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  1. School Nurse to Pediatric NP

    I really like caring for the kids too. but I'm not sure about the all the politics of being in a school.
  2. Do You Like Being A School Nurse?

    Pay varies by locale. The DC area pays very well. Base pay is just as much if not more than in the hospital. In DC, the school nurses in the public schools are hired by the Children's hospital. In northern Virginia (Fairfax and Arlington) you're hire...
  3. School Nurse to Pediatric NP

    Are there any PNPs out there who were formerly school nurses? What was that transition like for you? Would you recommend acute care experience in peds before starting a PNP program? If you've worked as a PNP and a school nurse, which did you prefer? ...
  4. This helped a lot. I've been working in-patient and I'm hoping public health would be a better fit for me. I know that working in public health is a pay cut, and I'll be in a lot of debt after my MPH, so I was hoping teaching would also supplement my...
  5. I have been a mother-baby/antepartum nurse for four years now, and I want to transition public health. Mostly because I'm tired of being in a hospital. I have one year left in my MPH program and wondering what kinds of jobs I should be looking at. I ...
  6. it's a different way of thinking. as clinicians, we think of interventions that affect one person. so you have to think at a population level, and sometimes what you would do as a first line intervention for an individual would not work as a mass int...
  7. I'm doing the MPH at Columbia. I was going to do the dual degree with FNP program at the nursing school but decided not to. I think it will work out in the end.
  8. Hi Bobbie. I decided to pursue an MPH. I'm in my second semester now and I really like my program. I'm looking to forward to graduating and working.
  9. I am thinking about applying to msn/mph programs. I would like to earn a dnp some time in the future. Is the dnp reserved only for np's/crna's/cnm's or is this something a public health nurse can do? also i was originally thinking about doing a famil...