On the Job:
While on the job as a mental-health nurse, you can find yourself treating and prescribing medications to people with diseases such as schizophrenia, eating disorders, Alzheimer's, bi-polar disorder, depression, and anxiety disorders. You may also be counseling the patient and family, evaluating progress, and taking therapeutic measures as well as giving care to the person as a whole.
How to Get There:
- First of all, you would need to attend a college or university where you would
need to obtain a masters or doctorate degree in advanced practical nursing with
a focus on psychology. - You would need to become licensed through your state, and you would also need to
be licensed in psychiatric nursing through the American Nurses Credentialing
Center. - You would then need to have two-five years of training in the field.
Salaries:
Being a mental-health nurse you would be making
$44,190-$95,130 Starting as an RN (on your way to becoming a Mental-Health Nurse while in school)
$61,277-$110,738 as an RN with a Master of Science in Nursing
$57,000-$119,000 as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner.
Wage can increase or decrease with experience, education and location.
$44,190-$95,130 Starting as an RN (on your way to becoming a Mental-Health Nurse while in school)
$61,277-$110,738 as an RN with a Master of Science in Nursing
$57,000-$119,000 as a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner.
Wage can increase or decrease with experience, education and location.
Research Opportunities, Traveling, and Moving
As a Mental-Health Nurse there are many different research opportunities available because of the wide variety of patients that you deal with.
You could be researching: Best Treatments for ANY disorder, living with any disease, and coping methods.
When traveling to another country to work, there would be things you would have to do to work there, legally. Depending on the country you may have curses you need to take, and other licensing you would have to obtain, along with a working visa.
You could be researching: Best Treatments for ANY disorder, living with any disease, and coping methods.
When traveling to another country to work, there would be things you would have to do to work there, legally. Depending on the country you may have curses you need to take, and other licensing you would have to obtain, along with a working visa.
Related Jobs:
Related I the field of Mental-Health Nurses, there are en extreme wide variety including:
Nurses (of any type)
Psychologists
Mental Health Councelors
Nurses (of any type)
Psychologists
Mental Health Councelors
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