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I think this depends on where you work. I had 6 mos experience of med/surg before going into psych. 15 years later and I still haven't looked back. I've had past co workers who were psych nurses and in between worked in all sorts of other settings keeping all of those medical skills. For myself, even though I worked all psych, I still used my medical skills because the one hospital admitted some seriously medically complex people (high risk pregnancy, 3rd degree burns...not to mention heart disease and diabetes and renal failure). If this is the route you want to take, I say go for it. Good luck. We can use more good nurses