Furthering education... Options?

[becky520, BSN]

Hello All,

I am a RN, BSN with 8.5 years of experience in Med/Surg and OR nursing. I have recently been thinking about going back to school for my Master's in nursing. I have no desire to be a NP or CRNA. I would love to hear from people that have their masters in nursing. I am trying to figure out which track to choose.

What track did you choose? Why? What was the resulting career after completion of your degree?

Has anyone completed an Informatics degree? What did you do with that?

I think I am interested in Staff Education. Maybe Leadership. But I would like to hear other peoples experiences. It seems that when I google this topic, it's just a bunch of ads for schools.

[traumaRUs, MSN, APRN]

Moved to post-grad nursing forum. Best wishes on your choice.

[DrCOVID, DNP]

You really have to be careful picking a degree plan these days... a lot of schools are trying to just make money. Not only that, a lot of paper are worthless. Tech companies only really care what you produce. You could have a million certs in whatever, but at the end of the day, if you don't know how to code and lead a team you will have problems. I have several friends that did computer science or networking all that matter is certs and job exp. The same thing goes for informatics. I was looking at this degree, it is clearly not a money maker for schools as there are not many nursing informatics programs. Many smaller places don't have informaticists, and the larger ones that do don't really require any sort of degree. The degrees are mostly online or online only. Here's one of the accrediting program searches: https://www.cahiim.org/programs/program-directory There are 24 programs IN THE COUNTRY for health informatics Masters or above... LOL what does that tell ya?

I think the same is true of a lot of the leadership and management degrees. They are so easy and online only, I think most places just promote from within based on years of service. These degrees aren't really respectable. Clinical degrees like CRNA or NP prepare you for a certain role are much more competitive and worth investing in. You can make 200k+ as an NP if you pick up more hours, so when ppl say its not worth it since you can make 100k as an RN doing extra shifts, they are nutty.