So I have a bachelors in nursing right now and been working for little over a year. I am trying to decide what I want to go back to school for. GPA in undergrad was like ~3.2. Writing is not my favorite thing to do. Will I survive business school coming from a non business degree?
MBA seems to be hit or miss. You could end up with a worthless degree that cost you tens of thousands and years of work.
you'll survive if you go back with a reason and an interest in something that you can learn about at school (even if it's something like general management).. at least that's what it seems like so far. getting a bachelors in nursing is probably more than adequate to prepare you for the difficulty level of this stuff (though it's a different type of learning obviously) if that's what you're worried about
Why do you want to quit nursing anyways? My cousin and his wife are nurses. He was an EMT and then got his RN. they both make tons of cash and can basically move anywhere in the country they want.
MBA is the easiest of professional schools. Just don't be brain dead and you will make it through B-school. If you get an MBA along with your nursing degree you can climb the ranks in your nursing position quite well. But a master's in health care or the likes probably holds more value if you want to remain in nursing.
I don't love bedside nursing enough to do it long term. I figured getting a Masters when I am young (25) would be the right move to go further up the ladder. Before I did bachelors in nursing I thought about computer engineering, pharmacy, and physician assistant. Now I am at the same place. I have thought about health informatics (narrow field..job opportunities with lack of IT background), nurse practitioner (repeat of nursing decision?), CRNA (need ICU experience) etc.
Get an MBA with a focus on healthcare / biotech. Take some entrepreneurial classes teaming up with some of he other graduate programs to create a business plan based on a biotech product. Learn about venture capitalists. Move to silicon valley or Boston and join a healthcare focused vc. Make millions backing next decade google of the world. Buy a yacht and retire. The end. Even if it doesn't end up like that, healthcare focused MBA would be a solid degree at this point.
You also might want to look at a masters in Health Care Administration. Or just go for your NP...it's considered a master's degree and you can write scripts (my cousin is doing this now).
I am currently getting my MBA (with a non-business undergrad) and I'd say about 80% of my fellow students are engineers or some other non-business undergrad degree. You'll be just fine.
I doubt you'd have any trouble getting your MBA, even without a business background. I'm finishing up a 5-year accounting BBA/MBA program this year, and in my experience my senior (maybe even junior) year accounting course work was considerably harder than anything I've done in the general MBA classes I've taken so far. You just need to make sure business school it's worth the time and money you're going to invest into it.
I would hold off on getting your MBA. Tons of MBA's are not getting jobs because of limited hiring and the fact that lots of people went to grad school when the economy tanked, hoping it would turn around once they finished. Now they are stuck without a job and an extra $90k in debt. Be careful
maybe a masters of public health? could work for 10 years at the department of state health services or department of health of human services and retire with state benefits. that would be administrative program type work that would keep you from bedsides and still keep you in the health/medical related field. from there, you could move into private health industry.
I've read several articles saying informatics and CRNA will be the top-paying nursing fields. Every hospital I did my clinicals at had someone in or filling in the informatics role. I also know the military is in the process of creating an MOS specifically for nursing informatics. Everything I've seen says informatics is about to blow up. Getting into it now could be very lucrative.
Anyone know anything about the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown? My undergrad background is in Finance and Econ, I have 3+ years of consulting experience, and I'm looking into this program for my Masters, rather than an MBA. Any thoughts?
Seriously...you are worried about not doing well in an MBA program without having a BBA first? MBA's are not hard and BBA's are pretty useless and generally produce poor students. Don't do grad school just because you don't know what to do and unless med or law you should generally avoid paying for grad school. That is debt you won't always be able to pay off.
