Family NP vs Psychiatric NP..whose more favorable / marketable

[TipSimmons]

Greetings everyone, I am a RN BSN and currently looking and deciding to return to graduate school for my MSN, I have worked as a psych nurse for 2+ years and 8 yrs as a nursing assistant in psych.my question is .. As someone who enjoys the clinical side of nursing, would becoming a FNP be more marketable in terms of stability and employment vs psychiatry? I hope my question makes sense. I really enjoy psych, I'm curious of the longevity.

[Gentleman_nurse, MSN]

OP, have you considered doing a PMHNP and taking the a class or two from an ANP program? Also look into continuing ed class. I've seen a few that address PMHNP managing non-psych medical issues.

[PG2018]

NY_teach said:

OP, have you considered doing a PMHNP and taking the a class or two from an ANP program? Also look into continuing ed class. I've seen a few that address PMHNP managing non-psych medical issues.

I've never seen that. I've got my eye on a three day CE course I've seen on the internet that teaches skills such as office surgery, simple and "complicated" suturing, radiograph interp., longbone fx mgmt., etc. Sure, I'll likely never do it, but I feel the desire to learn it. I'd like to go back over 12 lead again later too even though even EKG interpretation is outsourced these days.

[Gentleman_nurse, MSN]

I don't remember who offered it but it was affiliated with the APNA. I'm a member so I get a lot of junk mail from vendors offering training.