Why is it everyone's favorite?

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I know this doesn't apply to everyone, but..........

Why is everyone's favorite areas mother/baby, ICU, and ER???

Just curious to know the reasons :)

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

Mother baby hell freaking no.

Trauma/ER/ICU High Adrenaline, fast paced. Im an adrenaline junky. Plus I like the environment.

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Mother baby hell freaking no.

Trauma/ER/ICU High Adrenaline, fast paced. Im an adrenaline junky. Plus I like the environment.

I agree with you on the mother baby! No thanks :)

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Specializes in Cath Lab/ ICU.

ICU-because I have control over my environment, my education, my patient, etc...

But cath lab is soooo much better!

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I absoltely loathe medical-surgical nursing. I haven't rotated through anything OB-related. I've delivered a baby. I don't want to do it again. Frankly, I don't even want to know anything more about that area. Long-term care is pretty dull too.

That said here are some matters of interest, and it's all rambling.

The Emergency Department: Pros- diversity, rapid turnover in patients, and the departmental culture; all that I like. Cons- the same whiney public I've spent my "career" dealing with that I'd like to escape from. I suspect this will be my starter department.

Psychiatric: haven't rotated through it, won't either, but although I probably wouldn't like being a RN I could see myself doing initial assessments and medication management with people in this area. I think it's an interesting field. It's a different role as well from the general, self-entitled, general, whiney public.

Home Health: never seen it. will get to in public health. will I like it, probably not. Why I like it? If working in an hourly or salaried agency with mileage it might not be too bad. I'm used to driving around quickly dealing with people. I know some calls would take longer, but eh.

Administration: long-term career choice for me. I've been a supervisor/manager in another walk of life. Loved it. Should've stuck with it. Personnel, policy, operations, and finance...setting the vision of a given area....very rewarding in fact much more so than any direct, hands on work.

Critical care: It's interesting, but I don't know if I want to do it. I'd like to train in it and know it, but I'm pretty sure I couldn't do it for more than a year or so at a time.

What I'm looking for: an environment of diversity in presentation in which I do not deal with the same patient for more than a few hours at a time and am intellectually challenged at least to some degree. I want to work 12's or maybe 10's or anything more than 12's to start out. I'd like to take a break from working five days in a row. I've done it. This isn't my first "career." I just want a break from it. I want to slow down for a while. I'm not looking for action and excitement. I'm not looking to change the world.

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Critical care: It's interesting, but I don't know if I want to do it. I'd like to train in it and know it, but I'm pretty sure I couldn't do it for more than a year or so at a time.

What I'm looking for: an environment of diversity in presentation in which I do not deal with the same patient for more than a few hours at a time and am intellectually challenged at least to some degree. I want to work 12's or maybe 10's or anything more than 12's to start out. I'd like to take a break from working five days in a row. I've done it. This isn't my first "career." I just want a break from it. I want to slow down for a while. I'm not looking for action and excitement. I'm not looking to change the world.

Very well-written response! I appreciated that.

Just curious - how come you don't think you could deal with critical care for more than a year at a time? Also, why do you only want to deal with a patient for a few hours?

Just curious and wanting to make conversation. Not trying to challange your response.

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I don't get the draw towards mom/baby either. Hated the rotation (in fact, it was my worst).

Love the ER but I also like the relationship with my patients and I like to watch the recovery.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE trauma. It's so interesting, fast-paced, and makes me think fast on my feet. I love the team atmosphere too. Everyone there really knows their stuff.

The reason I love trauma is the reason I would love the ICU.

But for me, I am in love with everything cardiac....therefore, I will probably end up in a CICU somewhere.

Med-surg is okay but not enough diversity and not enough autonomy for me.

I would not become a nurse if I had to work in LTC or psych. But, everyone has their place in nursing. Good luck to you finding yours!

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Very well-written response! I appreciated that.

Just curious - how come you don't think you could deal with critical care for more than a year at a time? Also, why do you only want to deal with a patient for a few hours?

Just curious and wanting to make conversation. Not trying to challange your response.

I'm not remotely a nurturing person. I got into nursing in an effort to learn more about healthcare in general. Disease process, treatment, etc. I want to observe it and take part in it. I want involvement in the diagnostic process. I don't necessarily have to do anything as much as I want to know about something.

Why short periods of critical care? It just seems like too much. You do too much with the same person or two for a whole shift or a few in a row. I just am not interested really in forming relationships or attachments with patients.

Not the nursing mentality - I know, lol.

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Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

Those drawn to mother/baby seem to like teaching. In general it tends to be a happier, healthier population and there is a lot of teaching involved, which can be fulfilling.

Pediatrics - not a clue. I hated it and would rather put a fork in my eye. Same with NICU. No thanks. Most of the people I meet who want peds really like kids. Unfortunately I have found one deals with super stressed out parents a lot more than the kiddos. A lot of my classmates who wanted pediatrics at first changed their minds after peds rotation. Sick kids are pretty different from healthy kids.

ER - Adrenaline junkies who enjoy high energy, fast though processes and lots of change. I can understand that I think, though probably not for me.

I am going into cardiac stepdown, at least for the first couple of years, to get that good experience. I used to want oncology/bone marrow unit but found it was too close to home and left me drained. Ultimately I want to be a women's health NP.

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Specializes in Gerontology.

I hate ER and ICU.

I work in Rehab and love it. I get to see my pts get better and go home.

I can spend time teaching them and learning about them.

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Specializes in Critical Care (ICU/CVICU).

I LOVE ER (traumas in particular)!!!!! It's fun, gross and nonstop. But I DO NOT like ICU. I just think ICU is soooooo boring, I don't see why people just die to be in the ICU lol.

But I also LOVE Pediatrics and psych. OB??? Hell no (and I'm a female)

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Disliked OB.

Disliked ICU.

I like what everyone else loathes: psych.

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