What nursing specialties do you admire most?

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I want to give a shout out to nursing specialties that other nurses find admirable. Recently, I took a position to train as a SANE for pediatrics to find that position is way out of my league for my experience level and personal health. Three weeks into the training I discovered more details about that specialty than I considered. I really admire SANE nurses for their skills in the mission to support those affected by sexual violence. Please share what nursing specialty you admire most.

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I think I admire NICU and trauma the most, although I'd never want to do either one of them.

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.

I admire/respect really good geriatric/LTC nurses. That's a type of work I can't imagine doing. How anyone has the patience and dedication for that type of work, I don't know.

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Hmmmm....paediatric oncology nurses.

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Nurses who work in psych wards. No offense, but I'd seriously go crazy if I had that job. I don't know how they do it, & I respect them for it.

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Specializes in Geriatrics.

I admire nurses that are or about ready to retire from nursing. The specialty really doesn't matter in the big picture of life. What matters is that nurses do what they enjoy and are happy at. None of us are better than the other. We are all needed, because no matter what specialty we choose there will always be nurses who wouldn't or couldn't do it. I admire nurses in general. We are over worked, underpaid, but we go back each day. At the end of the day if you put all the BS aside from a bad shift, we still go back!

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I have a good friend that is a SANE nurse, I myself could not do it. Kudos to YOU.

I also admire ER nurses. I'm a pretty tough chick, but I don't have what it takes to handle anything that comes in the door.

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Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

I don't admire/respect any one specialty more than another. Every individual who dedicates their professional (and likely a chunk of personal) life to nursing has my respect. What we do isn't easy, regardless of the direction we come at it from.

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