3. Do you think that an ENFP would make a good registered nurse and enjoy being one...

Do you think that an ENFP would make a good registered nurse and enjoy being one?

I'm an ENFP nurse.

I enjoy being one. No two days are the same, I get to make a difference in my patients' lives, and the pay is nice ($30/hr base starting for a new graduate).

But it can be really fucking hard as an intuitive feeler sometimes. I'm on a medical-surgical/telemetry floor, which is a common place for new graduates to start. Yesterday, I got an admission at the beginning of my shift; he was a really pleasant guy and enjoyable to talk to. An hour later after seeing him, his heart went into a lethal rhythm and he almost died. The adrenaline rush from something like that is unreal and honestly not pleasant IMO for an ENFP. Some personalities thrive off of that, but not mine. I'm okay, but things like that generally stick with me for a day or two after (including right now), which can be overwhelming and not fun to deal with. I've also found COVID hard to deal with. Most of the COVID patients I get that are sick enough to be in the hospital aren't going to get better and go home. COVID patients' outcomes are often dismal and futile, which is really hard to deal with while having a personality that thrives off of potential possibilities. These patients generally have no possibilities besides suffering and inevitable death, which really weighs on me some days.

Nursing can be a great fit for an ENFP, but ENFPs have to accept the realities of what they'll see and have to do in this job. And they need to know their limits. I think there are good nursing jobs that are good fits for ENFPs (think outpatient clinics, outpatient surgery, urgent care, school nursing, nursing informatics, research nursing, insurance nursing, nurse practitioner, etc.), but you need at least 1-2 years of hospital experience to get those jobs. So they have to be okay while sticking it out those 1-2 years like I'm doing now to be able to move into the jobs that are better suited to the ENFP personality where we deal with less traumatic/emotionally heavy stuff. I can't wait for the day that I can move into one of those jobs outside of the hospital. I think I'll be able to stick it out my 1-2 years to get to a better job, but I know I wouldn't be able to stick it out longer than that without becoming seriously burnt out. We just don't have the personality of those nurses that stay on a floor or in ICU or ER for decades. That's better suited for sensor thinking types.

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