CRNP/Experience

Published Sep 22, 2009

10 Posts

I graduate with my BSN in May and I'm trying to decide what/where I'm going to go to school/work. I'm pretty sure I want to be a Nurse Practitioner and am trying to decide whether I should work for a year or two or go ahead and get a job, but start my prereqs part time. This way I would have about a years experience before starting clinicals at least. I've talked to CRNP's that are all for getting at least 2 years experience before going back to school, while I've found others that have encouraged me to jump right in. There's a good CRNP school nearby that doesn't require any experience. My main concern is that I've heard CRNP's are going to have to get their DNP starting in 2012 and I'm just not sure that I would want to have to go to school for that long before I could practice as a CRNP if I could go straight through right now. (Not that I wouldn't be interested in going back for my DNP later on.)

First of all, is this DNP requirement starting in 2012 true? or is it a might happen?

And would I have to just begin school before then or would I have to be finished?

What do you think I should do?

Thanks!