Nursing Students Post Graduate
Published Jun 11, 2007
HealthyRN
541 Posts
I am currently enrolled in an FNP program that starts in 2 months, but I am starting to have second thoughts. I did not enjoy working in acute care as an RN, but I am enjoying my new job in community education that does not involve direct patient care. I've been thinking about switching my track to the MSN in nursing business and health systems. This track has several specialities within it: management, informatics, policy, education, and entrepreneurship.
Management does not appeal to me at this point, but I am intrigued by the other tracks offered. Is anyone working on or graduated from an MSN program that offers a similar track? What kind of job opportunities have you discovered?
traumaRUs, MSN, APRN
88 Articles; 21,256 Posts
If you definitely don't like bedside care, I would seek alternatives to the NP. I did an MSN with a concentration in management and leadership first. Like you, managament wasn't for me. I did go back and do an adult health CNS and have been happy with it. I work in a clinical setting.
llg, PhD, RN
13,469 Posts
Assuming it is a good school ... the track you describe sound pretty good to me. There are a lot of good jobs in those fields and we need well-educated people in them.
joannep
439 Posts
Hi,
I also did a MSN concentrating in management and leadership. It was a fantastic course, I made a lot of good friends and it has helped me get some fantastic jobs.
Thank you for the replies. Joanne, can you give me examples of the jobs that you have held since getting your MSN?
yogastudentRN
79 Posts
I am....its Health Sciences Leadership and Management, and I am doing the Education track. I have taught health sciences classes as an adjunct before (not in nursing though) and really liked it. So I know I'd like teaching RN's or being a nurse educator.
I would enjoy doing a PNP program and working as a NP, BUT my DH is military and I don't know where we will move next----very hard for NP's to get jobs in some places, especially if they are totally new to the area. I've seen a few of NP's at my old pediatric Urgent Care get really bitter and jaded after a while too, not to mention worked like mules----bad as the residents, but paid less. :angryfire
mathilda843
47 Posts
Yogastudent,
Would you mind telling me where you're doing your MSN? Is it online?
Thanks,
Mathilda