BSN going for MSN, advice need please :)

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Specializes in Emergency Room.

Hello ladies and gentlemen,

My name is Jenna and I was curious if anyone would be willing to give some advice. I graduated April 2015 with my BSN and have been an ER RN since June 2015. I am looking to go back for my masters in 2017. I am between opposite worlds, so it seems. I am interested in education because I love mentoring which I did during my last block of nursing school, it was amazing. I also love the challenge that anesthesia brings and its autonomy, looking into CRNA.

I'm curious to hear from people who have been apart of either career path!

I hear many have to quit work to go for their CRNA and go through the grueling program. I hear education is very difficult as far as the profession alone because of the frustrations it brings.

Any thoughts or tokens of wisdom? I truly want to do more. I am grateful and blessed to have my BSN and being an ER nurse I love it, but I want to keep moving forward. I crave to go back to school.

Thank you all!

Sincerely,

Jenna :)

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

I vote Education!! I love my job. It's very meaningful & NEVER boring. I am involved in making sure that those wonderful organizational strategies actually happen. My work involves all levels of nursing - from students to doctorally prepared leaders and researchers. I get to design creative learning programs - which means that I have had opportunities to acquire knowledge & skills in a wide variety of areas such as video production, animation, graphic design, psychometrics, gaming theory, creating elearning modules, etc. I work closely with the best and brightest (nurse educators --- WOOT!!!). And, I am well compensated for my efforts.

Academic education is a bit more stable and structured than my area of practice, but I have colleagues who are passionate about their in that arena also.

Bottom line. We (the profession) desperately need young energetic qualified educators to take our places when we shuffle off to our last inservice. . .

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Specializes in Emergency Room.

Aww that's awesome! Yeah I am leaning more toward that! I just have so much passion for mentoring and teaching. I find more a spark in my heart for that more than anything else it feels like! I definitely would love to put in my energy into his career path!

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