Brink48

I graduate in May with my BSN. I absolutely loved my rotation at a Children Psych stand alone unit. I plan to do my preceptorship there during my last semester. I would like to work there when I graduate, I feel that's where I would enjoy working the most...the ultimate goal being a Psych NP. The only thing making me hesitate is people telling me I need Med Surg experience out of school in cases I get tired of Psych. I also have had people tell me that it's not great pay, although this unit and others I have seen pay just as much as the other Med Surg units in my town. Will I really have trouble getting a job if I for some reason get out of psych? I feel that I will just be starting where everyone else has, just later on. The hospital will teach me most of the skills/orientation. I feel like that is where I belong, but these things have me hesitant, should I be?

Job situation in my area is extremely good. I could get a job at any of the two hospitals in my city and the mental health facility right after graduation. I don't know of any Seniors last year that didn't get a job instantly after passing the NCLEX

I graduate with my BSN in 6 months or so and I am dead set on being a psych nurse. I like everything about it. I have finished my psych clinicals and have even shadowed on my own. Plan on applying to a child/adolescent facility after I graduate. My worry is what happens if I somehow lose my job, fired, or they close? Am I going to have trouble finding a job in a med surg type job with only psych experience? I have had some people tell me to do a year or two of med surg when you graduate and then go do psych, but I am so excited to start working psych right away.... What do you think?

Congrats! It was one of the most exciting times in my life learning that I was accepted.

Yep in nursing there is a ton of ways to make more at the end of the year.

The reason you don't do well on tests is because you barely study...

I felt like the actual nursing classes were easier than my pre-reqs. I feel like nursing school is a lot more busy work.

As long as the code hasn't been used you should be good.

I like it! I have heard others say nothing but good things about it.

Chemistry math wasn't hard as I thought it would be.

Your age shouldn't be an issue. Your GPA is where you might have some problems depending on what schools you will be applying schools. I know some schools average applicant GPA is like a 3.7 in some parts of the country and others it can be lower. I have seen people get into schools with 3.0's. It's all gonna depend on the applicant pool and what GPA your potential schools usually accept.

All of my teachers for pre-req classes would round up if needed. My nursing school does not round up no matter what.

I made multiple C's in pre-reqs and got accepted into the 2/2 nursing schools in which I applied.

How about not doing illegal drugs if you're going into a trusted profession?

Congrats!