FNP or AGNP

[Nurse8486]

Hello fellow nurses,

I am currently enrolled in a nurse practitioner program. If I take four classes next semester I am able to graduate Spring 2015 with my AGNP. I plan to graduate, take my AGNP boards and begin work (fingers crossed). Then, I would go back to school Fall 2015 and get a post-masters FNP. The reason for choosing AGNP is that I would be wasting time from May until January waiting to finish the pediatric/maternity courses. The issue I am having is that I have to take two certification exams within 6 months of each other. I do not want to work with children, but I want the FNP to be more marketable.

I am so confused on what to do!

Any ideas??!!!

Thank you!!

[Dranger]

I was actually replying to a previous post that listed ER and hospitalist. Our hospitalist group only uses ACNPs. There are a few family medicine programs out there that admit adults and kids to the same family medicine floor (in some relatively large urban or suburban hospitals). ACNP or ANP would have a problem there also just like most ERs which don't have a separate peds ER.

I was specifically targeting the hospitalist part, I understand the problem with working in the ED as a ACNP.

To me the obvious gold standard for adult populations in the hospital would be an ACNP.