ENP?

[nurse4life4ever]

I'd like to work in urgent care as an NP. However, I have no acute care RN experience. Finished my FNP. Shall I pursue ENP program?

Anyone in ENP program can shed some lights please? Do you think it's worth the investment if all I want to do is urgent care/fast track ER only?

Thanks!

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN]

Our ED group hires FNPs for fast track with experience ranging from med/surg to ICU to ED. Some of our own have gone on to work at urgent cares. I've known career med/surg nurses who got multiple urgent care offers right out of school. If you have your FNP, just go right ahead and apply. You'll either get offers you weren't expecting or you'll know whether more experience is worth pursuing.

Every FNP you just stated has acute care experience. That's a big difference than someone with no acute care experience fresh out of school.

[Guest374845]

Every FNP you just stated has acute care experience. That's a big difference than someone with no acute care experience fresh out of school.

Hence my last statement. She lacks their experience, but applying around is probably worth trying in order to guage whether potential employers feel the way we do. However I agree with the OP that there is didactic and clinical time inherent in a reputable FNP program enough to graduate providers who are competent enough to fill an urgent care opening. And if she's completely unqualified, she either won't get the job.... or she will and will send everything to the ED anyway like all the NPs and PAs around here lol

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN]

.... or she will and will send everything to the ED anyway like all the NPs and PAs around here lol

:laugh: :laugh: