Challenges Of Istj In Nursing

Facing Challenges In the fields of personality types every person may have a different kind. Some may have INTJ, INTP, etc, or some may have ISTJ. ISTJ stands for Introverted (shy and reserved), Sensing (using emotion), Thinking (using the mind), and Judging (having an opinion about someone). ISTJ means that an individual can come off as quiet or reserved and he or she is also engaged in living in peace. (Merriam-webster dictionary)(Personality page paragraph 2) A good career field for the personality type ISTJ is nursing because they are caring. In the field of nursing, there will be several different challenges and obstacles ISTJs will have to go through. Some of these challenges include staying calm and patient, no matter how rigorous …show more content…
Being judgmental doesn’t necessarily mean labeling a person as good or bad although it comes off that way, but judgmental also means when he or she makes an opinion about someone after watching them closely. Nurses often see the patient before the doctor does, so being judgmental towards he or she is not acceptable or professional on any level. When being a nurse he or she will see several different patients throughout the day and will have to make the right decision on how and when to treat them. However, by being a judging nurse towards your patient can cause he or she to not make the right choice because they may think that the patient is being dramatic, joking around, or being a hypochondriac just by observing their behavior/demeanor, or how they are presenting themselves not realizing that there is a deeper meaning to the situation. In order to face this challenge an ISTJ nurse will have to remember to treat all of her patients the same, and focus on helping and saving his or her life instead of focusing on the patients’ personality and how they are carrying …show more content…
In the field of nursing being compassionate is one of the several important things he or she needs to have in order to be successful. By a nurse showing compassion towards her patient helps he or she relax, and be confident in the nurse because she is showing them that she cares and that she wants to help him or her as much as possible. Showing compassion also helps the nurse stay focus because of her willpower to get her patient well and feeling better. Compassion also shows nurses sympathy towards their patients’ trouble because it is showing the patient that the nurse has a heart and cares about the patients’ pain or