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Hunter College MSN PMHNP

Stony Brook University MSN PMHNP

Anyone applied here? Anyone has information?

I'm interested in these programs highly. My BSN GPA is low 3. Not much experience in psych nursing but I'm interested in PMHNP to work with psychic population.

Please help.

Thanks.

Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.
Not much experience in psych nursing but I'm interested in PMHNP to work with psychic population.

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Seriously get some. There is no shortage of new psych NPs who have no freaking clue as to how to diagnose or prescribe for mental health patients which is a grave disservice to this vulnerable population. That the shortage of providers is touted as an acceptable rationale for not require actual experience, and NO your 3 years on ICU dealing with crazy people does not count, is ridiculous and will end up resulting not only in a poor quality of care but also a decline in our wages. Please consider what you are doing before you shell out thousands of dollars and years of your time.

As for your actual question :) I have no information about either of those schools but with the current state of nursing all you need to do is have the ability to fog up a mirror if held close under your nose and pony up a credit card for the tuition and you can be in any APRN nursng program your little heart desires. :(

Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.
Hunter College MSN PMHNP

Stony Brook University MSN PMHNP

Anyone applied here? Anyone has information?

I'm interested in these programs highly. My BSN GPA is low 3. Not much experience in psych nursing but I'm interested in PMHNP to work with psychic population.

Please help.

Thanks.

I would be so uncomfortable working with a bunch of psychics. All that ESPN buzzing around & all.....

Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.
I would be so uncomfortable working with a bunch of psychics. All that ESPN buzzing around & all.....

ROFL! I talk about my gift of ESPN all the time! We might have run in similar circles at some point.

Any psychiatric NP to drop a line here?

Can lack of inpatient psychic nursing experience hinder if I'm going to work at an outpatient clinic? I have talked with psychic patients in my primary care clinic daily with anxiety, ADHD, depression, and more.

Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

Moved to the Student NP forum for more replies.

Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.
Can lack of inpatient psychic nursing experience hinder if I'm going to work at an outpatient clinic? I have talked with psychic patients in my primary care clinic daily with anxiety, ADHD, depression, and more.

Although there are the rare exceptions I'd say yes ABSOLUTELY. The first hand experience of becoming familiar with the types of meds, doses, patient presentations so you can actually diagnose a patient accurately that you will get from working inpatient is invaluable imo. The cross overs between SUD, BiPAD, Cluster B as one example are often rather subtle and yet crucial for someone who is about to hand out medications. Unfortunately the schools don't seem to feel that way, mmmmm, wonder if finances have anything to do with that?

How is allowing people enter into Entry to practice RN BSN-MSN combined program justified for people without any experience to get education and clinical and start practicing right after graduation as FNP, PNP, or PMHNP? I know I need psych or more clinical experience in nursing but cannot wait to start NP program...

I agree more experience is the best way.

Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.
How is allowing people enter into Entry to practice RN BSN-MSN combined program justified for people without any experience to get education and clinical and start practicing right after graduation as FNP, PNP, or PMHNP? I know I need psych or more clinical experience in nursing but cannot wait to start NP program...

So if I understood your first question correctly the answer might be....Hmmmm let me think of all the possibilities: The money??? Just saying.

As for your last comment "but cannot wait to start NP program" do some soul searching is it really "cannot wait"? or is it "I'm really excited and am looking forward to becoming a NP?" If its the later as I suspect it would be so much more worthwhile to postpone instant gratification and take the route that will increase your odds of actually being competent and hopefully good at your new job. You will not only make some income in the meantime as you work as a RN, ensure that you even like this field and have an affinity for it before investing years and a crap ton of money. Check out the Medscape survey on NP satisfaction its unfortunate, imo, there NPs who aren't happy in their jobs and yet are making no plans to change for whatever reason.

Best wishes with whatever you decide.

Specializes in ICU, trauma, neuro.

While I agree that more experience can be beneficial I'm don't believe that it should be mandatory or that is necessarily produces superior results. Consider for example the many studies that show NP's provide equivalent or even superior care to MD's in primary care. No one can argue, but that most MD's have substantially greater experience and education in terms of residency hours ect. However, this doesn't always translate to superior or even equivalent results in terms of outcomes. In many ways I believe that I may have been at my nursing zenith on my second or third year in the ICU. Sure, I've gained many years of experience since, but my rabid pursuit of 1000's of medical and journal articles since roughly the age of 12 has been supplanted with "my God can i simply make it through the night lifting another 400 pound patient without a tech or help, and survive the trauma doctor rounding and day-shift report with my job, license and back intact". I work for the largest for profit hospital chain which often seems to approach patient care like some states do oil fracking, a resource to be exploited without regard to the cost. I long for the days when I worked "overflow" (before ICU) with my three to four suicidal "Baker Act" patients. Sure they might try to run off, stab, or urinate on me, but at least it wasn't usually passive aggressive.

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