Marriage and family therapy experience??

[Unlicensed06]

Hi everyone. I'm going to be graduating with my degree in marriage and family therapy in six months. I'm starting to consider becoming an RN because of the high pay let's be honest. I worked as a medical assistant for 9 months almost 7 years ago and was told that I had great bedside manner LOL. I would have went for nursing earlier but I figured I couldn't handle the bed pans. However, two kids later I can definitely hack the bed pans LOL. So now I'm going to be graduating with this wonderful mft degree and I am working as a counselor with emotionally disturbed kids right now so I'm wondering how can I parlay this experience into making me the best candidate I can be from my local RN program? From what I read they require applicants to have a minimum of 400 hours of healthcare experience. Do you think that my counseling experience is going to count? Or can I count my medical assisting experience from 7 years ago? I did shots and took vitals and prepped them to see the doctors and nurses if that helps.

If anyone has any other related advice about therapists going into nursing I would love to hear it thank you.

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

Unfortunately, counseling and distant MA experience is not going to count. Do you have the required science coursework completed? Because that is usually the biggest hurdle for folks with non-science degrees who want to transition to nursing.