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.

Pediatrics or ER. Not sure which at the moment.

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Scrub nurse, prefer on L & D but I'll take anything

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Holistics!

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Geri-Psych

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Anywhere but the hospital! I would love community health nursing, public health nursing, or a clinic setting where I can spend time educating patients about their health. Holistics would also be pretty wonderful. I am currently an Allergy/Asthma LPN and have a job already lined up in a small community clinic as an RN. :) Only time will tell where I eventually end up.

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I need a year of critical care to apply for the CRNA program so any intensive care unit is fine with me

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Specializes in ICU.

I would eventually like to be in Pediatric Oncology. I don't think I could handle NICU. Trying to put needles in those tiny babies? I would be a nervous wreck. I will probably start up here like in the ED or something and work and get my BSN and try to get down to Indy to Riley hospital and get into Pediatric Oncology. I will just need to get the experience working in my town first for a few years. Who knows I may love it at a hospital here and not want to go. I would also maybe like to do ICU at some point. I was in ICU for a long time a few years ago and those nurses took great care of me.

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I want to become a family nurse practitioner as a final goal, good luck to you too !

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I would love to experience all area's at some point in my career. However, I believe Trauma is my true calling!! :)

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NICU, oncology, or phsyc for now...My daughter was in NICU last year for 2 weeks and that is where the fire got reignited in me to go to nursing school. I saw some extremely emotional things, and it takes a special person to work in NICU. Not just anyone could do it. I think I would have it in me. At one time I would have said ER, but the majority of the patients there just for cold symptoms and stuff they should go to their own physician for would drive me crazy.

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I would like to work in L&D, OB/GYN, NICU, or Postpartum. I guess i will see where I will end up in the future.

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I stared school wanting to get into geriatrics and I have been in geriatrics for 2 years now and love it. I love the stories they have to share and I love to see them recover and go back to their independent or assisted living lifestyle. I work in a sub-acute/rehab and get to know my patients over the 3-6 weeks they are with us, just about the time I get board a new patient arrives. Learning all the co-morbities and how the geriatric system works has been a continuum. When a hospice patient dies I get to be a part of that last chapter of their life and my heart breaks but I know they have lived a full life, I get to see it in their children and their grandchildren. I don't think I could handle the death of a baby, child or young adult. Geriatrics has been a rewarding and exciteing field.

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