starcatcher

Hey guys, I've been in clinical practice as a psych APRN for almost 3 years, prior to that I worked in the public health field for 3 years and after the past 6 years, I think I'm done with clinical work. I've had two psych APRN jobs in my time and I kept thinking that the reason I didn't really enjoy either one was that they weren't the right jobs for me, but I'm thinking that maybe I'm just not a clinical type of girl, so I'm thinking that transitioning into an administration or educator job might be a better fit. I always wanted to be a teacher and I currently teach childbirth classes (yes, I know NOTHING to do with my psych training) and have previously taught prenatal and lactation courses as well, and I really enjoy teaching. I also get to be involved ins one structural issues, program management and building/expansion in my current position, I really enjoy the meetings and data collection and processing. However, I'm not sure of how to go about making this move. Any of you who have done this have any advise? I don't have an admin or education degree and I don't have any formal experience in either field, outside of the few co-workers I supervise in my current position and the occasional educational presentation I give. Is there anything I can do to give myself a leg up? Anything I shouldn't do? Any help would be great. I'm just burned out and unhappy working with patients every day and I don't like feeling this way at all!

Hi all, I'm wondering if any of you have any information/experience with the parent-child CNS certification. I have looked on this site for information and I found one previous thread, but unfortunately it didn't really explain much about the certification, so I thought I'd ask again. I currently work as a Family Psych NP, but because of the nature of the population I work with, I do a lot of family planning education, as well as early childhood attachment and development work with parents and I'd really like to get some more education in those fields, so I started looking at parent-child CNS and perinatal CNS programs, thinking they might be my best bets. Unfortunately the only perinatal program I could find on the west coast is in Seattle, a bit too far away for me. However, I live in southern California and there happen to be two parent-child CNS post-masters programs in the area, one at Cal State DH and one at Azusa Pacific, but even the university websites are surprisingly vague in terms of discussing the real meat of their parent-child programs! So I'm really working on very little information here... Is anyone out there a parent-child CNS, or have you heard of one in your places of work or are you looking to become one yourself? Any information anyone has would be really appreciated. Thanks!