What's your Myers-Briggs personality type?

[bekahinpink]

If you've ever taken this personality test, what was your type? What speciality of nursing are you in? I'm a student considering the ER and am an INFJ.

[happyinmyheart]

Went through and personally tallied them up for you. here is the count so far:

ISTJ-7

ISFJ-3

INFJ-7

INTF-0

INTJ-6

ISTP-1

ISFP-0

INFP-4

INTP-2

ESTP-0

ESFP-0

ENFJ-2

ENTJ-1

ESTJ-0

ENFP-1

ENTP-3

ESFJ-1

I'm still the lone ESFJ

[happyinmyheart]

I'm an esfj. Just became a LVN so I'm job hunting and worjing on my prerequisites. I really want to work in hospice though.

Ahhhh I found someone like me!!

[Surprised1, MSN, RN]

Why are so many of us nurses here self-reporting as "Introverts?"It makes me wonder if we are not responding based upon how we feel at the end of a workday or week of clinicals and lecture. Anyone who has taken a basic statistics course surely realizes the limitations of a "test" such as this.

I think it's a pretty good test. I've taken it maybe half a dozen times over the past 20 years or so, and I've always been an INFJ. This has been consistent through different seasons and personas in my life. Not sure why I went into a field where I have to interact closely with many people for 13 hours a day :/

[Aurora77]

I'm split between INFP/INTP. I'm another one of those people who can fake extroversion well but am mentally drained at the end of my shift. I work night shift on a med/Surg floor. I can definitely say I fantasize about a quiet office job somewhere.

[crossfitnurse]

I took the enneagram test, and apparently, I am a number 9.

I need a 9 in my life for sure! Peacemaker :)

I know someone stated that it's strange to have all these introverts as nurses. I encourage you all to take the enneagram test and MERGE it with your Myers Briggs findings.

I am an ISTJ but a 3 enneagram and it explains SO MUCH.

Us 3s are easily mistaken for extroverts. We simply "recharge" as introverts.

I love quite drives home after work... All to myself :) and when those call bells aren't going off at 2am on a night shift and everyone's asleep... Oooooh man. Introverts DREEEEEAM.

[kfitzy89]

ISFJ-Float pool :-)

[mushyrn, BSN, RN]

INFP - I work med/surg & home health.

[poppycat, ADN, BSN]

ISFJ; I've always worked Peds

[Wrench Party]

INTJ- OB/gyn, outpatient surgery

[Wrench Party]

I can somewhat explain at least the INTJ contradiction for nurses- we're good at science and math, and understanding systems, which would make us good at technical skills and procedures. INTjs are detail oriented, which is good for charting and assessments. We can compartmentalize our feelings pretty efficiently, so our professional demeanors remain intact

and rather stoic. Honesty can bite us in the behind both ways.

Introversion does not necessarily mean anti-social- I really thrive when I can be 1:1 with patients or in small groups. It's the large groups or public speaking I find overwhelming and mentally 'tiring'.

[eternalbride]

I've taken these types of test of multiple of times. The first time I took it, I was a ISFJ. The next time I took it, I was a INFP and so on. I took it again and have been consistently a ISFP. Maybe I don't know myself too well lol.

I'm not a nurse just yet, but I certainly like community health/public health nurse.

[kissmypineapple]

I am also INFJ, and if I remember correctly, INFJ's are very justice oriented. I worked for years as a domestic violence victim advocate, and now am a nursing student. I, too, joke with my friends about why I keep picking fields where I have to talk to people all day long, but my motivations are just to be in that role, I guess. And I do just fine talking to people, but at the end of the day, I do need quiet time. I think people confuse being introverted with being shy.