the many jobs I had in LTC I have never worked in one I even liked a little. It's not that I hate geriatrics, I just don't like how nursing homes are run.

Anna Flaxis, BSN, RN · Sep 1, 2015

Favorite: ER! I thrive on the chaos. Plus I don't like having the same patients the whole shift. Two hours is plenty of time to get to know someone. :-)

Least favorite: Inpatient unit. Too much routine, not enough help, too many ADLs and PO meds. If I never have to crush another med and put it in apple sauce, I'll die a happy nurse.

Rocknurse, MSN, APRN, NP · Sep 1, 2015

Favorite: ICU...the most intensive, preferably hi-tech area I can find...intubated, sedated, paralyzed patients on multiple drips, IABP, therapeutic hypothermia, CRRT...you name it, I love it. And the OR too. Least favorite: School nurse or Mother and Baby Unit. And home health. I literally couldn't last a day in that environment.

SmilingBluEyes · Sep 1, 2015

I am still figuring it out. I loved OB....a lot til I didn't anymore. Burnout threatened and I moved on. Dialysis is pretty good for predictability and knowing your patients.....

Least favorite hands-down was LTC. Poor staffing, overwork, medicating 30-40 residents in 2 hours' time and falls which had hours and reams of paperwork. I love elderly but nursing homes are very understaffed. Such a shame.

NursesRmofun, ASN, RN · Sep 1, 2015

Most favorite: Part time ER RN in outdoor oriented community, where coworkers give you fishing tips and advise on snowboarding gear. (My new gig)
Least favorite: Drama filled workplace with entrenched cliques, and backstabbing, fire breathing demons, who are Satan's spawn...

I think I know that second place. :yawn:

NursesRmofun, ASN, RN · Sep 1, 2015

I love Oncology and should have stayed in it. I have not. Maybe I'll do hospice again since it's a little lighter on an older body. I also didn't mind corrections....but prefered Federal Max Prison to jail. Actually felt a little safer in the prison vs the jail. But that might have been a false sense of security (not sure), trusting the CO's.

Oh...and least favorite can't really be a legitimate ans. because, for me, my least fav would have more to do with the staff than the job.

OrganizedChaos, LVN · Sep 1, 2015

I love Oncology and should have stayed in it. I have not. Maybe I'll do hospice again since it's a little lighter on an older body. I also didn't mind corrections....but prefered Federal Max Prison to jail. Actually felt a little safer in the prison vs the jail. But that might have been a false sense of security (not sure), trusting the CO's.

I'm looking to work at a fed prison after I get my RN. But I know what you mean about the false security at the jail, those jail CO's are terrible & just don't care sometimes.