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It seems as though many people who enter nursing want to enter the ER or the Labor and Delivery unit because of the "cute babies." So I ask this question: what would you like to specialize in once you are a nurse?

I am in interested in the NICU and pediatrics. I also wouldn't mind labor and delivery.

I am interested in O.R. nursing. I love the one on one patient contact. Something different and exciting everyday. I am also a Surgical Technologist and only changed my career path so that I can advocate for my patients without fear of losing my job.

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Enjoyed reading your hopes and desires. Made me remember way back when. I wanted to be a psych nurse in '94, then quickly realized that while thought processes are amazing it is not the thing for me to do-just to read about. LOL My dreams have changed as I have. I went to physical rehab (LOVED it) then to home health with plans to do hospice, that was 10 years ago, now I want to teach. This is one of the cool things about being a nurse you can change without starting over

good luck!:yeah:

Yay for teaching! :yeah: I'm just getting started and hoping for a good med-surg new grad residency, but psych, home health, and hospice have all topped my list at some point. Also oncology and the cardiac cath lab--often whatever I happen to be doing at that moment! There are so many things to do as a nurse, it's great! I do think more care will be done in the home and community in the future, and geriatrics will be a big area, and I can see myself eventually going in those directions. But I'm also starting to think I might like teaching one day. Good teachers are always needed!

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Pediatrics oncology.

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Specializes in Developmental and Intellectual Disabilty.

This is a great question. It is a very wonderful highlight to nursing that you can choose from so many areas.

I was intrigued to see quiet a few responses indicating Forensic nursing as an area of interest. This is an area of interest for me as well. SANE also interests me. Anything along those lines.

I know I don't want to do L&D. I also don't think ER is my area.

I would possibly like Nursing Research or Home Health as well. A population that stirs my heart is those with developmental disabilities. I worked in this area for a year before I started full time school and loved it.

I'm looking forward to clinicals and getting my "feet wet", so to speak. I really hope and pray I get good clinical instructors that impart a love for and healthy respect for their area of specialty but also are good teachers.

:lvan:

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Labor & Delivery, inspired by the nurses that worked with me while giving birth to my sons!

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Specializes in Maternity.

I am just starting nursing school this year, but I am most interested in NICU, L&D, or Oncology. We'll see if the nursing school experience changes where my heart lies.

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I am mostly interested in Oncology and Trauma/Surgery. I eventually want to go to pharmacy school and specialize in oncology too.

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Specializes in LTC, Hospice.

Starting Nursing school this fall, but have worked in LTC as a CNA for 5 years.

When I decided on nursing, I mainly wanted NICU, but after working I am also interested in Geriatrics, Hospice, and I am absolutely fascinated with wound care.

But one thing I have learned is you never know until you try what you will end up liking. Before I started working in LTC I swore up and down I would NEVER work in a nursing home, but I love it!

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I want to get some experience in a hospital, before deciding what I'd like to specialize in. I wouldn't mind working in a NICU. Not due to the cute babies, but because I had a terminally ill infant in one before, and know what the parents go through. I think I would have more empathy than others. However, since there isn't a NICU around here, maybe Oncology. Only time will tell.

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Specializes in N/A.

For the love of God please let me one day work in surgery! I have loved surgeries since I was a little kid. I would sneak away from my bedroom at night and hide behind the couch and watch E.R (my mom watched that show and I hid around the corner:)).

I would watch TLC or the Discovery channel showing operations or rare cases of a disease, and so the Doctors had to operate. I love that, and still do.

I get so jealous when I see people on this site with job experience in surgery...ok, not really, but I know that one day I will be a bomb surgical nurse. I will.

ICU would be cool too.

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Specializes in Oncology, MBU, Surgical, Pediatrics,.

Whe I first started as a new RN (two years ago) my plan was to work in E.R. At that time I knew that working there I would have to deal with the pediatric population. For that reason I decided to start in pediatrics and the main reason was because I was a little bit scared of working with babies and small kids and perhaps anxious parents thinking that this would give me some experience and get me closer to the ER.

After two years of working with kids and post-partum moms/newborns I am starting to take even more interst in this population and actualy had the idea of transfering to L&D in the near future. I know that alot of things could go wrong during labor and firmly believe I would be a good nurse in that specialty.

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This may make me the weirdest person on the planet but L and D depresses me --- sending those angels home to lord knows whatl..... and why do some iffy people get to "pop em out' and I know plenty who would be wonderful parents who aren't able. One of those I want to stomp my foot at "god" about and ask why.

I think I want to do palliative care, hospice, oncology. BUT having been exposed I like ER and think I might like ICU.

I know I can be a great advocate for the patient who is hurting.

Any thoughts anyone?

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