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Per Huffington Post: video of Nina Pham just before her transfer to Maryland. She looks ok. Hospital Releases Video Of Ebola Patient Nina Pham.

If you're still interested in the healthcare field, I'd look at Speech therapy, audiology, PT, OT, PTA, OTA.

There's an indie documentary making rounds called the "Waiting Room." It chronicles the daily occurrences in the ED in a public hospital in Oakland, CA. Worth a watch. You can go to their website and watch clips. There is also a facebook page. Worth a see and much more realistic than NY Med lol. To the OP: I don't know if you're joking or whatever, but you should just get a job in a hospital as an aide in critical or intensive care, or as an ER tech.

Hi Nate: 1. IMO, psychiatric nursing with a BSN is mostly about millieu, passing meds, therapeutic communication, the occasional takedown, suicide/razor precautions, etc. You are also responsible for nursing care such as IV therapy (you see it in inpatient psych wards) and wound care, as well as basic nursing care such as ADLs (bathing, grooming, etc) if the patient isn't independent. There are psychiatric aides who the ADLs, but you'll have to do it if they are busy because their care is ultimately the nurse's responsibility. In short, most psychiatric nursing is not directly related to psychotherapy. I don't know of any BSN psychiatric nurses that are trained in psychotherapy and I am not aware of any ADN/BSN nursing curriculum including such training in their curriculum. Given that, I am not sure how useful your experience in SW or psychotherapy will be in securing a job as a BSN psychiatric nurse. Your experience with MH/addiction patients is something in your favor, but your inexperience as a nurse is not. If you get hired as a psych nurse, you will be the lowest member on the totem pole in terms of experience and seniority, meaning you will probably be the one working nights, weekends, and holidays. 2. Regarding the psychiatric DNP and prescription privileges: scope of practice and prescription privileges depend on your state's Practice Act. You'll have to research that. The only comment I will make regarding prescription privileges is that you have full responsibility but usually limited precription rights. You might be able to prescribe some psychotrophics, but you also have to monitor their side effects as well as any potential drug interactions. It's your choice if you want to take on that sort of responsiblity. I know a psychiatric BSN-RN who is also a PMHCNS-BC with prescription privileges who works part-time as a therapist, and she will not prescribe because she is too afraid of the potential liability. Regarding the MSN/DNP: I think a lot of schools are already moving toward the DNP. There are direct entry programs that will allow you to get an accelerated BSN (1 year) while pursuing your DNP, but those programs are not cheap. I inquired about a direct entry program in my home state and was quoted $30K/year, and this was from the state (public) university in 2009. In all, my total loan debt might be approximately $100K, but the counselors assured me that I could easily make it back, because I would be making that much per year, *cough**cough*. Making $100k/year is not guaranteed, however, and a lot of NPs work as regular floor nurses making the BSN wage. Buyer beware. I'd advise you to make friends with some psychiatric nurses in your area and pick their brains about their jobs. See if you can shadow them on a shift. That's the best way to decide if you want to go the medical route.

I'd get a job in a facility that involves direct patient care. That way, you can see what the work is like before you make a decision.

Well, the experts predict this impending "job shortage" by 2020, so you'll have to wait almost a decade. Regardless of Obamacare, the healthcare industry is contracting and trying to save money any way it can, including cutting nursing and UAP staffing and increasing nurse-patient ratios. So you might be able to get a nursing job ten years hence, but you might not like the working conditions at all. JMO.

What interests you the most: taking care of a person's physiological or their emotional/psychological/social needs? Nurses focus on the former; SWs/counselors on the latter. Your general psychiatric nurse is not trained in psychotherapy. (S)he is focused on their participation in milieu therapy and on administering meds. The nurse might lead a group session, but the goal of those sessions is about group participation and respecting boundaries, not psychotherapy. Social workers/counselors focus on the patient's needs in the community and sometimes they will do therapy. They can also establish private practices. It's difficult for new nurses (with no experience) to get jobs because there is no nursing shortage. You just need a master's degree to do psychotherapy.

There is a backlog of new grad BSNs from UHM and HPU dating from 2009 at least. Most of the ward clerks, aides, and techs are new grad BSNs. Most hires for new grads are internal. Hope that helps.

This management style doesn't work.

Telemedicine will probably require nurses with experience and those nurses will probably have a high caseload. These jobs will probably be outsourced outright or nearsourced to states with comparatively low wages and no unions.

I forgot to add: you might want to look at rehabilitation-oriented jobs like PT/OT/speech or audiology. If you're looking at a 2-year vocational program, then PTA/OTA /EMT.

Broadly put, there are no significant number of jobs available. What few jobs are actually available are fought over by both new graduates as well as experienced nurses. Hiring freezes are not uncommon. Meanwhile, administrators are free to do whatever they want to their employees and prospective new hires because of the large number of Rns looking for work. Will the job market ever improve? Who knows.It's not a good idea to go into healthcare right now unless you just "know" you want to be a nurse and are willing to devote a lot of time and effort into starting your career. Also: you should enroll in a BSN program, not an ADN.

Actually there is no guarantee that you'll get a job even with ICU experience in Honolulu. Since HMC closed (2 hospitals), there are former HMC ICU nurses still looking for a permanent placement and are working agency in the interim.

Lack of jobs.

Stick with being an attorney. You can spend the 5+ years it will take to get your foot in the door as a CRNA to grow your legal practice, and be that much ahead.If you want to go into medicine, though, you may as well go to med school and become an anesthesiologist.