kay726

I am not a nurse but am a MSW social worker looking to go into nursing. I know that Valueoptions in NYC is looking for telephonic case management nursing if you are looking to get out of the hospital. I applied to do a social work case management portion, but I do not have enough experience.

I graduated with my MSW in 2007 and I would definitely recommend going for a RN instead. The pay is much lower for MSWs and you end up with a lot of student loans to pay back. The only way that one can probably make $ is to work for the VA or for a state or county job, and those have so many applicants now.The majority of jobs that are available only pay like $35,000 a year which really dosen't support someone living in NY. I currently work in the field of research where I make under $35,000 a year. I considered going back for a Ph.D in school psychology, but that is not a great field right now . So I will be going back for my ADN in the evenings and finish in 2 years and do the rest of the courses online for the Psychiatric Nurse Practioner program. I generally like the idea of a MSW, but it is so not rewarding and it is sad that the profession gets such little respect.

Primarily because all of the decent paying social work jobs are about 3 hours roundtrip commute for me. I live on the eastern end of Long Island, and most of the jobs are in the New York City area. Also I was contemplating getting a nursing degree and then doing an online program for psychiatric nurse practitioner, which builds on the social work with being able to give out meds.

I am a social worker who is contemplating going back for a nursing degree. I was curious to see what the job market is like for new nurses in the NYC tri state area. I live on Long Island. Thank you.