Which specialty would you like to end up in?

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For all of us wanna be and soon to be nursing students what specialty would you like to end up in? I thought it would be interesting to see if that changes as we actually go through clinicals.

I'm exactly like you. NICU, L&d or peds

I love neonates, my sister was one and she is the most incredible little fighter, she's 2 now! Her nurses are the reason I began thinking of going to nursing school in the first place so I'm hoping NICU is what I end up in!

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Geriatrics.

I'm interested in OB (Hence the name) but I'll take Neonatal, PEDS, or E.R.

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Specializes in L&D, infusion, urology.

I knew when I went into nursing school that I want to be a midwife and that I wanted to find a position in L&D or postpartum. Same goal as I approach graduation, and I have a job lined up in PP! :)

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Specializes in CNA.

critical care nursing. I'd love to go to grad school and learn more about a nurse anesthetist program, too

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oncology

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I have no idea whatsoever....

hopefully that's not a bad thing

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I've been thinking about Pediatrics (maybe private duty?), School Nursing, the OR, and Labor and Delivery (thanks to "Call the Midwife"). But whatever God has planned for me is fine, I would just be happy to have a job as an RN! :)

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Specializes in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.

Corrections. :cheeky: Or cardiac. Or DM educator.

If I want to work in the hospital, then maybe pediatric hematology/oncology. It ultimately want to be an educator of some sort.

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Is an employed new grad a specialty?

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Specializes in Float pool.

I would like to be a trauma flight nurse or pediatric trauma nurse. We'll see where i end up!

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Specializes in Critical care.

You know... there's so many different things I feel pulled to. It all sounds fun! I just read through this entire thread and kept going "oooh, there's an idea!" every other post.

That being said, my background is as an EMT so I think I would be most comfortable in the ER, followed by L&D nursing because I also have a passion for childbirthing and babies.

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Specializes in Neurosurgery, Neurology.

I know that for the first job after school sometimes you have to go with what is available and offered to you. Ultimately, at this point I'm very interested in critical care, preferably cardiac critical care. I've worked as an ER tech and currently as a PCA on a cardiac telemetry unit, and always love working with the more critical patients and watching the RNs, CRNAs, RTs, physicians, etc during rapid responses and codes. I've floated to SICU and MICU as well, and found that interesting (especially SICU when the CRNA or anesthesiologist would bring up the patient from the OR). We'll see, excited to start nursing school in the fall!

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