Anyone heard you are going to need ACNP to work in hospitals?? Help!

[traumaRUs]

hi everyone. currently i'm an adult health cns working in a large nephrology practice with three fnps. part of our job is to spend the weekends doing hospital call where we do consults, h&ps, discharged summaries and generally seeing patients. i am now hearing that in order to work in the hospitals, you will need an acnp versus the fnp that my peers have. has anyone else heard this and can you please refer me to a source? also, i live in il and is this going to be state specific? thanks in advance for any assistance - i really appreciate it.

[traumaRUs, MSN, APRN]

Thanks PinoyNP - that explains a lot. I too wouldn't use that. We aren't even required to have ACLS and the other NPs that I work with have never worked in hospitals - only outpatient facilities.

[maikranz]

TraumaRUs, it is very similar in format to TNCC and ENPC if you remember that from our staff ER nurse days. It is a 2-day course. If you are interested in it, check the Society of Critical Care Medicine website for course locations and schedules.

Hello, I've been at work! I think you're right, pinoy. I had heard about it at a continuing ed program I'd attended and thought that it might be worthwhile if I ever chose to work with someone who required me to take call :trout: . I decided against it for myself, but put it out on the forum for y'all to see. I looked back at my 1st post and mea culpa, please change "will" to "may".