MPH?!!

[Helou]

Hey!

So I'm a medical surgical nurse with 1.5 year experience. I'm satisfied in work but I dont think I'm strong enough to stay as a nurse for life who works double shifts, more than 7 night duties per month and having continuous stress that you live in especially when you're home post night duty and the manager calls you to point out that there is one paper you didn't fill and that's a deficiency on your behalf in time you were struggling at the end of the shift because you are busy with two patients: One is dyspneac and the other should be prepared to OR.

I don't know if this happens in all hospital facilities around the world, but I'm starting to lose the grip. I'm thinking of going outside the hospital setting and I felt MPH program will help me acheive this.

However I want to know if I'm understanding this program correctly, so I want your help please.

As far as I know, masters in public health differs from nursing by focusing on prevention and on community workshops. In nursing we cure the ill patient. In public health we prevent patients from being ill by issuing new policies, doing research, community workshops, improving community facilities, etc,,,

Is this true?

Plus it is well know that to practice the nursing profession, you need to have license , however if I am an MPH graduate and I want to secure a job in this field, is a license necessary in international countries in general?

Thanks ! :)