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

Here are our two top picks for states you should explore if you’re a psychiatric nurse thinking of making a move:

Virginia: Salaries for psychiatric nurses are high here and jobs are abundant. The state is beautiful, with plenty of history and culture. The arts are big here. Often rated as one of the best states to raise children, Virginia offers tons of activities for all ages to make life rich. You’ve got the coast, the Blue Ridge Mountains and fascinating cities like Richmond and Norfolk.

Texas: It offers a balance of exciting large cities like Houston and Dallas, and delightful smaller ones like San Antonio and Austin. House prices are low, there are great colleges and universities for your children, and there’s the beautiful Gulf Coast to escape to for some rest and relaxation when you need it. Salaries are relatively high, although they didn’t quite make the highest salary list at the beginning of this article, and jobs for psychiatric nurses are abundant here, so you can choose the city or town that appeals to you the most.

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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.