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The best and worst states to be a psychiatric nurse in 2012

Where the salary, cost of living and lifestyle equate to good living
You don’t necessarily want or need to live in a state that has a super-low cost of living. Sure, the basic necessities of life need to be affordable in relation to your salary, because that enables you to also save some money and gain financial security. But you also have to live where there are opportunities to build a rich life for yourself. Ideally, you want to live where there are activities that interest you, clubs or associations that you want to join, and opportunities for you to enjoy the arts or nature or any hobbies you have.

These are the types of away-from-work pursuits that will help you build a circle of friends and develop a social life, which you need in order to be happy. No matter how dedicated you are to the profession of psychiatric nursing, don’t think that you can simply immerse yourself in your work; you need to have a life, too.

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Cynthia Dusseault

Cynthia Dusseault is a professional freelance writer with both a health and an education background. A former medical radiation technologist and elementary school teacher, she realized that no matter what she did, she was drawn to any task that involved writing, so she decided, over a decade ago, to write full-time. Since then, she has written for a variety of magazines and websites including Nursing PRN, National Review of Medicine, University Affairs, Your Health, Education Leaders Today, Today's Parent, Children's Playmate, WeightWatchers.ca and many more. She has written about topics such as asthma, genital herpes, circumcision, teleradiology, body art, learning disabilities and exercise trends, and she absolutely adores the fact that writing—particularly doing the research for the articles she writes—makes her a lifelong learner.