How to pick your Nursing Specialty

We continue to grow as registered nurses everyday in our field & I've had the pleasure to work with a great team here in San Diego with my NurseBrotherGang in the Critical Care and Recovery Unit.
So the million dollar question
Is which Specialty would you choose?
-Ambulatory care nursing
-Advanced practice nursing
-Burn nursing
-Camp nursing
-Cardiac nursing
-Cardiac Intervention nursing
-Dental nursing
-Medical case management
-Community health nursing
-Correctional nursing
-Critical care nursing
-Emergency nursing
-Environmental health nursing
-Faith community nursing
-Flight nursing
-Forensic nursing
-Gastroenterology nursing
-Genetics nursing
-Geriatric nursing
-Health visiting
-Holistic nursing
-Home health nursing
-Hospice and palliative care nursing
-Hyperbaric nursing
-Immunology and allergy nursing
-Intravenous therapy nursing
-Infection control nursing
-Infectious disease nursing
-Legal nursing
-Maternal-child nursing
-Medical-surgical nursing
-Military and uniformed services nursing
-Neonatal nursing
-Neurosurgical nursing
-Nursing informatics
-Nursing management
-Nursing research
-Nurse midwifery
-Obstetrical nursing
-Occupational health nursing
-Oncology nursing
-Orthopaedic nursing
-Ostomy nursing
-Pediatric nursing
-Perianesthesia nursing
-Perioperative nursing
-Private duty nursing
-Public health nursing
-Pulmonary nursing
-Quality improvement
-Radiology nursing
-Rehabilitation nursing
-Research nursing
-Renal nursing
-School nursing
-Space nursing
-Sub-acute nursing
-Substance abuse nursing
-Surgical nursing
-Telenursing
-Telephone triage nursing
-Transplantation nursing
-Travel nursing
-Urology nursing
-Utilization management
-Wound care

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[NurseMendoza]

Remember we have over 100 different nursing specialties, which is amazing in this rewarding career as a Registered Nurse.
Thank you for watching my video my fellow nurses, student nurses and aspiring nurses. I hope that you keep up with the daily videos I post on the channel, subscribe, and share your learnings with those that need to hear it. Your comments are my oxygen and reason why I share all my nursing experiences, education and nursing tips, so please take a second and say ‘Hey’ 😉. 

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[roxannenoriega]

That is the EXACT verse I'm standing on to get me through nursing school!! Torn between O.R. and women services. 🤔

[arielmartin]

YES! That scripture and all this hard work are getting me through nursing school.

[cr]

Started watching your videos back when i was in grade 11 and now im in university and I am a first year nursing student! I really like it and your videos were helpful when i was making my decision. So thanks :)

[kayyy.beeeee]

I have done medsurg Trauma, medsurg, motherbaby, and I am starting NICU in a few weeks... very excited!!!

[cassieneils]

I agree with this completely! Trying it out is the only option. A great option is to do Patient Flow where you get to float everywhere before settling. For me I had no idea what I wanted to do, then when I floated to the ER I fell in love and it became very obvious that the ER is where my soul belongs ♡ If I didn't do Patient Flow as my first uniy it would of taken forever to find what specialty I belong to.

[cristalrg]

I'm a new grad starting in the ER AND I LOVE IT!!! in 2 years want to move forward and be a travel ER nurse and then we will see. Thank you for the advice. It is true, you won't know until you get out your comfort zone!!!!

[shannonschneiderman]

I am applying to nursing school in a few months. My ultimate goal is to a nurse practitioner but I may fall in love with being an RN and stick with that. I've always wanted to work in the cardiac ICU, they've saved my dads life on countless occasions. ❤️

[nikkiclark]

Heading into the CVICU after feeling like cardiac has been difficult for me. I totally relate. I am excited to have the time to learn it and be around experienced nurses.

[disneychick]

l like that you said one should not get comfortable. I am doing my nursing preceptorship right now on the pediatric unit which deals with mostly women health and children's health.  I love assessing the young children and making a difference in their lives, while communicating with their parents. It gives me life. I also enjoyed my clinicals as a student on the CVCU, labor and delivery, NICU, MED SURG. l haven't done ER or surgery yet, critical care,  ICU. I think there's so many opportunities in nursing that l might end up loving it better .  I worked with a GI nurse in the surgical lab.... just last week by chance and it was so much fun helping get the patient get ready for surgery. Patients on that floor stay a minimum of two hours and the flow on the unit is so laid back... I actually was surprised that l loved it too. So you are right, maybe l should not just limit myself to women and children, but try other places too. Great video!

[riceluv]

ED New Grad here! Loved it during my senior preceptorship and got hired in the same place!

[kearneyjohnl]

Heyy Nurse Mendoza!!! Thanks for the video! I'm in the LPN-RN transition program right now! For me, it's between two different areas, as of right now. I really want to work in the ER or on the Cardiac floor. I'm really good with people and I love making a difference in other people's lives and that's my niche. In the ER, I feel like I could catch people on the front end of things. I feel like I woukd be able to set the tone for the patients for their stay. For cardiac, I LOVE the heart! So I think I would be really good working with that population as well. So many choices! I guess I'll figure it out soon.

[djmindy]

I feel like I'm following your foot steps lol. I'm currently doing tele but it's still like medsurg as well. I love critical care and think I wanna do CVICU/ICU but I'll wait a little while longer to gain mor experience under my belt. I love watching your videos cus you speak the truth and I feel comfortable with your advice you give. Keep it 💯

[buddlopez]

studying for my ccrn. having trouble withhemodynamic s and cardio. before transitioning to ICU I thought I was pretty knowledgeable on the heart lol. there's always something new to learn

[GiinaHollister]

"I fell in love with it. No pun intended." Haha! Actually laughed out loud! Thank you for the video. Newly licensed nurse tuning in. 😊

[hazelcastro]

Estoy asombrada de todas las especialidades que hay disponibles en ese país, la tristeza de Honduras es que solo hay cuatro disponibles!!
Gracias por los consejos
Dios te bendiga montón!!!

[JTlifecoaching]

Wonderful video homie! I’m praying about it and this will definitely help making the right choice

[residentfnp]

I am looking into infectious disease control nursing. I believe you have to have a critical care background to set you in the right path. I am aiming for a masters in disease control =)

[ChristyFreakinRoss]

Glad I watched this. I'm an LPN and this May I'll be graduating to become an RN. I've been offered a job in Cardiac Telemetry/Thoracic Surgery unit. I like cardiac I just hope I still like it when I get into it. Ah! So overwhelming! I hated cardiac at first but I also fell in love it and it's so interesting to me

[jamiem]

I'm stuck between ICU and ER. I want to do them both!