Psychiatric/Behavioral Health Nurse
Duties and Responsibilities: As a psychiatric on the U.S health care team, you will be working with some of the finest minds in medicine who are employing groundbreaking protocols and treatments in key psychiatric issues to address the unique challenges that our service men and women face. They can conduct patient counseling, crisis intervention, medication management, group therapy as well as other things. They can also serve as an expert educator, adviser and consultant on mental health issues to department chiefs and staff.

Salary: The typical U.S army psychiatric is $249,407. Psychiatric salaries usually range from $204,596-276,499. The average cash bonus is around $27,000.

Education: If you are on active duty the requirements are a bachelor's degree in nursing accredited by the ACEN, CCNE or accepted by the U.S secretary of education. If you are on army reserve the requirements are a minimum of a baccalaureate degree, associate degree or diploma in nursing from an accredited nursing school.

Demand for this particular career: The strength of the army has been gradually increasing. To mentally train these candidates and to treat those who have been damaged by stress of war, military psychiatric and needed to diagnose and treat military personnel. The expertise of military psychiatrics is most needed.

Reflection: Do you think you would like to be this? Why? Why not?

I think that i would like this career. You get to help those who have helped the country in which you lived. They risk their lives so i would like to give back to those. It also seems like a good job that isn’t going to be boring. Also it is good paying.