Nurse to clinical social worker?

[Infofreak411]

Any nurses you know left the field to become some form of a therapist such as a clinical social worker, psychologist or Occupational therapist?

You see people from these fields enter nursing but never the other way around.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

I've never met an occupational therapist who left OT to become a nurse. In general, OTs are extremely well-paid, very respected and enjoy their work, so there's usually no reason for them to leave a good gig.

On the other hand, many social workers and psychology majors have left these respective career pathways to become nurses. I don't blame them: SW and psychology tend to be overworked and so underpaid that staying in these fields would require a labor of love.

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

I know one nurse who went back to become a social worker. She had stopped working as a nurse many years earlier, when her young daughter died of cancer.

[Dranger]

To a SW?

I mean I am sure there are but the pay is almost universally worse resulting in not many nurses making the switch.

I could see nurse to OT and maybe psychologist.

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

I do case management and I'm not a social worker. In fact, I'm paid more than those on my team with MSWs because I'm a nurse. So, I'm not going to grad school to be paid less.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

I do case management and I'm not a social worker.

Same here...I'm an RN case manager who just started this position a month ago.

I'm paid more than those on my team with MSWs because I'm a nurse.

Me, too. My 'lowly' BSN degree and RN license possess more monetary value in the employment marketplace than the MSW degree and social work licensure.

[Infofreak411]

Same here...I'm an RN case manager who just started this position a month ago.

Me, too. My 'lowly' BSN degree and RN license possess more monetary value in the employment marketplace than the MSW degree and social work licensure.

I wouldn't consider a BSN a lowly degree lol