stickit34

stickit34

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stickit34 has 5 years experience and specializes in Pediatrics.


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  1. For-Profit NP admissions... I thought they were joking!

    Boards seek the absolute minimum for entry-level practice, which is a 65% or better on the exams. To me, 65% is failing, and not "weeding out" people who do not know what they're doing. What's more, the examinations themselves are a joke, having almo...
  2. Questionable practices?

    Thank you everyone. Unfortunately I still with this practice, but I was able to convince them to credential me through CAQHC. However, there are also numerous other problems with overall practice. They don't provide cleansing towlettes for urine spec...
  3. Questionable practices?

    Hello everyone, So I accepted a job in a private pediatric office, and had my "orientation" yesterday. I put quotations marks in there because it wasn't an orientation at all. Instead, it was the office manager sitting around and gossiping while I wa...
  4. For-Profit NP admissions... I thought they were joking!

    This disturbs me. It's hard enough to promote the profession amongst other healthcare providers, but when you have schools like this accepting and pumping out students who should not have been accepted in the first place (not towards you, OP) is abso...
  5. How much debt would you go into for NP school?

    I paid completely out of pocket by working overtime and living with my parents haha. It totaled to $42,000. Private university.
  6. Minimum Scores for Boards

    I have passed ANCC at 88%. While I agree that passing is passing in the eyes of the certifying body, do you still agree that practitioners are at the same degree of competency whether they passed at 65% or 88%? Personally having gone through several ...
  7. Why pediatrics?

    1) Kids hate being sick. 2) They never give up (sometimes good, sometimes bad haha) 3) I love family-centered care and sometimes healing the whole family, not just the child. 4) I love the raw emotion that I get from them. Most of the time they don'...
  8. Hello everyone, I just recently graduated from my FNP program and just today passed the ANCC!! My RN resume consists mainly of pediatric primary care, and I truly desire to work in this population. I am fortunate enough to live near CHOP and Nemours,...
  9. Minimum Scores for Boards

    I guess I find it disturbing that there is such a low passing score for both board certification exams for FNPs, and I see and hear so many students fail one exam or both exams. It makes me think about what quality of an education they're receiving a...
  10. Minimum Scores for Boards

    I do find that funny. My program required a B to pass, and anything less would result in dismissal from the program. But when it comes to national certification, a basically failing score is acceptable. I don't understand how it can be acceptable, or...
  11. Minimum Scores for Boards

    Hello, I was speaking with family members the other day about my board certification exam. I plan to take the ANCC for FNP and have been studying diligently for it. A family member asked what the minimum score for passing was, and I said I was not su...
  12. Brave or just stupid?

    We don't think highly of our training because it is severely lacking already without people entering into direct-entry programs getting ready to prescribe to human beings, especially the most critically ill. I've said it numerous times, and other hav...
  13. Brave or just stupid?

    I would highly suggest you pursue a PA path, and here's why. NP schools are already lacking in education in terms of pathophysiology, pharmacology, science courses, clinical hours, etc. Add to this the lack of RN experience and you have a recipe for ...
  14. Argument against full practice authority

    Thank you everyone for your response! Pro-student, I have to agree with you on some points in that there does seem to be a pattern with NPs. I have also noticed that a majority of NPs tend to specialize, just like physicians, and most tend to serve i...
  15. Argument against full practice authority

    Please read this article: Nurses are not physicians What are your thoughts? I've seen similar posts and arguments on PA and physician forums as well as in their associations. What do you think helps or hurts our argument for full practice authority?