Background: I am in nursing school and graduate in May '14. I decided I needed to get a job in the hospital as a tech so after graduation it would be pretty easy to get a full time position as an RN. The catch: the only place hiring at the time in the hospital was psych. I reluctantly took the position with the idea that after 6 montsh I could transfer to another part of the hospital. Problem is, if you want to call it that, 14 monthe later - I love psych.
Issue: The patients just break my heart over and over. Admittedly I have a huge soft spot these pts, when it appears others dont. It seems that mental health is just a revolving door, especially in Alabama, and would I really be making more of a difference in another part of the hospital?
Questions:
1) It seems that psych nurses are looked down on much like our pts
2) I would love to travel nurse later on but is their a need for psych travel nursing?
3) If I stay in psych, i feel as though I can make a bigger diff in pts lives as a PMHNP, thoughts.
Thats a mouthful - fire away. Thanks in advance.
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1) It seems that psych nurses are looked down on much like our pts
I do not look down upon psych nurses but neither do I think that they're particularly well-prepared to step onto the floor or into the ICU/ED.
If you like it and would like to make a career of it, who gives a rip what other people think?
If you're hoping to make it a stepping stone into an acute-care medical/surgical role, you may have trouble making the leap.
2) I would love to travel nurse later on but is their a need for psych travel nursing?
Not in these parts. The number of psych beds is shrinking, not expanding.
3) If I stay in psych, i feel as though I can make a bigger diff in pts lives as a PMHNP, thoughts.
Everybody wants to be an NP...
If you really want to be an NP then who cares about #1 and #2?
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If you like it and would like to make a career of it, who gives a rip what other people think?
If you're hoping to make it a stepping stone into an acute-care medical/surgical role, you may have trouble making the leap.
Not in these parts. The number of psych beds is shrinking, not expanding.Everybody wants to be an NP...If you really want to be an NP then who cares about #1 and #2?