While we’re on the subject of the different types of registered nurses I need to explain something about categorization. With a few exceptions, there are four basic ways of dividing up the different areas of nursing. It’s entirely possible (and it is in fact usual) to combine one or more of these different specialties. So there’s a definite sense of mix and match available, which slightly complicates whatever we might say about the results of our EQSQ personality tests.

The four areas are, by where the treatment takes place, by the disease being treated, by the part of the body being treated or by the type of person being treated. So, to be slightly silly about it, we could have a nurse who specializes in treating lung problems in a clinic, or in a hospital ward (”place”), a nurse dealing with lung cancer (disease), or lung problems (organ) or breathing problems in the old (person). Similarly, we might have a nurse who specializes in al treatments of the old, or of any lung disease anywhere and so on.

As you can imagine, the mixture of empathic requirements and systemizing are going to change markedly, depending upon whether you’re working with whoever comes into the emergency room next, purely with children ill with cancer or in a vaccination center for the healthy. So to work out precisely which results of our personality tests best suit you to exactly which nursing career is going to be a little difficult, but we’ll give it the old school try in the next few posts.