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This is a good idea.:) to have a Graduate Student Nurse Forum. :)

I am in a FNP program, will graduate in May '06. My background is critical care (13 yrs), but there are no ANP programs in my area, and I didn't want to do it online.

I do not particularly like family practice and hope to get a job with a specialist when I graduate. That seems to be the trend here. Most of the NPs working with the specialist have their FNP and just use their prior nursing specialty experience to get in with a specialist.

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This new forum will meet the needs of grad students...come on in guys!

Hey everyone! I am currently working as a staff RN on a cardiac telemetry unit. I have my BSN and will be starting the NP program this fall. I am enrolled in the family nurse practitioner program, but am still not 100% convinced that I want to do that as opposed to acute care nurse practitioner.

A couple of questions:

(1) Does anyone know which track is generally more preferred when applying for NP positions?

(2) Any information on why one might be better/worse than the other?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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Trauma,

Each state is different, you will need to see what programs (FNP vs ANP) the other NPs in your area went through, and what kind of positions they are getting.

I am also wondering how easy (or difficult) it would be to get a post-master's for ANP when I finish the FNP program, anyone know?

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Specializes in ICU, ER, HH, NICU, now FNP.

My question is - why would you want to add ANP to FNP? I could see adding family to adult so that you could take care of kids too if you wanted to, but as an FNP, you are already prepared to treat adult and geriatric patients.

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When I say ANP I am referring to acute nurse practitioner, not adult nurse practitioner. With FNP I am mainly focusing on internal or general practice. I think I may have more opportunities if I had my ANP to get in with the critical care specialist or trauma docs.

They do let us do 50 hrs of specialty in the program (outside of family and internal med) and I will be with an adult intensevist in the fall. I am excited about that!

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Specializes in ICU, ER, HH, NICU, now FNP.

Ah! Around these parts they are called ACNP, and the adult practitioners are ANP.

I'm doing a semester of ER rotations this Fall - Can't wait! A lot of FNP's in this area work in more acute settings, and so do ANP's and PNP's for that matter. I know that some of the PNP's decide to go back and get FNP certified, they have to take about a year of part time coursework I believe. There is an ENP (emergency) at UT Arlington in this area. If I like ER that much I may go do a post grad there...but I will probably just save my money and energy for the DNP in all honesty.

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Is PNP primary care nurse practitioner?

I have also thought about the DNP route and forgetting the post-masters. From what I have seen, FNPs can usually go into any area once they graduate. I guess I am just getting a little discouraged since all my clinicals have been in family practice (duh, FNP program, I guess I should have expected that, LOL!)...I just miss ICU soooo much!!

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Specializes in ICU, ER, HH, NICU, now FNP.

PNP = Pediatric

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