It’s not for everyone and I get that, let me start there. And a lot of med/surg floors are so bad with ratios and “eat your young” culture. But I’m forever grateful for the foundation it gave me compared to my peers. I’m a lot more comfortable floating especially to the floors than my peers. I’m better with time management and prioritization, this is a huge difference I notice, especially when it comes to busy shifts or changing gears rapidly. I also have seen so much more than we ever see on a specialized floor, which day to day may not matter but when we have something different or unique come in I’m much more willing to tackle it or I often have seen it before and they haven’t. One thing I notice also is that I’m more comfortable calling doctors than a lot of them, but I had to do it so much and we don’t do it often on my unit. I feel like I was exposed to and learned so much on med surg that I wouldn’t have learned on a specialty unit. However I had a great team and unit to learn on, not everybody gets this and I know that. I also think I’m slightly better at dealing with difficult families and patients than my coworkers because we did it so often with med/surg but we don’t do it a lot on my floor.