What nursing specialty interests you the most for the future?

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I am just going to be starting nursing school in the fall, but as of right now from doing research, watching shows and hearing from people with the experience, I'm leaning toward perioperative (OR) nursing. How about you?

I want to be an ER nurse when I earn my BSN. Eventually I would like to get either my MSN or NP. I haven't decided yet whether I want to pursue the academic side of nursing or the clinical side.

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Would like to be involved in community health, infection disease control, forensics, psych, and corrections. Hoping to one day be in charge or some leadership position for public health within correction system for a state, ha.

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Specializes in Post Acute, Med/Surg, ED, Nurse Manager.

I am presently a CNA in a 100 bed LTC rehab facility. I am starting nursing school in the next month. I know my horizons will broaden exponentially soon. However, I really want to work with the elderly and mental health. I love working with dementia patients and have a lot of experience with mental health issues and the elderly with various jobs and life experience. I think both needs mental health and elderly population are undeserved in my community. I am fascinated by Med/Surg too. But I have a feeling I will find myself working with the elderly.

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Specializes in Adult Psych.

Well, you can already tell even in school if you do well in chaos or if you prefer structure/routine. How do you handle your assignments or schedule? As a student and personally I handled many things at once and had every hectic personal life, chaos in clinical actually didn't upset me that much because my life was already hectic! Maybe if your unsure about it, you lean toward a calmer environment?

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Specializes in Adult Psych.
I really want to work with the elderly and mental health. I love working with dementia patients and have a lot of experience with mental health issues and the elderly with various jobs and life experience.

OP that is awesome and good for you if you stick with it. Geri/Psych is growing and underfavoured. I work on an Adult psych unit and a third of my patients are usually geri/psych.

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OP that is awesome and good for you if you stick with it. Geri/Psych is growing and underfavoured. I work on an Adult psych unit and a third of my patients are usually geri/psych.

Our state cut a lot of funding to psych shut down five facilities and a hospital kind of a disappointment. Old psych unit on we mixed in geriatrics on our unit with adult pop. Many just sat their for month's because limited beds at nursing homes. Kind of sad.

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I do not work in this field, so I don't have personal experience. But I have a friend in NY that works in nurse informatics. He work 2 years in ICU before finding this job. He is a career changer, and has a BS in computer science before he went to nursing school. That really seemed to make a difference. If you don't, and don't want a whole other degree, maybe looking into certificates at your local university or community college.

Thank you for your input. ComSci would definitely be a plus. It's a long shot, but maybe I can double major in Nursing BSN and Computer Science? But man.. that sounds tough just even reading those words together! If you don't mind me asking, is your friend an RN, BSN and what kind of company he works with? Feel free to message me, too! Thank you so much again! You are the only one that has some lead in this field lol

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I've always liked L&D. Mothers and babies interest me, helping families off to a good start etc. But, I'm definitely keeping an open mind, and I think it would be better to do a few years in Med Surg for the experience. I've just finished my first rotation of Med Surg clinicals, and have really enjoyed it. I've also thought about school nursing.

Anyway, I have no idea what I'm going to end up in!

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I want to be a Nurse-Midwife. Really, the only reason I started researching nursing school at all was to be a midwife. Now, the more research I do into nursing in general, the better I feel about my decision. I have been around labor/delivery for about 3 years now, although in non-medical roles. Its where my heart is, however I'm keeping my options open. I'm prepared to give my all to all rotations (even though psych scares me a little) and in the end I will take whatever opportunity is afforded me. Although I prefer to work in L&D when I graduate, the overall philosophy of the unit may make or break that decision. The midwifery school I plan on applying to only requires one year of nursing experience, regardless of the specialty.

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