States have not required a DNP to be certified as an NP. What is happening is that schools of nursing have been phasing out MS or MSN programs and making the DNP the only degree offered leading to NP...
Corey Narry replied to pixielated's topic in General Nursing
Not a case manager here. One way our CMs help in the ICU is when a patient who is in the ICU in our tertiary referral center needs to be transferred back to the referring hospital still requiring ICU...
Out of curiosity, what would be the benefit of a PhD to DNP program? other than a nurse with a PhD who is not an APN but wanting to gain the ability to practice as an NP by going through a DNP...
That seems odd. Majority of states (except perhaps less than a handful) require national certification to practice so being nationally-certified makes it easy to endorse to another state. In a lot of...
Any updates from applicants? saw a colleague who works in a different in-patient specialty and was told that application went through but this NP is having a tough time getting collaborating physician...
If you like the OR, you can be a first assist (RNFA) without having to be an NP. If you want to work as an NP who also functions as an RNFA then it's a good idea to do both. I think you can start now...
One of the NP's in an in-patient specialty is applying...I posted a similar question in another thread and didn't get a response. I'll update once I hear from this
We have been discussing this in our institution (we have a separate APP advisory board independent of physicians). NP's in specialties can apply for 103 status. All this affords us is the ability to...
I work as an NP at a university hospital that is part of a larger health sciences campus with Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Dentistry programs all at the graduate level. Within the medical center...
I think that's unfortunately not unheard of in non-union settings. In such cases, one would hope a manager would care enough about all employees to not allow this. Unfortunately this non-transparency...
Could you talk to PMHNP program directors and ask if you can be a candidate to their program? Just as an anecdote, I'm an ACNP with over 20 years of experience in Critical Care and now in Cardiology...