u/Sea_Quantity6915

Just wanted to provide a fun exercise for all students: For all those planning to go into nursing or close to finishing school, what speciality are you thinking of pursuing?

Optional: re-post an update in a year or two if you end up changing your mind or if you were right all along.

***Note*** This isn't about if you will get into your specialty out the gate from graduating.

Just a fun, time capsule type of post to see how you've progressed but also to show future students how things may or may not change your minds.

Like how med students choose their residencies, nurses should be celebrated for when they choose their specialities. 🎉

Hello all! I tried searching for posts about this and did not get a lot of straightforward info, so I wanted to pick your brains. I am an aspiring nursing student (for now). Long story short, I was in a surgical technology program for a short while before I had to drop it because I was in a crappy job (non-medical job) that made my life hell as I was trying to go to school full time. So I decided to leave the program since I basically had a mental breakdown and the worst burnout I've ever experienced in my life while trying to support myself financially. I since moved out of that industry and now in the medical field, where I am much more fulfilled.

Now it has been some time and I am planning to take next steps in my career again being in a better financial position as well. I was wondering if I should go back to surg tech or go to nursing? I am a CPT I now and enjoy human connection it brings with patient interactions every day. However, these patient interactions are not something I'll have as a surg tech, obviously. So, I am also considering nursing. However, I am nervous that I would miss the part of the surg tech position I enjoyed so much, which was learning surgical anatomy. It was one of the most fascinating and amazing things I learned in such a short time, like a stimulation for my ADHD I never knew I needed LOL.

Are there nursing specialities, other than OR nursing/RNFA (which as a new grad would probably be impossible to get right out of the gate), that rely heavily on A&P knowledge more than others?