I'm wrapping up my last year at my local community college as I am almost done with my prerequisites. The next time is to apply for programs! I am so excited and nervous to take this next step ?
I love reading everyone's posts up here, a lot of you guys inspire me and I am constantly being swayed of which specialty I'd like to be in one day. I shouldn't even be thinking about that right now because I have yet to start but I can't help it!
With that being said, what is your favorite specialty and why? And when I mean specialties I obviously don't mean just for advanced roles. For me I LOVE the thought of assisting in surgery, and the thought of working with babies? (But not surgery for babies - that's too much :)) But at the same time FNP interests me to? I am just all over the place and I'm sure once I get into a school I'll know what I want to do. Psych sounds fun to as my two psychology courses I had to take as prerequisites were very interesting. ?
ALSO, if you'd like, can you tell me what specialty you worked in that you didn't like as much and why? Was it just not for you or was it the environment/management you didn't like?
My mother loathes the bedside position at the hospital - she loves working in home health. She feels more independent for obvious reasons and she loves being out and about during the day driving to see her patients. She's been doing it for 10+ years and loves it. She said the patient to nurse ratio was just crap at our local hospitals and that she was just so burnt out - it sounds like a lot of the stories I hear up here haha.
I love critical care. I love trying to solve the puzzle, although the puzzle can frustrate me at times when there’s no reason for why a patient deteriorates. Mine deteriorated during my entire shift despite adding numerous drips. Could not figure it out. I’ll be interested to see where he is when I go back in a couple of days.
LovingLife123
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I love critical care. I love trying to solve the puzzle, although the puzzle can frustrate me at times when there’s no reason for why a patient deteriorates. Mine deteriorated during my entire shift despite adding numerous drips. Could not figure it out. I’ll be interested to see where he is when I go back in a couple of days.