career change: Non-nursing B.S. to MSN

[heartappa]

Hi all,

I'm new here! I just graduated in June 2012 with a B.S. in Human Biology & minor in Psychology from UC San Diego. I've been on the pharmacy school route: recently applied for pharmacy schools, currently taking anatomy & physiology at a community college, recently started working as a pharmacy technician. However, I've been having doubts about my future in pharmacy...Nursing is seeming more enticing to me than pharmacy & I feel that nursing would be more personally rewarding for me. I actually was interested in nursing when applying to colleges in high school (got into UC Irvine's nursing program but decided on UCSD & changed to pharmacy...sometimes I feel like kicking myself for not pursuing nursing in the first place).

Anyways, I always knew about Accelerated BSN programs & recently discovered MSN programs...From what I understand, I can get more out of the MSN. Anyone with any advice about MSN programs for people with non-nursing BS? What should I do???

[dedicatedone]

In terms of the content, it is basic care of patients and learning the skills to improve their status. Due to the fact that it is an accelerated program, there is some overlap where we are learning certain techniques outside of the RN scope of practice and specifically told that these skills or assessment knowledge is more important at an NP level. Unfortunately your question of what I am learning is a little too broad for me to sum up everything that we are doing but know that we are learning all about medications, nursing care, in addition to hands on clinical to use our skills.

I am liking the program. It definitely is accelerated! We study non stop and get very to few breaks but it will all be worth it in the end. It's all about finding balance in the end :)

[fancyeyes, BSN, RN]

I went to UCSD and was pre-optometry with a 3.0 GPA too lol...any advice on where to apply? Where did you guys end up going to school?