Help Please! Diversification not Specialization.

I've been an RN w/ BSN for almost 10 years now. I've worked in Surgery, specifically Cardiothoracic and Neuro, as well as all the other specialties. When I say "Surgery" I mean the whole Peri-operative experience, including preop and PACU. I've assisted Anesthesia and scrubbed. I've worked in IR, placed PICC lines, performed thousands of conscious/moderate sedations, and assisted with paracentesis, thoracentesis lung and liver biopsies, etc. I have run the C-arm when the Rad Tech was either unavailable or too "distracted" to do so. And I love it all and I love learning new skills. My worst fear is that I'll become bored!

Even though I love doing these things, none of these skills are visible on my badge. If you see NP, CNS, or CRNA, you know that these people function with an expanded role. The brass ring for me would be CRNA, but there are no schools in my state (IN) and I have a family, so moving is not an option (so says my wife, LOL). I started a Master's, but the available options for study and the way I would be utilized after completion are not for me. I like to "do" and MSN's seem to be used mostly administratively. I don't scrub enough to maintain a RNFA (and I wouldn't be compensated for it anyway) and I have no desire to work in an office as an NP. I'm frustrated with trying to decide what the next phase of my career will be or, rather, how to collect all the things I can do now into some credential that is MINE--independent of a hospital organization--that doesn't require me to obtain and maintain 3 or 4 different certifications, for which I will never be compensated.

Any info or advice is appreciated--even if you have to tell me to just get a big box of tissues and cry it out
Quote from RNJohnny23I've been an RN w/ BSN for almost 10 years now. I've worked in Surgery, specifically Cardiothoracic and Neuro, as well as all the other specialties. When I say "Surgery" I mean the whole Peri-operative experience, including preop and PACU. I've assisted Anesthesia and scrubbed. I've worked in IR, placed PICC lines, performed thousands of conscious/moderate sedations, and assisted with paracentesis, thoracentesis lung and liver biopsies, etc. I have run the C-arm when the Rad Tech was either unavailable or too "distracted" to do so. And I love it all and I love learning new skills. My worst fear is that I'll become bored!Even though I love doing these things, none of these skills are visible on my badge. If you see NP, CNS, or CRNA, you know that these people function with an expanded role. The brass ring for me would be CRNA, but there are no schools in my state (IN) and I have a family, so moving is not an option (so says my wife, LOL). I started a Master's, but the available options for study and the way I would be utilized after completion are not for me. I like to "do" and MSN's seem to be used mostly administratively. I don't scrub enough to maintain a RNFA (and I wouldn't be compensated for it anyway) and I have no desire to work in an office as an NP. I'm frustrated with trying to decide what the next phase of my career will be or, rather, how to collect all the things I can do now into some credential that is MINE--independent of a hospital organization--that doesn't require me to obtain and maintain 3 or 4 different certifications, for which I will never be compensated.Any info or advice is appreciated--even if you have to tell me to just get a big box of tissues and cry it out