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Hey everyone, just graduated with a bachelor of science-nursing and am headed to a psych mental health nurse practitioner master's program in the fall. It will take me two years. I've been an undergrad worker on various psych research studies and while I was not at all passionate about the grit work of research (coding, data entry, organization), lately I have been realizing that there is a lot of stuff I want to study. I'm becoming more interested in doing my own research. However, I can't see myself sitting in an office looking at a computer all day long. I'd like to practice as an NP much of the time and do some research on the side. I'm trying to decide if I should go for a PhD in nursing, but my real passions are family systems theory and addiction studies. Does anyone have any insight into a good route I could take to further my interest in these areas? Would a PhD in nursing be best, or should I be looking more at a PhD in psychology? Or is the whole thing sort of "pie in the sky"... would be best to stick with the NP route and is it somehow possible to pursue these interests as a master's prepared NP?