What is your specialty?

sicu...the only dislike is having to deal w/md's and nurses w/bad attitudes. other than that i love the pace, the learning and the patients and the scheduling (three 12 hour shifts...hopefully going to two 12 hrs and one eight).

right now i am a pulmonary nurse. been on this particular unit for almost 4 years...

i like the people i work with...and the docs (most of them anyway). but the only thing i am really sick of is the copd patients we have that keep smoking and will not stop and are admitted and readmitted hundreds of times.

I work on a Med Surg/Oncolgy/Ortho-Neuro unit. Im a new nurse, so Ive got to see and do a whole lot, even in my 8 months there. I dont know if youd consider this unit a specialty, but its a whole lotta everything!

Well I am a new RN and I am working on an Orthopedic floor. I love the staff, most of the patients (except the whiney men) :)

I hate... The high nurse to patient ratio on nights.. One RN can carry up to 13 by herself

I just graduated in June and work in med-surg and sort of on call for the OB department. I do think med-surg is a specialty in itself. We have peds, onco, surg and med, tele, and stepdowns.

ortho, 10 years. fell in love during nsg school, two ortho rotations and as a float cna when i'd ask to float to the ortho unit. discovered during school that i like surgery better than medicine and that respiratory (trachs, sputum, mucous) is my downfall. i wear my skeleton earrings all year long, proudly, not just at halloween.

Family Practice. I love it!

Ortho and rehab, all the way!!!

Med/Surg victim here...seems of late my 'specialty' is trying to keep geri-psych pts from climbing out of bed and listening to family gripe when I don't have more than 2 hands.......sorry, bad day

Med/Surg victim here...seems of late my 'specialty' is trying to keep geri-psych pts from climbing out of bed and listening to family gripe when I don't have more than 2 hands.......sorry, bad day

Hugs....that is definately a specialty in my eyes. :)

Med-Surg nurse here as well, currently doing medical-telemetry/medical. I've done neuro-med surg and neuro-intermediate as well, and trauma-med surg.

Med-surg is where it's at for me right now. It takes instinct, excellent assessment skills, and the patients are really really sick. I've got my certification in med-surg!