Advanced Nursing is often considered less rigorous than Medicine even though Nursing is it's own profession. Of course there's overlap. Do you think it's because nursing doesn't require the same rigorous premed perquisites?Osteopathic medicine use to be regarded the same well, but now it is equivalent to allopathic medicine. Do you think requiring the premed prerequisite curriculum (eg: PA, DO, MD prereqs) to gain entry to advanced practice will better prepare advanced practice nursing clinicians?
Specializes in ICU, Telemetry, Cardiac/Renal, Ortho,FNP.
In a word....YES!!! I had the pre-med undergrad and same basic sciences as medical/osteo and now NP. NP's COULD BENEFIT GREATLY from a better science background. However, if you go to all that trouble then you should just apply to med school b/c that would make it twice as much work to become an NP. Now, if you are talking about "replacing" coursework with science then I'm all for it. If MD/DO/PA's don't have to do a bunch of research courses I really don't see how that benefits NP's to harp on that area in lieu of basic sciences. In clinical sciences it was said many times and I would agree...we just don't have good differential diagnosis skills and practice. We "talk" about it but in practice we aren't drilled on it. It's more OJT in NP world vs MD/DO/PA world.
Natasha A., CNA, LVN
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