Sooo...What are you doing with your MSN?

My name probably gives it away!! I teach full time, have been teaching for 5 years and I love it. My masters is in nursing education, so that was my intent from the beginning. I work (that job) 3 days a week, but do prep at home (and may need to go in on days I am not teaching, if something is going on). I also work per diem in the hospital, and adjunct at my previous job. Weekends, holidays and summers OFF!

im still a pre-nursing student and wanted to eventually get my masters (i know, a long way off!)

im also curious about what a lot of nurses did with their masters

I want to get my MSN "just because"...but I can't justify the cost because I love my schedule now, I make enough as a staff nurse working 2 days a week to live and travel. I just don't know what I'd do with a master's since I don't want to teach (staff education is another story; I'd be up for that minus their cruddy schedule). Admin - bad schedule, too much nonsense to deal with, but it also interests me.

I'm an NP and currently work in pre-admissions testing. I see patients who are scheduled for elective surgeries - I do their history and physicals, order appropriate tests (labs, EKGs, X-rays), interpret them, order consults if need be (cardiac, pulmonary, etc), and then I discuss difficult cases with the anesthesiologists who are my collaborating physicians.

Full time faculty in an ADN program..

Full time faculty in ADN program. My MSN is in nursing education and teaching was always my goal. I am also curious as to what exactly encompasses an evidence-based practice MSN.

Thanks to everyone for their responses! I'd love to hear more stories of what people are doing with their MSNs. I've attached the description of the program of study. I also emailed my advisor to ask for some specific examples of what students have done with the evidence-based track after graduation.

The evidence based nursing track focuses on developing advanced generalist nursing practice in a focused area of study, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration, fostering life-long learning, and prepares students for the leading edge of health care knowledge and delivery. Students strengthen knowledge and skills in clinical decision-making, application of nursing interventions, and ability to critique and appropriately use evidence as a foundation for practice. In this graduate track, students study nursing as an applied discipline advancing their knowledge of theoretical perspectives for clinical practice, with an emphasis on leadership, the cultural, social and political context of health and illness, and quality improvement methodologies. Students are mentored in the enactment of leadership strategies to improve quality care in nursing practice through an intensive clinical practicum.