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I am an Lvn and I decided I would really love to get into public health nursing for my career specialty versus doing any bedside patient care. My question is should I go back to school for my RN and then look into public health jobs or should I just go back to school for a mph degree since I'm already a nurse as an Lvn and can just add a public health degree to it? I know every public health job doesn't always require a nurse and just goes by a public health degree so I don't know if I should just focus on that degree instead so I can have more job opportunities in that field. I hope my question is not too confusing. Thanks
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I am an Lvn and I decided I would really love to get into public health nursing for my career specialty versus doing any bedside patient care. My question is should I go back to school for my RN and then look into public health jobs or should I just go back to school for a mph degree since I'm already a nurse as an Lvn and can just add a public health degree to it? I know every public health job doesn't always require a nurse and just goes by a public health degree so I don't know if I should just focus on that degree instead so I can have more job opportunities in that field. I hope my question is not too confusing. Thanks
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