Where would your least favorite area to work be?

[CEN35]

Take the poll....then tell us why? :)

[nilepoc]

L & D yuck, can't handle crotch watch. ewwwww.

[CATHYW]

In nursing school, when we did our Psych rotation, our assignment was to sit down and talk with anyone on the open unit that was not staff. I sat next to a fairly young, attractive young woman, and began talking. We talked for quite a while, and I found out that she was married, the mother of 2 children, and working on her Ph.D in Mathematics locally at the Institute of Technology in the same town. I am now quite baffled, thinking maybe I got a staff member by mistake, so I asked, "what are you doing here?" She calmly said, "I tried to kill my kids." I then asked her why, and she said, "it was right there in my ....book," and she named the book. I decided that I was ready to go home. I obviously could sit and talk that long to someone that disturbed, and never know the difference-scaarrry!

P.S. All of the bio stuff was true-I asked one of the nurses on the unit. Yes, I made SURE she was the nurse, and not another pt!

[NeoNurseTX, RN]

LTC - too many patients! sounds depressing, too. also home health..that is just not my bag.

[I love my cat!]

Hated peds, hated OB/ L & D.

[LovingNurse, BSN, RN]

Peds is out for me. I love, love, love kids - but my heart aches so badly for the really sick ones that I'm just a mess thinking "this could be my child." Kudos to you that can muster the strength though.

[aheartfornursing]

I picked home health. I really don't like going into people's homes. Yuck.

[ChristineN, BSN, RN]

I picked med-surg. It's not really med-surg I hate as much as cardiac pts. I never really liked cardiac. I also hate not being able to communicate with my pts, so ICU or confused pts aren't my favorite. Meanwhile, I loved my psych clinical in school. Wouldn't mind working psych someday (I was on an inpatient eating disorder unit, it was fairly safe).

I work peds, I like my "under 21" pts.

[Iam46yearsold]

Working anywhere, where I was not close to either a good golf course or a beach.

[lauramae18]

Even though I feel as if I have a knack for the psych patients that land on our cardiac floor, I absolutely hated my psych rotation and when I've been pulled to that unit.

Psych nurses are saints.

[psychonurse]

Well when I did my psych rotation in school the only thing that I hated worse was L&D. LOL. I was a med/surg nurse from the get go, but after a few years of doing that, I decided to try something different and I went to corrections and guess what the majority of our clients are......psych. I have seen some interesting things in my 20 years of corrections but at least now when I get a phone call that we have someone that is talking suicide or hearing voices or whatever I don't run the other direction. I still like a good old broken bone or chest pain but I will do psych if I have to.

I have only worked LTC once in my life and that was back when I took my CNA traing back in 197???????? I hated it then and I have been to a few now and again and I still wouldn't do it at all. I don't have the back or the shoulders anymore for that type of work.

I couldn't do L&D (had some bad experiences in school). Wouldn't mind OR and have worked ER...

BTW- there was no place to mark that you wouldn't work corrections.....I am hurt....LOLOL:chuckle:p:D

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

I dislike infants, children, teenagers, and needy pregnant women. Therefore, I wouldn't work in L&D, postpartum, the NICU, PICU, pediatrics, teen clinics, or the well-baby nursery.

[Eirene, ASN, RN]

OR. I don't like it when I can't talk with patients and see them heal. I wouldn't want to work that close with surgeons either.

Ortho is a close second. Knees, hips, shoulders creep me out. I hate seeing people in so much pain. I am NOT looking forward my son's femoral osteotomy in 2 weeks.

I love, Love, LOVE cardiac.