Pomfrey2006

Hi Kim, Well you are very avant- garde! I'm a nursing student, and our program is requiring us to purchase PDAs by this upcoming spring semester. The head of our nursing department is looking into Skyscape to work out a discount program for all of us students! My classmates and myself are looking forward to utilizing the new technology!! And thanks to all the other posts in this forum, they will be helpful in making choices with the software. I will have to pass this info on to the school.

OUCH! People who choose psychology do so because they find it interesting and they want to help others. Gee I have my bachelor in psychology, and I am enrolled in a BSN program currently. P.S. My grade point average is a 3.7.

OUCH! People who choose psychology do so because they find it interesting and they want to help others. Gee I have my bachelor in psychology, and I am enrolled in a BSN program currently. P.S. My grade point average is a 3.7.

Prmenrs sorry to hear those wicked people are coming to your hospital:crying2: They came to the hospital I work at a few years ago and were most inefficient. Hunter Group=group of good for nothings that Hunt down good employees, get rid of them, or do away with any small perks these employees may have, so the big executives can still maintain their salaries and perks and keep the hospital open!

Prmenrs sorry to hear those wicked people are coming to your hospital:crying2: They came to the hospital I work at a few years ago and were most inefficient. Hunter Group=group of good for nothings that Hunt down good employees, get rid of them, or do away with any small perks these employees may have, so the big executives can still maintain their salaries and perks and keep the hospital open!

Well I have my bachelors in psych, been in the MH field for 11 yrs, and now back to school for my BSN. Choose wisely. All of these previous posts state a lot of "truths" about the professions. Psych tends to require more schooling for less money, most states only really value a degree in social work and with the degree in psych one usually needs to go on for their doctorate if you want to make any money. Most of the folks in my current profession usually need to hold down two to three different jobs (which are usually on call). Some of the clients can be violent, and consider being spit at on a regular basis. Most of the clients are not really cured they are managed. It seems like a revolving door. In nursing you have many oppurtunites to care for a lot of different people and actually SEE them get better! Then again if you are a school psychologist you only have a certain group of kids that will graduate and then you will get new kids. Different faces same problems! In my area of the country PA, a lot of the jobs within the school systems tend to be who you know and not what you know. A lot of the jobs in MH tend to be dead end and a psych degree does not offer a lot of flexability. I feel the world is your oyster having the RN or BSN, and having a psychology background I feel is a nice compliment to the nursing degree. The bottom line is only you can choose what you want. I am choosing to get out of the MH field because I need to find something that is more satisfying and I feel nursing is what will do it for me!!

Well I have my bachelors in psych, been in the MH field for 11 yrs, and now back to school for my BSN. Choose wisely. All of these previous posts state a lot of "truths" about the professions. Psych tends to require more schooling for less money, most states only really value a degree in social work and with the degree in psych one usually needs to go on for their doctorate if you want to make any money. Most of the folks in my current profession usually need to hold down two to three different jobs (which are usually on call). Some of the clients can be violent, and consider being spit at on a regular basis. Most of the clients are not really cured they are managed. It seems like a revolving door. In nursing you have many oppurtunites to care for a lot of different people and actually SEE them get better! Then again if you are a school psychologist you only have a certain group of kids that will graduate and then you will get new kids. Different faces same problems! In my area of the country PA, a lot of the jobs within the school systems tend to be who you know and not what you know. A lot of the jobs in MH tend to be dead end and a psych degree does not offer a lot of flexability. I feel the world is your oyster having the RN or BSN, and having a psychology background I feel is a nice compliment to the nursing degree. The bottom line is only you can choose what you want. I am choosing to get out of the MH field because I need to find something that is more satisfying and I feel nursing is what will do it for me!!

Hi Everyone! I am in a part time accelerated 2yr program to earn my BSN. I have a B.S. in psychology and I am employed full time as a mental health crisis worker. I have been on this website before just browsing the topics but this particular one tonight made me compelled to be a registered user so I can reply. I understand to certain degree all the stressors that come with nursing due to the fact that I work closely with the ER nurses in my job. However after reading these posts I am starting to question am I doing the right thing? I enjoy working with people, when I was three yrs. old being a nurse was my first career aspiration!:) I hear so much frustration in these posts and I can relate because I have the same gripes in my present job (working short staff due to budget cuts, working 16 hr days sometimes 40 hrs in three days, uppermgt thinking they know what is best, the list can go on)! I decided to go back to school because I really needed a career change. Perhaps I am going from the frying pan into the fire! Or just maybe I've become that much more prepared to become a nurse! Either way I hope we can all try to find a happy balance that our jobs, whatever they are, do not make us ill.