选择适合自己的职业道路
Both nursing and psychology represent careers where you are equipped to help people—but in very different ways. 每一条道路都需要独特的技能和教育才能取得成功.
Our goal is to help you find the career path you’ve always wanted, regardless of who you are now or where you want to be 在未来. 这包括:
- 新生们决定了新职业道路上的第一步
- 正在考虑换专业的学生
- 考虑过渡到心理学领域的护士
- Professionals with a psychology degree considering the field of nursing
We’ve summarized some of the most important things to consider if you’re weighing careers in psychology vs. nursing.
1. 工作机会范围
There’s a big difference in potential job outcomes between undergraduate degrees in psychology and nursing.
Earning a 心理学学士学位 can potentially help you qualify for many different types of entry-level jobs. 其中一些比较常见 如果你有心理学学士学位，你可能会从事的工作 包括社区和社会服务, 管理, 教育教学, 医疗专业人员, 以及办公室和行政支持类职业.
如果你毕业时成绩是 护理学理学士，有一个主要的工作成果: 注册护士(注册护士). While there are many specialty career paths you may consider as an RN afterwards, 这是一切开始的地方.
The immediate variety of job possibilities with a bachelor’s degree is wider in psychology than nursing. A psychology degree provides a strong foundation to pursue career paths in many potential areas, 包括行为健康, business, 技术, 公共安全, 法律研究, and more.
2. 抽象和. 学习和实践的有形性质
The state of a person’s mental health can’t be revealed in an x-ray or blood test. 一个人的心理状态是无法切入和检查的.
While there is certainly potential room for interpretation and nothing “easy” about clinical nursing practice, diagnosis and treatment typically deals in hard physical science and objectivity. 心理学 introduces subjectivity and space for interpretation you may find more frustrating than fascinating. 或者相反!
If your passion is for analyzing how humans think more than how they work, 你可能更喜欢心理学方面的教育 to pursue all the different job possibilities requiring that skillset.
However, if you enjoy biology and are passionate about learning how the human body works—and have the stomach for medical procedures and the general hospital environment—nursing can be a very good fit.
3. 教育需求
要成为注册会计师，您需要首先获得BSN或BSN 护理学副学士 in order to take the certification exam and meet the board of nursing requirements in your state to become licensed.
A bachelor’s degree in psychology does not translate to licensure or certification eligibility for a single type of job. Degree requirements for licensure or certification can be commonly found at higher degree levels. 例如, 你可能需要 to earn a master’s or doctoral degree to become a licensed psychologist in your state.
However, the knowledge and skills you develop in an undergraduate psychology degree program are applicable and beneficial for many different types of jobs in several categories.
一般来说, degree requirements are more clearly defined in nursing than careers aligned with a bachelor’s degree in psychology.
4. 未来的专业领域
随着你事业的发展， the fields of psychology and nursing can potentially diverge in several possible directions.
The psychology degree pathway can help you begin a career in behavioral health, 社会服务, 或医疗. 你可能会选择追求 社会工作硕士 or 医疗管理理学硕士 在未来. It can also potentially kickstart your career in areas such as business and 技术, 并最终导致 MBA课程 培养你在商业领导和管理方面的敏锐度.
如果你选择攻读本科护理学位, your future pathways are more restricted to the nursing field—but there’s still ample opportunity to discover different areas of interest, 包括心理学.
一个很好的组合
If you are sold on nursing but don’t want to abandon psychology altogether, 对你来说，最好的方法可能是 成为精神科精神健康执业护士(PMHNP).
These are advanced practice nurses who provide mental health counseling and consulting to address a patient’s whole health rather than only physical health. 你首先需要获得a 护理学位，然后报名参加 PMHNP程序 在未来, as a 理学硕士 of Nursing (MSN) is required to become a certified PMHNP.
在Herzing大学找到你的使命
We exist to help you earn the education you need to find success and satisfaction in your work. 无论你是倾向于护理学还是心理学, 软件下载有潜在的学位途径供您迈出第一步.
Our admissions advisors are always available to help you decide and begin planning your educational pathway to a brighter future.
在Herzing大学发现最适合你的职业道路
*美国劳工统计局(BLS).S. 劳工部, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics 2023 / Occupational Outlook Handbook 2022. 劳工统计局的估计不代表入门级工资和/或薪水. 多种因素, 包括之前的经验, age, 你想要工作的地理市场和学位领域, 会影响职业成果和收入吗. Herzing neither represents that its graduates will earn the average salaries calculated by BLS for a particular job nor guarantees that graduation from its program will result in a job, promotion, 加薪或其他职业发展.
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