ACNP sans experience?

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

Someone please tell me that I misread a post that ACNP programs are now accepting students with no acute care RN experience.

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Uh I hope not Jules. However, nothing surprises me anymore about nursing education or rather the lack of it.

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Specializes in Critical Care and ED.

As someone who is in the middle of an ICU rotation, I can comfortable say that there's no way anyone without acute experience could survive 5 minutes in the ICU.

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.
As someone who is in the middle of an ICU rotation, I can comfortable say that there's no way anyone without acute experience could survive 5 minutes in the ICU.

No doubt but...

https://allnurses.com/student-nurse-practitioner/am-i-doing-1176515.html

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Specializes in OB.

Hasn't that been the case for some time? Columbia comes to mind, they have direct-entry programs for a whole slew of APNs, including acute care.

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.
Hasn't that been the case for some time? Columbia comes to mind, they have direct-entry programs for a whole slew of APNs, including acute care.

Thanks, I was not aware of that. I thought CNMs, CRNAs and ACNPs still had admission standards.

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Specializes in OB.
Thanks, I was not aware of that. I thought CNMs, CRNAs and ACNPs still had admission standards.

Don't get me wrong, I agree it's insane. I assume, as Rocknurse says, that anyone without ICU experience would flounder in an ICU, making me wonder why a person would pursue a direct-entry ACNP program in the first place.

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Specializes in Critical Care and ED.

Oy :banghead:

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It's all down to money. Most ACNP programs still require experience, but there are some cropping up that do not. Schools want money. The CCNE and ACEN couldn't give a d*mn about the state of NP education. So what do we expect. NPs are a dime a dozen now.

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im sure the nursing propaganda machine will soon produce a study that says day 1 direct entry acute care NPs are > to pulm/cc board certed physicians

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.
im sure the nursing propaganda machine will soon produce a study that says day 1 direct entry acute care NPs are > to pulm/cc board certed physicians

Thanks I spewed coffee all over my screen - lol

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Specializes in Hospitalist Medicine.

I can't imagine anyone being successful in a true ACNP program without having prior critical care experience. It is such a STEEP learning curve! And having never been at the bedside as an RN in a critical care role, to jump into ACNP? To me, that's just a recipe for disaster. You really need that solid foundation first.

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