Another nurse here reporting in...

I worked nearly twenty years in Open Heart Recovery and loved the clinical challenges but I especially enjoyed teaching and research.

I am disabled now but really wish I could get my master's and be a research associate because I love technical writing and love learning medical/nursing stuff so that is my dream job.

If that intersts you would need a bachelor's in nursing and I am not sure what the masters would be in. I was going to go talk to somebody in the department and inquire but it would be easier for me to start teaching ACLS classes again because I did that for ten years and loved it but I need to update myself on what the current standards of care are. I need to get off my butt and go to the medical library.

Another really well paying option in nursing is nursing anesthesia. Again a four year degree (mine wasn't a nursing BSN but a BA and I was accepted but it probably depends on the school. I declined because while the program was only two years it was time intensive and my son was four and I didn't want to be gone so much during those important years}. There is a lot of science but it sounds as though you have some of that in your program.

Best of luck