Future of Nursing
Nursing was your dream. As a child, you couldn’t imagine a nobler life of service to others. When you had your appendix out at age 11 that time, the nurses were like mothers, only better. They took away pain and left love in its place. And that was when you decided that nursing was all you ever wanted to do.
Now you are grown. You have your BSN. The other nurses and many doctors all say that you are excellent at what you do. You are an RN, you earned your childhood dream. You are a good nurse, a mind person, a mother to the sufferers in your care. Your BSN prepared you to provide general health care services.
But, more and more, you want to step up to a more technical nursing expertise— anesthesia, for instance. You want the hands-on experience of helping save lives in the operating room, in the crucible of daily drama where life and death battles take place daily, hourly. You crave another, higher level of care, beyond your R.N.
Perhaps you realize that you could make a difference if you were able to rise to a director’s position. You realize that could better support the other nurses, and help them support their patients. There are so many changes you would make, if you had the position, and the power that would go along with it.
For your BSN, you trained in technology, you developed communication skills with patients, and when you graduated, you found yourself—- even in a bad economy— to be in high demand. You studied pharmacology, anatomy, fluids and electrolytes, dosage calculations, psychology, child growth and development, and microbiology. You had on-site experience at the county hospital in your city. And now you are well-established in your nursing profession.
And yet… and yet, still you feel the need for more. Every day at the hospital, you see so many specialized areas of nursing that would take you to the next level of care, and usefulness.
Getting your MSN is your direct pathway to that higher level of your childhood dream. Your RN to MSN degree opens the door to anesthesia, health care education, administration and management, advance practice nursing, and many other specialized fields of Master’s level nursing.
Also, your Master’s Degree becomes the threshold requirement for a nursing doctoral program, should you want the credentials to join the faculty at many teaching institutions.
Three years study is typical to complete a RN to MSN program, in line with CCNE and NLNAC standards. Advanced nursing courses may include very specific areas of pathophysiology, pharmacology, health care management, and health care policy.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), www.bls.gov, studies show that R.N.’s with advanced degrees are in continued high demand. Advanced practice nurses— such as clinical nurse specialists, CRNA nurse anesthetists, nurse-midwives, and nurse practitioners— are some of the super-stars of this job market.
CRNA’s may average 150K. Take a look at these other MSN incomes (as reported by www.salary.com)—
Nursing Home Rehabilitation Director: $76,502 – $87,028 per year
Nursing Director: $91,074 – $119,872 per year
Nursing Education Director: $83,847 – $113,486 per year
And, I know, it isn’t only the high salary and job security, that drives you.
Building your knowledge to nurse, higher and deeper, is building your ability to relief suffering. That in itself, as Mother Teresa herself so eloquently said, is a labor of love.
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