Hospital and fellowship preference? ANCC vs AANP

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Hi! 

Nurse practitioners who currently work in the hospital or have been selected for hospital fellowships following graduation...was there a preference by your employer to be ANCC or AANP board certified? My goal is to apply to new graduate fellowships and I want to take the correct exam to increase my chances of being accepted. I've read that ANCC is prefered in the hospital setting for NPs...can anyone verify if that is true?

Thank you in advance!

 

 

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

Hi,

I do not work in the hospital setting but as long as you are board certified I would not think it matters. Any job that you apply will say you will need to be board certified but either ANCC or AANP, it never specifies one over the other. But I can tell what the difference is about the ANCC test vs the AANP test.

The ANCC exam has ethics and nursing research questions included where the AANP exam does not. The AANP is only clinical scenario questions, no ethics or research. I chose the AANP certification for that reason, I really dislike ethics and research. Plus, I also didn't have to study ethics and research for the AANP exam...... LOL.

Hope this helps a little!

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Well AANP doesn't do ACNP last time I checked. FNPs rarely get jobs in the hospital let alone fellowships now.

I did ANCC

You should be more focused on making sure you are in a ACNP program and not FNP

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