Call me Naive..

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I went to the nursingschools.com website, and I have been trying to find information about becoming an Emergency Nurse Practitioner. It sounds really exciting to me, and it pays pretty good as far as I know. I am pretty good under stress so that isn't a problem...and I also have been around the ER enough to become familiar to a lot of it :rolleyes: , hehe.

Anyway, my question has to do with the fact that after typing in "emergency NP" in the search box on the website, only one school in Chicago appeared to offer the program. I am pretty sure there are many ER NPs out there who didn't receive their education in Chicago. Am I right or not?

So how does one go about becoming an Emergency Nurse Practitioner? Is there even a program specifically for it besides the Chicago one? Or is it just based on experience?

Thanks to anyone who can shed some light on this subject.

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Emergency rooms around here hire NP's without special training.

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They may also be known as Acute Care NPs.

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Texas has one...I believe it's at the University of Texas at Houston.

The Chicago program is the only other ER NP program I know of.

Acute Care NP is a little different. A lot of ERs where I live hire Family NP's.

Something one of my nursing school instructors told me was that if you become a nurse practitioner, you should get something more general, like family NP...because if you get too specialized, it's hard to find a job.

I've been a nurse for two years now (hard to believe!), and I'm planning on going back either this fall or the following spring to start working on my MSN. I'm a little torn between FNP and ACNP, but leaning more towards the FNP program.

I'll check and see if I can get some links for you about the Texas program...

Good luck! :)

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Here ya go! :)

University of Texas at Houston School of Nursing webpage http://sonser4.nur.uth.tmc.edu/

MSN programs

http://sonser4.nur.uth.tmc.edu/sao/msn.htm

Emergency programs

http://sonser4.nur.uth.tmc.edu/emergency/

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Specializes in pre hospital, ED, Cath Lab, Case Manager.

I believe Widner University in Chester PA and the University of Delaware have advanced degrees in ER nursing.

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Specializes in ER, Hospice, CCU, PCU.

Our ER has started using both Family practice NP's and Pediatric NP's usually in the Fast tract area.

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