Any NP interest in an EM residency?

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Thinking of starting an EM residency for PA's at our institution, and have gotten a few inquiries from NP's in our department about the ability for NP's to complete it. I'm not aware of any NP residencies, and if there are, what kind of accreditation would be needed, and would there be any interest in the general NP community in completing one?

Thoughts?

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

I am an adult health CNS who works part time in an ER. What type of residency are you envisioning? How long? Pay or cost? And...finally, what state are you located? Thanks.

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Specializes in CT ICU, OR, Orthopedic.

I think specialty residencies are a great idea and should be a requirement for certain areas (critical care, ER, Surgery etc) even though my clinical is focused in critical care, I think a residency would be better, especially for DNP. Unfortunately I have no say.

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Currently there are a hand ful of residencies available for nurse practitioners. The two national accrediting bodies for nursing education donot give approval for a residency so no real approval would be required.

If this was going to be used as a eligibility mechnaism for ACNP certification the institution would need to be accredited by CCNE or the NLN. If it is just to provide documented training and clinical experience that headache would not be required.

I think more residencies for specilty training is a good move for NP/PA careers. I have been considering creating one in my specilty area, if you would like to talk about this off line let me know.

Jeremy

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I am an adult health CNS who works part time in an ER. What type of residency are you envisioning? How long? Pay or cost? And...finally, what state are you located? Thanks.

It would be at Mayo Clinic in the Department of Emergency Medicine. We are envisioning at least, 1-2 PA's and NP's to start, stipend of approximately 40,000 per year, all educational expenses covered. Rotations through ALL areas of the ED, including critical care, and psych. Rotations with other services as well, including Trauma surgery, Ortho, Ortho Hand, Spine, and ICU. Lectures every week, and LOTS of patients. That's a very rough blueprint. We are working with the Baylor Army EM residency program and getting a lot more data from them.

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Might want to look at Emory they combine FNP with EM tract....

Went to one of their introduction programs: Expensive but interesting but sounds like they will bend over backwards to help those who are in their programs.

Nope I am not an Emory person :-)

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It would be at Mayo Clinic in the Department of Emergency Medicine. We are envisioning at least, 1-2 PA's and NP's to start, stipend of approximately 40,000 per year, all educational expenses covered. Rotations through ALL areas of the ED, including critical care, and psych. Rotations with other services as well, including Trauma surgery, Ortho, Ortho Hand, Spine, and ICU. Lectures every week, and LOTS of patients. That's a very rough blueprint. We are working with the Baylor Army EM residency program and getting a lot more data from them.

Wow, it makes my mouth water.......! I think you would definitely get some interest.

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we've also talked about enacting something similar to the baylor-em residency that awards a clinical doctorate. a dsc degree at completion. here is their curriculum, and some info.

http://www.paeaonline.org/index.php?ht=a/getdocumentaction/i/60863

you can see that it is a very thorough and comprehensive clinical curriculum with several thousand hours of clinical patient care. also, a pretty thorough intense medically based curriculum with testing.

we have thought about offering something similar here.

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Now that is an interesting program.... "thorough and comprehensive clinical curriculum" in 18 months it would be intense...

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Now that is an interesting program.... "thorough and comprehensive clinical curriculum" in 18 months it would be intense...

It is, if you read the attachment with the link, and look at the program. You pretty much get the smack down for those 18 months.

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It is, if you read the attachment with the link, and look at the program. You pretty much get the smack down for those 18 months.

The clinical time is 5600 hours during that time and the didactic is 516 if I remember correctly. It works out to around 85 hours per week.

David Carpenter, PA-C

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The clinical time is 5600 hours during that time and the didactic is 516 if I remember correctly. It works out to around 85 hours per week.

David Carpenter, PA-C

yeah, that is a clinical doctorate for sure.

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