Any nurses pursue master degree that is not related to nursing?

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I'm curious if anyone pursues master degree that is not related to nursing, such as engineer or psychology or anything else? And also what's the reason? Please share if you don't mind. Thank you ?

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Specializes in Being myself.

LPN>Master's of Urban Planning or MPP

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In the other direction I went to school with two individuals who were going from an MBA and advanced degree divinity respectfully to BSN.

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Specializes in Case Manager/Administrator.

I have a masters in health care administration, and computer information management

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9 minutes ago, Neats said:

I have a masters in health care administration, and computer information management

Have you done anything with the computer information management degree? Just curious as I was considering a similar degree before completion of my ADN, however I could never find out much information about the day to day tasks associated with the degree and hours of research about it online didn't turn up much information.

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34 minutes ago, caliotter3 said:

In the other direction I went to school with two individuals who were going from an MBA and advanced degree divinity respectfully to BSN.

PhD in religion > bedside nursing, bless their heart, they definitely have the patience for nursing.

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I have a Master's in Public Health (Epidemiology). Yes, still healthcare, but a different thought process/ approach on how health could/ should be managed. I wanted to be a disease investigator for the CDC.

Could have used the degree for lots of different jobs but I ended up back in the hospital (but not a bedside nurse). I'm happy with my career path so it worked out.

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On 2/3/2020 at 10:49 AM, MelEpiRN said:

I have a Master's in Public Health (Epidemiology). Yes, still healthcare, but a different thought process/ approach on how health could/ should be managed. I wanted to be a disease investigator for the CDC.

Could have used the degree for lots of different jobs but I ended up back in the hospital (but not a bedside nurse). I'm happy with my career path so it worked out.

If you don’t mind sharing, what do you do in the hospital? I am interested in doing epidemiology. And are you making much more money than bedside nursing?

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4 hours ago, Hayleyjc26 said:

If you don’t mind sharing, what do you do in the hospital? I am interested in doing epidemiology. And are you making much more money than bedside nursing?

I'm a Stroke Program Manager. The epidemiology helped as the programs I've worked with have been heavily involved in research, however I'd venture to say that many stroke programs don't actively participate in research. I do a lot of data review and analysis, PI projects, etc in my daily job activities. I also briefly did infection prevention and control which incorporated a lot of the same benefits from the MPH/epi degree.

As to pay...honestly I'm not sure. I think a lot of bedside nurses have worked it out really well with years experience, shift diff and overtime so they get paid highly. I'm exempt, so no holidays/ weekends (unless necessary for some reason) M-F fairly flexible schedule which I really like. Every exempt hospital-based job I've had still calculates years experience into the pay scale so that's something to consider as well.

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Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.

I have a masters in Teaching that I got before I was a nurse. It was helpful because when I went to apply to get my MSN, I didn't have to take the GRE!!!

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Not me, but one of my coworkers is an MA (medical assistant) who got a degree in healthcare technology. She is now going to get her masters in healthcare leadership JUST because she doesn’t want to start repaying her student loans. She’s not pursuing nursing at all. She said when she finishes this program she’s going to look into doctorate programs because as long as she’s in school, she doesn’t have to pay loans back. Me, I’m still an LPN with no plans to go further at this time.

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Specializes in Retired.

Let me get this straight. She can't pay her first school loan so so plans to go to school until she dies so she won't have to pay loans back:)?

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